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CNMI Family Law Digest now freely available online
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Posted on Feb 04 2014
The Family Court Division of the Superior Court announced yesterday the release of a Family Law Digest containing all Commonwealth Supreme Court, Superior Court, Commonwealth Trial Court, and Trust Territory High Court case law. A “digest” is a legal reference book that organizes court cases by subject matter. The Family Law Digest takes all Commonwealth cases that discuss family law and organizes them by specific family law subjects. For example, subjects include adoption, alimony, and custody, to name a few.
Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo, who leads the Family Court Division, praised the author of the Digest, his former law clerk, James M. Zarones, for compiling the Digest—mostly on his own free time. Govendo expressed the hope and expectation that the Digest “will help local attorneys, the courts, the Legislature, and the people of the Commonwealth understand and improve upon the family law of the Northern Mariana Islands.”
Zarones also included explanatory commentary to points of law where appropriate.
Zarones created the Digest to “trim attorney fees and court costs by reducing the amount of research time required for any given case.” In addition, Zarones hopes “that the Legislature will use the Digest when amending the Commonwealth’s family laws to make improvements.”
The Digest, created and made available as a public service to the Commonwealth, is distributed by the Law Revision Commission for free on its website.
To view the Family Law Digest, visit www.cnmilaw.org and navigate to the Judiciary link. If you have any questions contact the Law Revision Commission at 236-9820 or at cnmilaw@justice.gov.mp. (NMI Judiciary)
