Japan's Fukuda Set To Become Prime Minister
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After the haplessness of the Abe era, Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party has chosen a safe pair of hands to be its new leader, and by extension Japan's next prime minister.
Yasuo Fukuda, 71, was chosen Sunday to lead the party, winning 330 of the 527 votes cast by LDP lawmakers. He easily beat out Taro Aso, a close ally of the previous prime minister Shinzo Abe, who got 197. As leader of the governing party, Fukuda's election as prime minister on Tuesday is a formality.
Fukuda is a veteran politician and fits the mold of a traditional uncharismatic, conservative back-room LDP politician. He was chief cabinet secretary under Abe's predecessor Junichiro Koizumi, and his father, Takeo, was prime minister in the 1970s. He had been expected to run against Abe last time around but stood aside citing his age.
The margin of his victory shows he has the support of the party's biggest factions, and that the old guard is reasserting its control over the party's younger and more nationalist modernizers.
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Grounds for Divorce in Ohio - Sylkatis Law, LLC
A divorce in Ohio is filed when there is typically “fault” by one of the parties and party not at “fault” seeks to end the marriage. A court in Ohio may grant a divorce for the following reasons:
• Willful absence of the adverse party for one year
• Adultery
• Extreme cruelty
• Fraudulent contract
• Any gross neglect of duty
• Habitual drunkenness
• Imprisonment in a correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint
• Procurement of a divorce outside this state by the other party
Additionally, there are two “no-fault” basis for which a court may grant a divorce:
• When the parties have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation
• Incompatibility, unless denied by either party
However, whether or not the the court grants the divorce for “fault” or not, in Ohio the party not at “fault” will not get a bigger slice of the marital property.