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
In divorce mediation you and your former partner negotiate your own settlement with one impartial
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Redundancy in the Netherlands is about the job, not the employee. An employer who wants
- Reading time: 6 min
Dutch law draws a line between an opinion, however sharp, and an attack on someone’s
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A landlord in the Netherlands can never evict a tenant on his own authority. Eviction
- Reading time: 5 min
If the government orders your business premises to close, you still owe rent in principle,
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As a creditor you can ask the district court to declare a non-paying debtor bankrupt
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A Dutch divorce can be arranged almost entirely at a distance: your lawyer files the
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If a Dutch court has ruled against you because you did not appear, you can
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A parent may not unilaterally stop contact that was agreed in a parenting plan (ouderschapsplan)
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If you are the victim of online fraud, act on three tracks at once: report
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After an arrest, the police can hold you for up to nine hours for questioning,
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Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is the set of legally binding quality rules for how medicines
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