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If your neighbor erects a building without a building permit, do you have any right to take legal action, based on civil law? Or is the government the only one who can litigate against your neighbor?

In the last six months that I have been living on Sint Maarten, my child, now 11 months old, has travelled from and into St. Maarten on various occasions alone with his father, my mother and me. I prepared all the necessary documents to show that the person travelling with my child was permitted to.

Many people are experiencing financial hardship, and I thought that it would be a good time to discuss expectations some might have, when starting a court case to seek payment for a debt. Many debts may be left unpaid, due to people going through financial hardship during this time.

This article was written last year by Suhendra Leon, but the current “Me too” discussion in the Netherlands in response to the events surrounding the tv-show The Voice of Holland, shows that this subject continues to require our attention.