The article examines new approaches to the application of liability in case non-payment child support under agreement parents on maintenance their joint minor children. legal nature and peculiarities family law Ukraine are investigated. Considerable attention is paid issues determining conditions for alimony, form amount maintenance, performance termination agreement, recovery penalties arrears...

Parties who cause harm to others may sometimes turn out to be ‘judgment proof,’ that is, unable to pay fully the amount for which they have been found legally liable.’ This possibility is an important and realistic one. Certainly individuals may readily be imagined to cause personal injury or property damage resulting in judgments that exceed their assets plus any liability insurance coverage; ...

We compare the performance of liability rules for managing environmental disasters when third parties are harmed and cannot always be compensated. A firm can invest in safety to reduce the likelihood of accidents. The firm’s investment is unobservable to authorities. Externality and asymmetric information call for public intervention to define rules aimed at increasing prevention. We determine ...

economic analysis of law is a new approach in law that emerged in the early 1960's and its main purpose is managing the rules of the legal system in a way to achieve economic efficiency. this approach has been influential in all the areas of law including the law of civil liability and follows to set up the compensation system based on some principles to minimize the costs resulting from damage...

P A M E L A R . D . W I L L I A M S , * , † D A N I E L I N M A N , ‡ A N D Y A D E N , ‡ A N D G A R V I N A . H E A T H § E Risk Sciences, LLP, 4647 Carter Trail, Boulder, Colorado 80301, National BioEnergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado, and Strategic Energy Analysis Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden...

It was in December 2002, and Peter Sullivan, partner in charge of the audit engagement at Softnet Systems was becoming uneasy with their client’s accounting practices. Peter was a partner at John Sanders LLP, a global public accounting firm that had been appointed as the new auditors of Softnet. Although the firm was a new client to John Sanders LLP, Peter’s firm regarded Softnet as a very impo...

This article summarizes several Canadian court decisions from 2015 onward stemming wrongful birth and life litigation. Plaintiff success often turns on whether causation is established, a balance of probabilities, between physician’s breach standard care the harm to parents and/or child later born. Physicians’ failure offer or order screening diagnostic tests has been source liability, as too c...