Family Law
Family Law News Issue 4, 2014, Volume 36, No. 4
Content
- Background in family therapy grounds 2014 Aranda award winner
- Dire Warnings!!! From the Superfluous to the Sublime
- Disclosure Requirements for Offshore Assets in Divorce
- Dr. Margaret Little Receives State Bar of California's 2014 Court Staff Award
- Family Law Attorney Receives Top State Bar Legal Services Award
- Family Law News
- Family Law Section Executive Committee
- In this Issue:
- International Prenuptial Agreements: Necessary But Dangerous
- Judge Gary Gibson of Shasta County receives the 2014 Family Law Judicial Officer of the Year Award
- Message from the Chair:
- New Online Parenting After Separation Course
- Standing Chairs and Designated Recipients of Legislation
- Trapped Abroad - the Uccjea in International Cases and the Need for an Expansive Application of the Escape Clause
- Message from the Editor:
Message from the Editor:
Naghmeh Bashar, Executive Editor
The World is an Increasingly Small Place
In the last three years since I temporarily relocated to China, I have seen a growth in the expats from around the world who arrive to China for work. Many western companies have headquarters here and are also expanding to other parts of the world, such as India, Ethiopia, Dubai, and many other countries that offer financial rewards.
More importantly, the number of American expats and their families are increasing rapidly in this region. Expats’ children are born in these foreign countries, or if born in the United States, they have now relocated to the foreign countries, attend international schools, and adapt to the foreign cultures. Under certain circumstances, their parents may be bound to these countries’ jurisdiction and laws. Many expats also marry citizens of these countries and establish families. Some choose to remain in the foreign country indefinitely while maintaining assets and debts in the United States as well as in several other countries, and some choose to move back to the United States, bringing with them their new family while maintaining assets in the foreign country.