It rejects decades of legal precedent, which make one spouse the other's guardian.
We took a look at four decades of HBO shows (not miniseries) and picked our favorite 20.
Because of a long tradition of emigration and the massacres and expulsions during the last decades of Ottoman rule, most speakers of West Armenian live outside Anatolia.
They were launched at a time when health systems were already weak, sometimes on the verge of collapse, following decades of neglect.
Through decades of colonialism, first under British colonial administration and then as an independent country, they have distinguished themselves from the Chinese elsewhere.
With the United States poised to expand nuclear power after decades of stagnation, it will be important to reassess safety standards.
We peer back in time through decades of fickle journalism, national self-doubt, and social backlash, wondering if the dissenting politics of the sixties might simply have been another media fiction.
It would be nice if, in some areas at least, the Late Starters' Advantage also allowed societies to leapfrog quickly over decades of social struggle on other issues, such as gay rights.
Growing drug resistance is largely the consequence of decades of mismanagement of antibiotics.
Both men are fluent in Arabic and have decades of experience in the region.
Turkey's growing influence has fostered a new national confidence that has replaced decades of paranoia and prickliness.
They devote themselves to winning over City of God residents scarred by decades of violence — some at the hands of the police.
The dichotomy has led to decades of research in mathematics and physics, including the discovery of "fake" four-dimensional Spaces by Simon Donaldson in 1984.
I will treasure it because the abundance of choice that I enjoy came only after decades of efforts made by my granny, my mum, and millions of other Chinese women.
All of this explains in part why heart experts are concerned that the nation's obesity epidemic and the surge in diabetes rates threaten to unravel decades of progress against heart disease.
If not, the world faces decades of hostility and mistrust.
The twixters aren't lazy, the argument goes, they're reaping the fruit of decades of American affluence and social liberation.
The transition to open societies in states accustomed to decades of repression cannot be anything but chaotic.
His chocolate triumph is not the result of a snap buccaneering move, but follows decades of immersing himself in the cocoa business.
For the first time, more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees last year, the culmination of decades of change in the status of women at colleges nationwide.
That's what the frenzied celebration — no, the sheer pandemonium — looked and felt like here Friday night when President Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down after three decades of autocratic rule.
After two decades of sluggish growth, output has soared since 1978.
After decades of mismanagement, by the late 1990s perhaps a third of all loans were sour, most of them owed by zombie state-owned enterprises.
But after two decades of documenting the hi-tech counterculture, Rushkoff realised he had a new subject: the mess we're in.
Mr Erdogan also tried to soothe the many urban and middle-class Turks who fear his party is bent on unravelling decades of secularism established under the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk.
They devote themselves to winning over residents scarred by decades of violence - some at the hands of the police.
After decades of decline, the city looked like a set for an apocalyptic movie, especially in the crush of winter, when the sky was a perpetual charcoal gray.
It was the relish with which Dr Kevorkian courted controversy that provided the potency of the campaign for assisted suicide which occupied the last three decades of his life.
President Obama says, after decades of frustration and distrust, it is time for candor ... for dialogue ... and a fresh start.
Gaddafi is the subject of endless caricatures and photomontages, the mainstay of a cottage industry of revolutionary memorabilia driven by the sheer exuberance of release from decades of oppression.
Researchers studied three decades of Major League Baseball batting averages and play-by-play data.
Religious violence was a dark reality of life in 17th-century Britain, and the plot hatched by a group of Catholics in 1605 reflected decades of frustration at their faith's proscribed status.
But it also laid the groundwork for nearly three decades of growth and the emergence of new sectors like information technology and biotech.
But we must recognize that an escalating nuclear arms race in this region would undermine decades of growth and prosperity.
With advertising, publishing, research, consulting, and blogging street cred in the Enterprise space, she brings two decades of experience to bear on our own business model reinvention.
The walls, grimy with sections of peeling paint, revealed decades of hard living.
For decades official propaganda had lambasted capitalism as akin to cannibalism.
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