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A fair word of warning to all foreigners and Dominicans who have live in girlfriends...dont tell me I didnt tell you so: The Dominican Supreme Court just upheld monetary compensation for a live-in girlfriend of a man who died in an accident and she claimed jurisdiction over his estate. This historical decision will have major repercussions on this island as it gives a solid base to Law 24-97, which already gives ample protection to women from emotional, psychological and physical abuse and implied in its precepts that concubines or mistresses had as much rights as lawful wives to protection under all civil and criminal laws and it pretended to give a statute of limitation of three years of live-in status for full recognition. So, pandoras box has opened now and what I jokingly said in a previous post about changing your girlfriends every once in a while, may now be a matter of landing in the poor house and a necessity. The golddiggers are celebrating today! Of course a good Separation of Benefits Statement is still your best bet.
2)I mentioned in a previous post related to airport and customs corruption by officials and baggage checkers that top government officials were involved and that the dirty money flows from the bottom up, but never from the top down. Well, today the Chairman of the Dominican House of Representatives is calling for the censure and expulsion of one of their deputies, PRD member Jorge Luis Rojas, for clearing the way for a friend to travel with a false passport and visa thru the Ambassadors VIP Lounge area, where people normally do not get checked. But this is just a tip of the iceberg...the fact of the matter is that all of them do it! Hey, they even steal each others electronic voting cards when a member of the Assembly is absent and vote whichever way they want. Naturally, the Chairman Lila Alburquerque ordered an investigation on the vote fraud, which will last until 2010 before the results are published.
2)I mentioned in a previous post related to airport and customs corruption by officials and baggage checkers that top government officials were involved and that the dirty money flows from the bottom up, but never from the top down. Well, today the Chairman of the Dominican House of Representatives is calling for the censure and expulsion of one of their deputies, PRD member Jorge Luis Rojas, for clearing the way for a friend to travel with a false passport and visa thru the Ambassadors VIP Lounge area, where people normally do not get checked. But this is just a tip of the iceberg...the fact of the matter is that all of them do it! Hey, they even steal each others electronic voting cards when a member of the Assembly is absent and vote whichever way they want. Naturally, the Chairman Lila Alburquerque ordered an investigation on the vote fraud, which will last until 2010 before the results are published.