Legal guides

Practical guides to Dutch law, arranged by area of law: from employment and corporate law to family law, immigration, criminal law and real estate. Written by the lawyers of Law & More in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.

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Copying general terms and conditions: the legal risks in the Netherlands

Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky under Dutch law on three separate grounds: copyright, unlawful act and the validity of the terms themselves. The exception is short standard phrasing, which is too generic for copyright

If you married in the Netherlands on or after 1 January 2018 without a notarial

A criminal conviction can cost a foreign national their Dutch residence permit, but not automatically:

The cost of a divorce in the Netherlands depends mainly on how far you and

Confiscation of proceeds of crime in the Netherlands works in two stages: during the investigation

Almost every commercial lease in the Netherlands is based on a model of the Real

Assault (mishandeling) under Dutch law is intentionally causing someone pain or injury, or intentionally harming

The 30% ruling (30%-regeling, now also called the expat scheme or expatregeling) allows a Dutch

An open source licence is a copyright licence with conditions: under the Dutch Copyright Act

If a Dutch public authority refuses your permit, withdraws a subsidy or imposes an enforcement

Every employee in the Netherlands accrues at least four times their weekly working hours in

If your building is connected to a district heating network (warmtenet), the Heat Act (Warmtewet)

The General Administrative Law Act (Algemene wet bestuursrecht, Awb) governs almost every dealing you have