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“Precocious girls” : age of consent, class and family in late nineteenth-century England [PDF]
, 2020 A fixed legal age of consent is used to determine when a person has the capacity to consent to sex yet in the late Victorian period the idea became a vehicle through which to address varied social concerns, from child prostitution and child sexual abuse ...
Lammasniemi, Laura
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The Facts About Applying: Health Care Coverage and the Affordable Care Act
EDIS, 2013 President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010, putting in place a set of reforms to health coverage in the United States. For Americans who have health insurance, they do not have to change their current plan under the health ...
Meg McAlpine, Martie Gillen
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Inheritance in sharia law with an overview of the position of illegitimate children [PDF]
Strani pravni život, 2022 Classical sharia systems in which the classical Sharia is formally equated with the national law exist in a very small number of today's states. In these states, the ruler can publish and change laws in some legal domains, but traditional religious ...
Čović Ana V., Stjepanović Bogdana M.
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Reforming Defences to Homicide in Victoria: Another Attempt to Address the Gender Question
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2017 In 2005 in the Australian state of Victoria, significant changes were made to the defences to homicide. These reforms were in response to long standing concerns about the gendered operation of provocation and self-defence by feminist researchers and ...
Bronwyn Naylor, Danielle Tyson
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Family & Law, 2019 This article considers the social practice of intentional ‘plus-two-parent families’ as seen from a legal policy standpoint in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Nola Cammu
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Enfranchised Minors: Women as People in the Middle East after the 2011 Arab Uprisings
Laws, 2017 The civic status of female citizens in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is conceptualized as “enfranchised minorhood” which reflects the confined position of adult women as legal minors under the trusteeship of male kin in family law ...
Rania Maktabi
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The legal position of women following the Family Law reforms
Feminismo/s, 2006 This article seeks to present a brief history of the legal position of women within the field of Family Law. From this standpoint, the limitation of women’s autonomy compared to that of men, as established in our previous legislation, can clearly be ...
María Luisa Vallés Amores
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Arrangement and Dynamication of Family Law Updating in Indonesia
, 2020 In Indonesia, family law is well regulated in law or government regulations. In this case, with the increasingly complex family law issues supported by divorce rates, which reached 398,245 in 2015, then in 2017, it increased to 415,898, and with the ...
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Reform of Serbian family law [PDF]
Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2006 This paper examines solutions introduced by the new Serbian Family Act. It underlines the fact that the law significantly took in consideration European and international conventions and opinions of the European Court of Human Rights in family law matters.
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RUSSIAN FAMILY LAW LEGISLATION: REVOLUTION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION, EVOLUTION
BRICS Law Journal, 2017 This article analyzes the political and legal aspects of the first decrees of the Soviet government from 1917 and the codified acts on marriage and family from 1918 and 1926 as large and small “revolutions” in Russian and Soviet family law.
NADEZHDA TARUSINA, ELENA ISAEVA
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