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
Surrogacy is allowed in the Netherlands, but there is no specific legislation for it, and
- Reading time: 6 min
If you arrange a surrogacy (draagmoederschap) abroad, the parenthood recognised in the country of birth
- Reading time: 3 min
Parental authority (gezag) is the right and duty to make decisions about your child’s upbringing,
- Reading time: 4 min
Dutch law currently recognises three partnership forms: the maatschap (professional partnership), the general partnership or
- Reading time: 4 min
As an employer, you generally cannot refuse a sick report just because you doubt it.
- Reading time: 6 min
A declaration of acquiescence (akte van berusting) is a written statement in which a party
- Reading time: 3 min
An employee must carry out reasonable instructions about the work under the employer’s right of
- Reading time: 4 min
Whether you can get out of a contract depends first on its duration. A fixed-term
- Reading time: 5 min
In an international divorce, two questions come first: which court has jurisdiction, and which law
- Reading time: 4 min
A high-conflict divorce (vechtscheiding) is one in which the parents can no longer agree on
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A criminal record in the Netherlands is the information about you in the Judicial Documentation
- Reading time: 6 min
In the Netherlands, your employer can only dismiss you on one of the grounds listed
- Reading time: 7 min
