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Civil Law

General Terms and Conditions: Why Copying Them Will Cost You Dearly

You start a webshop. You have a sleek website, a professional logo, and great products ready to ship. But then you hit a snag: the general terms and conditions. You look at a competitor’s site, copy their text, paste it

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Criminal Law

The Summons and the Hearing in a Dutch Criminal Case

If a criminal case has been brought against you in the Netherlands, the first formal

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Family Law

The Parenting Plan (Ouderschapsplan) in the Netherlands

If you are separating in the Netherlands and have children under 18, Dutch law does

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Family Law

How Dutch Child Maintenance Is Calculated

Search for a “child support calculator” for the Netherlands and you will find tools that

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Family Law

Acknowledgement of a Child in the Netherlands

Dutch law distinguishes sharply between a child’s biological parent and its legal parent. Only legal

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Administrative Law

The Woo Request in the Netherlands

Almost every dealing with a Dutch public body leaves a paper trail: inspection reports, permit

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Administrative Law

Penalty Payment Orders and Administrative Enforcement in the Netherlands

When a Dutch authority finds that your company or your property breaches a permit, a

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Administrative Law

The Administrative Fine in the Netherlands

A Dutch regulator can fine your company without going to court. It investigates, decides, and

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IT Law

Software Escrow Under Dutch Law

If your business depends on software you did not write, you depend on the company

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Corporate Law

Breaking Off Negotiations under Dutch Law: When Does It Cost You?

Talks that ran for months, a deal everyone assumed was done, and then one side

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Scraping and reuse of platform data
IT Law

Scraping and reuse of platform data: the legal framework

When may you collect and reuse platform data? Database rights, copyright, contract, art. 138ab Dutch
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Your Dutch employer is bankrupt: what happens to your job
Employment Law

Your Dutch employer is bankrupt: your job, your unpaid wages and your severance

Do you transfer to the buyer, what does UWV reimburse and are you still entitled
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Restarting a business out of a Dutch bankruptcy
Corporate Law

Restarting a business out of a Dutch bankruptcy: how it works and where the risks sit

What you buy in a Dutch doorstart, who decides, where the workforce risk sits and
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