If a second marriage is, as is said, the triumph of hope over experience, it would seem that the growing cohort of older Americans is feeling increasingly hopeful these days.

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Upatcha v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-056-17, 12 pp.) (Harris, J.) No. 15-1270, Feb. 22, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: A citizen of Thailand facing removal after her divorce from a naturalized U.S. citizen wins remand of ...

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Sometimes you do learn interesting stuff at a CLE. Sidebar was at a CLE recently where the presenter pointed out a curious law enacted last year, providing that a “marriage may be solemnized by a Justice of the United States ...

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Written as a treatment for a daytime soap opera, it would have had many familiar elements of the art form: a former husband and wife reconciling, their deathbed wedding in a hospital room, and a legal battle over the husband’s ...

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Scott v. Murray (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-16-0136, 20 pp.) (Wanda G. Bryant, J.) Appealed from Union County District Court (Hunt Gwyn, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: A search of one county’s records did not reveal a divorce decree from defendant’s ...

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WASHINGTON — Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a statutory provision banning the recognition of same-sex marriages for federal purposes in June, business owners and their attorneys have been awaiting guidance from federal agencies as to how that ...

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<Hill v. Hill Since the parties set up their Subchapter S corporation so that the defendant-wife received a low salary and the parties received large shareholder distributions, the trial court should not have recharacterized post-separation shareholder distributions as the wife’s salary.

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Finney v. Finney The plaintiff-wife met her burden of proving two credit union accounts were marital property based on evidence that the property was acquired by the defendant-husband during the marriage, before the date of separation, and that the property was presently owned. The trial court incorrectly concluded that the wife did not meet her burden of proof.

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Mussa v. Palmer-Mussa Bound by the district court’s uncontested finding that Kareem was not authorized to perform marriage ceremonies in North Carolina. From this finding it follows that plaintiff failed to show that his marriage to defendant was bigamous because he could not demonstrate that defendant married Braswell during a marriage ceremony that met the requirements of section 51-1. As a result, the district court properly dismissed plaintiff’s annulment action.

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RALEIGH (AP) – The economy dominated the fall campaign, but leaders among North Carolina’s social conservatives believe the Republican sweep at the Legislature should finally permit a vote on a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. North Carolina is ...

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