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		<title>Leveling the Playing Field:  New Divorce and Transgender Rights Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Equal Opportunity Alimony Male chauvinists may now have a reason to praise feminism. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, Divorce courts mirror society as more women pay alimony, although there is a widespread belief that Family Courts in modern times are pro-woman and anti-male, any such gender discrimination is normally illegal. However, many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/leveling-the-playing-field-new-divorce-and-transgender-rights-update-2</link>
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		<title>Pittfalls of a sudden prenup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, the Nebraska Supreme Court tossed out a prenuptial agreement that a central Nebraska judge earlier ruled had turned the bride into an &#8220;indentured servant.&#8221; The prenup was signed by the bride just five days before the wedding amidst pressure that if she did not sign, the wedding would be called off. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/pittfalls-of-a-sudden-prenup</link>
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		<title>Transgender Immigration to the US Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued an interim memorandum declaring they will now issue immigration documents that reflect an individual&#8217;s gender identity as long as the individual presents a corrected birth certificate, passport or court order recognizing their new gender. USCIS has also stated that it will also approve green-card petitions by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/transgender-immigration-to-the-us</link>
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		<title>Wednesday News Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Prostitutes Attempt to Curb Condom Confiscation Sex worker advocates in New York are pushing state authorities to prohibit police officers from using condoms as evidence during prostitution investigations. The rights groups argue that prostitutes are being discouraged from carrying or using condoms because police officers frequently confiscate the items during prostitution investigations, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Tax? No Passport.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our coverage of the continuing clampdown on expatriate Americans by the US government and the IRS, a new bill currently in Congress proposes that passports of US Citizens be revoked based on unpaid debts. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proposed the State Department have the right to revoke, deny or limit passports for anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/no-tax-no-passport</link>
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		<title>CIA and Colombian  Prostitutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dios Mio! As the weekend unfolded, so did what will perhaps be known as the biggest scandal in the history of the United States Secret Service. While preparing for President Barack Obama’s arrival at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, 11 Secret Service agents allegedly brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms. Apparently, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/cia-and-colombian-prostitutes</link>
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		<title>Getting Got: Jewish Divorce, Chained Wives, and Husbands on the Run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As any family lawyer can attest, divorces are at the best of times unpleasant, and at the worst of times experiences that can be likened to getting teeth pulled – without Novocain. Unfortunately for a small subset of Orthodox Jewish women known as “agunot”, this disagreeable experience is one that might last for years or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/getting-got-jewish-divorce-chained-wives-and-husbands-on-the-run</link>
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		<title>Prostitution Here, There, and Everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada Prepares for Landmark Prostitution Ruling Canadian courts are preparing to publish their decision on the legality of three stringent anti-prostitution laws. The laws in question dictate pimping, communicating for the purposes of prostitution, and maintaining a brothel, and declaring these laws illegal would decriminalize prostitution in certain cases. Opponents of the anti-prostitution laws claim that the laws endanger sex workers rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/prostitution-here-there-and-everywhere</link>
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		<title>Pink Slime: Another Piece of the MSG-filled, Aspartame-laden Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Pink slime” has been in the news lately, after several reports focused the general public’s attention on the widespread use of highly texturized, ammonia-treated beef trimmings (know informally as “pink slime”) as a filler in up to 70% ofAmerica’s ground beef supply. The controversial filler has been found in grocery store, fast food restaurants, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/pink-slime-another-piece-of-the-msg-filled-aspartame-laden-pie</link>
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		<title>Girl Returned to Mother After Thailand Abduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Syracuse, New York child has been returned to her family after being abducted by her father and taken to Thailand five years ago. Her wayward parent, furthermore, was arrested in Bangkok on International Child Abduction charges and was extradited back to the US. The case has brought to light a number of misconceptions and misunderstandings [...]]]></description>
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