Sentences with phrase «voluntary agreements between»

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.

ILUAs are voluntary agreements between native title groups and others about the use and management of land and waters.

These are private, voluntary agreements between a landowner and a conservation organisation, which enable the landowner to pass on their property in the knowledge that its special features will continue to be protected.

Finally, voluntary agreements between businesses, policymakers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as the Soy Moratorium in Brazil, have proved to be a promising approach.

Only voluntary agreements between municipalities will be included, she said.

The legislation, called PROMESA, would create a federal oversight board to help Puerto Rico governments balance their budgets, improve financial reporting and facilitate debt restructuring when voluntary agreements between creditors and borrowers can not be reached.

The law provides a statewide definition of affirmative consent, defining it as «a clear, unambiguous and voluntary agreement between the participants to engage in specific sexual activity.»

In Cuomo's original budget language, «affirmative consent» was described as «a clear, unambiguous, knowing, informed and voluntary agreement between all participants to engage in sexual activity.»

A debt management plan is not a legal procedure — it is a voluntary agreement between you and your creditors.

In order for there to be a duty of a doctor or other medical professional to provide care to a patient, there must generally exist some form of voluntary agreement between the doctor and the patient.

Currently, changing the configuration of bargaining units generally requires the voluntary agreement between a bargaining unit and the employer, rather than being decided by the OLRB.

The Plan is a voluntary agreement between the state and all auto insurers licensed in Vermont.

Family and divorce mediation is a process in which a mediator, an impartial third party, facilitates the resolution of family disputes by promoting a voluntary agreement between participants.

A «Parenting Plan» is a voluntary agreement between you and your child's other parent about arrangements for your children.

Not exact matches

Provides a framework that facilitates the voluntary negotiation of mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) between Canadian competent authorities / professional bodies and their counterparts in TPP countries.

Between 2007 and 2012 this voluntary agreement, together with WRAP's internationally - renowned Love Food Hate Waste campaign, helped reduce packaging and food waste by more than 3 million tonnes, reducing carbon emissions by over 8 million tonnes.

Growing the voluntary irtec Licensing Scheme that ensures the competence of commercial vehicle technicians is the aim of a new agreement between the IRTE (a professional sector of the Society of Operations Engineers (SOE)-RRB- and the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), this is the government - recognised Sector Skills Council for the industry.

The currently voluntary «no strike» agreement was reached between the government and prison officers in 2005 after then home secretary David Blunkett repealed a legal ban introduced by Michael Howard in 1994.

«The voluntary agreement reached this weekend between beverage distributors and the State Liquor Authority is an important first step toward permanently removing alcoholic energy drinks from the marketplace.

A contract is a voluntary arrangement between two or more parties that is enforceable by law as a binding legal agreement.

The Service shall conduct any hearings with respect to any such complaint in executive session, and shall not release any testimony given therein except by agreement of all parties involved in the complaint with the permission of the court, and the Service shall endeavor to bring about a voluntary settlement between the parties.

An individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) is a legal agreement between you and your creditors to pay part of what you owe.

An individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) is a formal agreement, between you and your creditors, to pay back part of what you owe over a set period (usually five years).

An individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) is a legal agreement between you and your creditors to pay back as much as you can, usually over five years.

You are working for a foreign affiliate of a U.S. employer under a voluntary agreement that was entered between the U.S. employer and the U.S. Treasury Department

An individual voluntary arrangement, or IVA, is a form of insolvency that amounts to a legally binding agreement between you and your creditors, via an insolvency practitioner, involving a set repayment plan.

An interline agreement is a voluntary commercial agreement between individual airlines to handle passengers traveling on itineraries that may include both airlines.

The line between what's voluntary and what's mandatory can be hazy when it comes to environmental agreements, and enforcement is somewhat soft.

As we have seen above, the commitments made according to the Copenhagen Accord and Cancun agreements that have been ratified by the Cancun agreements leave at the very minimum a 5Gt gap between emissions levels that will be achieved if there is full compliance with the voluntary emissions reductions and what is necessary to prevent 2 °C rise, a warming amount that most scientists believe could cause very dangerous climate change.

However, there is a disconnect between where science says we need to be and how far the Paris Agreement will take us, and the voluntary carbon market is crucial in bridging the gap on the global goal of a 2 °C limit.

(4) After April 30, 1978, where an affiliated bargaining agent obtains bargaining rights through certification or voluntary recognition in respect of employees employed in the industrial, commercial and institutional sector of the construction industry referred to in the definition of «sector» in section 126, the employer, the affiliated bargaining agent, and the employees for whom the affiliated bargaining agent has obtained bargaining rights are bound by the provincial agreement made between an employee bargaining agency representing the affiliated bargaining agent and an employer bargaining agency representing a provincial unit of employers in which the employer would have been included.

The court held that a settlement agreement between an Irish ISP, Eircom, and owners of copyright protected sound recordings and videos to implement a voluntary graduated response system was compatible with Irish data protection legislation.

A postnuptial agreement is a voluntary marriage contract between spouses that is created after they are legally married.

(These are voluntary and legally binding agreements that are made between one or more groups, and others, about the use and management of land or waters.)

«a process in which a mediator facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute.»

For purposes of the QDP, «Mediation» is defined as: «a process in which a mediator facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute.»

At the state level, voluntary agreements or compacts between tribal authorities and state governments cover a wide range of key social and economic issues including environmental protection, criminal jurisdiction, traffic and safety, child protection and education.

Comprehensive primary health care services provide the infrastructure, and the Framework Agreements the partnership arrangements for intersectoral collaboration between the health sector, members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, other government agencies, the private sector and voluntary organisations.

The Court noted that under the agreement to arbitrate there were two basic questions: (1) whether a contract arising from membership in a voluntary association constitutes a contract between the members; and (2) whether a member of such an association, who has agreed to be bound by its bylaws, is bound by amendments made thereafter.

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This method described in Part Eleven of this Manual may also be utilized for the conduct of arbitration between Board Members of different Boards of different states, subject to the parties» voluntary agreement in advance to accept the place, date, and time established for a hearing by the arbitration panel chosen in accordance with prescribed procedures, and to pay all costs of such arbitration as may be directed by the panel, and further subject to applicable state law of the respective states regarding binding arbitration.