Studies on economic stress and marital dissolution In standard economic models of marriage,
pecuniary gains from a spouse play a central role in the assessment of fit of a relationship (Becker, Landes, & Michael, 1977; Charles & Stephens, 2004).
Not exact matches
Before the turnaround in the war to dislodge Boko Haram
from Nigerian territory however, Nigerian military went through some challenges which tested the professionalism of the armed forces amongst which were cases of soldiers deserting
from the battlefront, soldiers disobeying lawful orders, soldiers and even pilots in some cases showing sympathy to Boko Haram killers on the grounds that they practice same religion and troops donating equipment of the Nigerian military to terrorists because of
pecuniary gains.
Addressing the congregation, Fape lambasted the nation's politicians whom he said had no shame and clear cut ideology, defecting at will
from one political party to the other for what he termed self survival and
pecuniary gains.
One of the main arguments that I made for PLE is the long term
pecuniary advantage to be
gained from empowering (young) people to resolve their own legal problems before they reach the stage at which the state might need to step in and provide legal aid funded support.
Rule 7.3 (a) prevents lawyers
from soliciting prospective clients for
pecuniary gain.
In Leskun v. Leskun, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 920, at para. 29, the Court defined «means» as including «all
pecuniary resources, capital assets, income
from employment or earning capacity, and other sources
from which the person receives
gains or benefits», adopting the formulation of the traditional interpretation of «means» in Strang v. Strang, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 112, at para. 15.
The Supreme Court of Canada has interpreted «means» in the spousal support context expansively to include «all
pecuniary resources, capital assets, income
from employment or earning capacity, and other sources
from which the person receives
gains or benefits»: Strang v. Strang, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 112 at 119; Leskun v. Leskun, 2006 SCC 25 at para. 29.
The rule in most states is that one should not solicit «professional employment
from a prospective client when a significant motive for the lawyer's doing so is the lawyer's
pecuniary gain.»