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uffer financial catastrophe upon divorce, and that
the lower-earning spouse and stay-at-home parent will not be financially
punished. Floridians have relied on this system post-divorce and planned
their lives accordingly."The proposed law also would have set limits on
the amount of alimony and how long one would receive financial support
from an ex-spouse.The bill would have made it harder to get alimony
in short-term marriages. And it would have prevented alimony payments from
lasting longer than one-half of the length of the marriage.It also would
have required judges to give divorced parents equal custody of their children
absent extraordinary circumstances."I'm actually surprised," said Jason
Marks, a divorce attorney in Miami, about the veto. The bill had
passed the House 85-31, with members of both parties crossing over. The
Senate approved it 29-11."My assumption is, you haven't heard the last of
it," Marks said. "Most family law practitioners will agree that uniformity
in determination of alimony is a good thing."The bill said that in
a short-term marriage, defined as less than 11 years, the assumption is
that alimony would not be awarded. If alimony were granted, it would
not be more than 25 percent of the ex-spouse's gross income.For marriages
that last between 11 and 20 years, there's no assumption either way
in the bill, but alimony would not have amounted to more than
35 percent of the ex-spouse's gross income.And in marria
ing as secretary in Obama's current Cabinet. She also would
be the wealthiest in the Cabinet by far, with Forbes estimating her
net worth at $1.85 billion and ranking her as the 277th richest
American.Pritzker is a lifelong Chicagoan who has known Obama since the
1990s and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for both his presidential
campaigns. She was his finance chairwoman in 2008, served as co-chair of
Obama for America 2012 and gave $250,000 to help put on his
inaugural festivities in January.Obama has called her a fearless leader
for his candidacy "who never wavered, never waffled and cracked the whip
with grace and good cheer."Obama selected her for his 16-member Presidential
Economic Recovery Advisory Board in 2009. When that board expired, Obama
included her in his 26-member Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.Pritzker
has led several companies and currently serves as chair of investment firms
Pritzker Realty Group and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She's also on the
board of the Hyatt Hotels Corp., the chain co-founded by her father.She's
donated generously to education and the arts and resigned from the Chicago
Board of Education in March as she was being vetted for the
Commerce nomination.Froman, Obama's deputy national security adviser for
international economic affairs, is steeped in the issues confronting the
trade representative.He has been Obama's main representative at international
economic summits such as the meeti
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">June 30, 2011: California Gov. Jerry Brown signs the state budget.APSACRAMENTO,
Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he has signed legislation
expanding the ability of state agents to seize firearms from nearly 20,000
Californians who are not allowed to have them.They collectively own more
than 39,000 handguns and 1,670 assault weapons but are prohibited from owning
firearms because they have been convicted of crimes, ruled mentally unstable
or are subject to domestic violence restraining orders.The bill authorizes
$24 million for the state Department of Justice's Armed and Prohibited Persons
program. The money will go to hire more agents to confiscate the
weapons and reduce the backlog over the next three years.The program, which
is unique to California, cross-checks five databases to find people who
bought weapons they are no longer legally allowed to own.SB140 by Senator
Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, authorizes $24 million to hire more agents to
confiscate the weapons and reduce the backlog over the next three years.The
bill is the first of numerous firearms bills introduced by lawmakers in
response to recent mass shootings in Connecticut and Colorado. The Democratic
governor signed the bill without comment."California is leading the nation
in a common-sense effort to protect public safety," Attorney General Kamala
Harris, who oversees the state Department of Justice, said in a statement.U.S.
Rep. Mike Thompson, a Democrat f
bique."Their legal system is
far from adequate and an individual found guilty is given a slap
on the wrist and then they say 'OK. Give me my horn
back,'" said Michael H. Knight, chairman of the African Rhino Specialist
Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Species
Survival Commission.A meeting of the group in February reported there might,
possibly, be one white rhino left in Mozambique and no black rhinos
at all, Knight said.According to Abacar: "We have already announced the
extinction of the rhino population in Limpopo National Park."But Bartolomeu
Soto, director of Mozambique's transfrontier conservation unit, told the
AP "We believe we still have rhinos, though we don't know how
many."Mozambican news reports have said the last 15 rhinos in the park
were slaughtered in the past month, but park officials said those reports
were wrong. Soto said the misunderstanding had arisen over Abacar's statement
to journalists that he had not seen a rhino in the three
months since he was put in charge of the large park.The only
official figure available for rhino deaths is that 17 rhino carcasses were
found in the park in 2010, Soto said. He said officials believe
poaching must be taking place because rhino horn and elephant tusks carried
by Asian smugglers are regularly seized at Mozambique's ports, although
at least some of the contraband could be from animals killed by
Mozambican poachers in neighboring South Afri
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