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Category Archives: Marriage

Mummies and Daddies

March 8, 2010 – 11:47 am

I was interested to read today that a woman has failed in her legal bid to stop her former partner from encouraging their six-year-old daughter to call his new partner “Mummy D”. Unfortunately the judgment doesn’t seem to be available online yet.
[The mother] said encouraging the term of endearment was ”an incendiary action” by her [...]

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Jacob’s Ladder

March 5, 2010 – 6:52 am

It was all polite smiles and meticulous protocol as Jacob Zuma met the Queen yesterday afternoon. But just hours before he left for his state visit to Britain, South Africa’s flamboyant President revealed what he really thought of his hosts.
In an astonishing interview given shortly before he boarded his flight to London, Mr Zuma launched [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Australian internet filter, England, Events, Funnies, Media, Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Forgiveness is overrated

January 25, 2010 – 11:13 pm

One of the advantages of being a skeptic is that you don’t have to reject positions articulated by religious figures just because you think they believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden, but also because you think that core chunks of their doctrine — including bits often regarded as wholly good and reasonable [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, Feminism, Politics, anthony daniels | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (49)

O Mistress Mine!

November 9, 2009 – 8:05 pm

I was fascinated to see that the first case under the new s 4AA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) has been settled out of court. According to the recent article in the Herald Sun:
A cheating husband has paid his former lover more than $100,000 under Australia’s new “mistress laws”.
In the first known case [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Economics, Equity, Law, Personal liberty, Public Policy | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (27)

Sometimes you get the bear (sometimes the bear gets you)

November 9, 2009 – 7:16 pm

Muslim militants in Kashmir have been having a hard old time of it lately. Having learnt the hard way that No really does mean NO (even when attempting marriage by capture)…
Three militants stormed into Rukhsana Kauser’s home in a remote village in Jammu region on Monday and started beating her parents in front of [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Fark!, Funnies, Science, Terrorism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

The more the merrier?

October 5, 2009 – 9:41 pm

Keysar Trad has written an article in The Age today calling for Australians to reconsider their attitudes to polygyny (where a man has multiple wives). He says:
Who someone marries first is an accident of history. If a man who has an affair had met his mistress before his wife, he may have married her. Why [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Feminism | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (58)

Libertarian Writing Bleg

April 23, 2009 – 7:40 pm

As a few people around the place know, I’m currently writing a novel. I’d originally had grand plans of getting it finished before starting at Oxford in 2007, but that didn’t happen. It does look likely that it’ll be finished by the end of this year, however, which is both a great relief and slightly [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Drugs, Economics, History, Law, Politics, Taxation | Comments (40)

The Amazing Disappearing Assets

March 12, 2009 – 2:19 pm

Anyone who has a superannuation fund or the like has probably watched their assets drop in value to a massive degree over the last year or so. Right now I’m glad I don’t have my money tied up in shares.
The drop has been so sharp that it has produced some interesting legal problems. Take, for [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law, Restitution | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

Law of unintended consequences…

March 1, 2009 – 3:28 pm

Laws designed to allow same-sex and de facto couples to access the Family Court on an equal basis to married heterosexual couples may have unintended consequences, it seems.
The amendment inserted a new definition of “de facto relationship” in s 4AA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth):
Meaning of de facto relationship
(1) A person is in a [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law, Religion, anthony daniels | Tagged , , , | Comments (61)

Only in Japan…

October 30, 2008 – 5:59 pm

A Japanese man has reportedly started a petition to allow marriage between real people and two-dimensional cartoon characters. Cartoon books or manga are immensely popular in Japan, as are anime or cartoon movies. Some people are totally obsessed with them (manga otaku or anime otaku). Hence there have been many signatories to the petition.
I must [...]

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