Newsletter - July 2010

Family Law

The Eighth Meeting of Ministers of Justice or Other Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA VIII) requested holding a technical meeting of the REMJA on the Network of Hemispheric Legal Cooperation in the Area of Family and Child Law during the second half of 2010. On that occasion the Department of International Law will present the results of two pilot meetings of the Network of Hemispheric Legal Cooperation in the Area of Family and Child Law, and REMJA will consider the possibility of forming a working group on the subject.

The purpose of this initiative is to implement the Network of Hemispheric Legal Cooperation in the Area of Family and Child Law as a working tool for authorities in each country in the area of family and child law. The network is in its pilot stage at present and the participants include Argentina, Bahamas,Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Dominican Republic El Salvador, Granada, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. .

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