Sentences with phrase «upon voluntary agreements»

Although only courts have the power to dissolve a marriage, judges look favorably upon voluntary agreements between spouses concerning property division, alimony and child custody.

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In fact, the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancun agreements allowed each nation to identify its emissions reduction commitment based upon voluntary national considerations without regard to equity.

The agreement, and the procedures it has caused CGSB to impose upon the drafting committee's working group, violate all three of the foundation principles of the process of «voluntary standardization,» created by the Standards Council of Canada Act (s. 4), and the Council's CAN - P - 1:2012 text, Program Requirements for the Accreditation of Standards Development Organizations and for the Approval of National Standards of Canada, which is treated as having the authority of a regulation created by way of the Act.

But, in that situation there would be real doubt about whether a marital agreement signed upon arrival would be truly voluntary because failing to agree to the prenup and not getting marriage as a result would result in the financee's immediate deportation and terminate a wedding that the wife had already moved half way across the world and given up everything to participate in.

It requires that the mediation process rely upon the ability of the parties to reach a voluntary, uncoerced agreement.