Sentences with phrase «marriage in a court battle»

Only a tiny fraction of all divorce cases ever go to trial in the United States, but those spouses who end their marriage in a court battle usually part ways with a lasting hatred of each other that makes effective divorced parenting all but impossible.

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The battle is joined, and it is likely that it will figure also in the presidential election, with Senator Obama urging «respect» for the court decision and Senator McCain reiterating his support for marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Now after a four - year battle, Mr Awuku — represented by human rights barrister Zane Malik and a London - based solicitor specialising in proxy marriages — has scored a major victory at the Appeal Court which has paved the way for him to be granted residency in the UK.

Although gay marriage advocates have had the upper hand in the legal battle over the past year, the landscape changed last week when a Cincinnati - based regional federal appeals court became the first to uphold gay marriage bans.

In 2006, when the New York State Court of Appeals shamefully ruled that the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community did not have equal protection under the law in relation to Marriage Equality, I predicted that passing legislation to right this wrong in the State Senate would be a profound personal and sadly political battlIn 2006, when the New York State Court of Appeals shamefully ruled that the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community did not have equal protection under the law in relation to Marriage Equality, I predicted that passing legislation to right this wrong in the State Senate would be a profound personal and sadly political battlin relation to Marriage Equality, I predicted that passing legislation to right this wrong in the State Senate would be a profound personal and sadly political battlin the State Senate would be a profound personal and sadly political battle.

However, the recent court battles over the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which only recognizes matrimony between one man and one woman; Proposition 8, which banned same sex marriages in California; and the legalization of same sex marriages in other states and Washington, D.C., shows that culturally a debate is happening.

With Loving, writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) lionizes two such everyday heroes: Richard and Mildred Loving, whose nearly decade - long battle to legalize their interracial marriage in the state of Virginia went all the way to the Supreme Court, bringing to an end anti-miscegenation laws.

The court battle for Fella's custody shows the extent to which state battles over same - sex marriage create fissures in families and have an enduring and tragic impact on the lives of young people.

«As first noted here late last night, in today's edition of The Recorder of San Francisco, attorney Cyrus Sanai has an interesting essay entitled «Taking the Kozinski Challenge» that begins, «The fiercest battle within the federal appellate courts these days is not over abortion or gay marriage, but the arcane question of whether an attorney may cite the unpublished case law of an appellate court as the binding law of the circuit.»»

-- Reduces or even eliminates some divorce battles — Specifies how to divide business income and future income — Specifies how to handle any property one or both spouses owned independently before marrying — If one or both spouses have children from a previous marriage, specific language in a prenup helps protect those children if divorce occurs — Unlike similar agreements made after marriage (postnup agreements), a prenup holds up better in court — Sets predetermined guidelines for fair and equitable property division

In Ireland the ground for civil partnership or gay marriage had been harrowed by couples such as Katherine Zappone and Ann - Louise Gilligan, whose public appearances in their ongoing court battle for the right to an Irish marriage revealed their unthreatening, almost nunlike ordinarinesIn Ireland the ground for civil partnership or gay marriage had been harrowed by couples such as Katherine Zappone and Ann - Louise Gilligan, whose public appearances in their ongoing court battle for the right to an Irish marriage revealed their unthreatening, almost nunlike ordinarinesin their ongoing court battle for the right to an Irish marriage revealed their unthreatening, almost nunlike ordinariness.

You may be concerned about filing for divorce because heard the horror stories about the battles that happen in the court room and even though you are ready to leave your marriage you are holding back from making a decision because you are not ready to engage in all out war.

Many couples who have come to parting think that because the well of their marriage is so polluted by anger, strife and bitterness — in short, that because conflict has poisoned the marriage at its roots — a collaborative divorce can not work and traditional court battle is their only way out.

When people come to my office for the first time to discuss their Tampa Bay divorce, they are often nervous because they want to end their marriage, but they don't want to have the knock - down, drag - out court battles that they frequently hear about in the news.

Until both people in a marriage let go, they will continue to battle through the Courts.

By not going to court to battle in front of the world, they were able to keep almost all of the details of their life and marriage from the public — as well as keep the details of their settlement from the media.