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Same-Sex Marriages, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships

Same-Sex Marriages

Although many people interchange the terms same-sex marriage and civil union, they are actually two different and distinct concepts. A same-sex marriage is defined as a marriage between two...

An Overview of Abortion

Abortion is a controversial topic in the United States. An abortion is defined as the spontaneous inducement that results in the expulsion of a fetus. There are statistics that support the contention that 40% of all women will have an abortion at...

Bigamy

Bigamy is the act of marrying one person while legally married to another and is a criminal offense when it is knowingly committed. Bigamy is the wilful contracting of a second marriage when the contracting party knows that the first is still...

Civil Harassment

Civil Harassment vs. Domestic Violence

Domestic violence cases involve a special relationship between the parties. The special relationship may be created by:

(1) a family relationship, such as...

International Divorce and Foreign Divorce Decrees

With many people living and working abroad after being married in the United States international divorce is becoming more of a common practice. International divorce cases may be very complex due to the laws of the country in which the parties...