This article presents the marital property regime of separation of assets with equalization of accrued gains, suggesting a direction for necessary reform that could increase the regime's popularity in Poland. This article also endeavors to address the usefulness of the marital property regime...

Despite the increase in cohabitation around the world, legal responses remain limited, particularly in the last several years. Yet, there are universal issues at the end of a cohabitation, particularly related to the property division between the cohabitants. This article will survey the recent...

The increasing number of unmarried couples living together is a worldwide trend. Simultaneously social attitudes toward cohabitation have changed even in countries such as Poland, in which such form of relationships was not popular during many decades. At present around 3 per cent of Poles...

This chapter adapts the Coffee bonding theory to the modern context of bitcoin, using tax as a case study. As the theory predicts, tax authorities may be able to increase the legitimacy of bitcoin by improving tax compliance and reducing tax evasion. Thus, while the Coffee theory arose two...

Family law litigants have long searched for permutations of constitutional principles that gain access to federal courts. Typically, such litigants have been most successful with due process and equal protection arguments — even at the expense of the venerable “best interests of the child”...

In June 2010, the United States Supreme Court handed down a highly anticipated trilogy of decisions that altered white-collar criminal law by restricting the honest-services provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1346, to bribes and kickbacks. This development is the most recent one in the tumultuous existence...

Lawmakers and prosecutors continue to take aim at a major subset of global corruption - corporate bribery of foreign government officials. Specifically, while the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the United States has risen to new records, the United Kingdom has revolutionized...

Child support enforcement and collection is a familiar problem in both the United Kingdom and the United States, fraught with low enforcement rates and high costs. The United Kingdom had approached the problem by centralizing collection efforts through the Child Support Agency and prohibiting...