Most states, however, simply accept the postnup as a private contract between two adults.
City officials have said it is far too soon to speculate what a private contract might look like.
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The Federal Arbitration Act has roots in the historic hostility of state judges to any sort of private contract that diminished their ability to question its terms.
The board of the CCG has agreed it will not take over management of the private contract when it assumes control of NHS commissioning in the spring.
If you follow that line of interpretation, the theory is that Arbitration Agreements are freely-bargained for obligations embedded within freely-bargained for contracts, and, as such, if parties wish to arbitrate pursuant to private contract, then the government generally should not interfere.
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Nor is it to rule out the right of an individual artist to negotiate a resale agreement when he sells a painting: the royalties a publisher pays to an author are the product of just such a private contract, not a law.
But still, some (private) firm wins the design contract, and then some other (private) firm or (private) firms contract out the labor (or most of it) to do things like, environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks, stretching wire, managing the people who do environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks and stretching wire.
These are jobs that private contractors contract with the state or the city or the county to build roads and highways, the same way that we built the Interstate Highway System and the Intercontinental Railroad System.
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Tucker berates head of the fictional Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship Nicola Murray, played by Rebecca Front, over her husband's involvement in a private finance initiative contract and her plan to send her daughter to a private school.
Ken Livingstone, the mayor, blamed Alstom, an engineering firm with a private-finance contract to maintain the trains.
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The better idea would be to contract with private economists to get independent forecasts.
In the United States, we have constructed and enforce institutions of private property ownership and contract enforcement.
In the U.K., private companies can actually contract with law enforcement to conduct and even arrest people accused of fraud.
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Mr Balls is expected to say that from 2011 he is ending the multi-million pound contract with private company Capita to deliver the strategies.
President Bush is willing to impose his version of airport security by executive order if Congress doesn't pass a bill that allows the federal government to contract with private companies to provide airport and baggage security, a key House GOP ally of the Bush White House told CNN.
In contract, the private investors in the BofA case are looking for the bank to buyback their securities.
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In fairness to officials, negotiating a decades-long contract with a private company is bound to be a tricky exercise requiring plenty of expensive legal gymnastics.
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But local governments change, and the next incumbents are often tempted to deflect public anger over rising water charges and lost jobs by rewriting or even cancelling the contract with the private firm.
The project is being managed by Wireless Philadelphia, a city-sponsored nonprofit group which plans to contract with a private firm to build and maintain the network, and then will rent access to service providers.
Getting private firms to manage schools under contract to the state should just be a start.
The government's current push, as the Jarvis contract shows, is private provision of services to school managements.
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Medicare needs to require of any private health plan that wants to contract with it for any reason that they use a single, completely electronic, standardized, end-to-end payment framework for doctors and hospitals.
Mr. Flanders has shrunk Playboy's staff from 585 when he arrived to 165 today, 65 of whom work in the famous Playboy Mansion where Mr. Hefner lives, as stipulated in the contract taking the company private.
Any private company tempted to bid for a contract from a local council, meanwhile, will have subtly different priorities.
Some schools organise their own catering, while others contract the service in through private companies or the local authority.
Under a typical school PPP project, the council awards a private sector consortium of various firms a contract to build or refurbish properties and then maintain the facilities over a period of perhaps 25 years or more.
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While the contract is ordinarily made with the private sector, the organisations that deliver the services on the ground are often charities or social enterprises.
Charities might also be forced, like councils, to contract out some of their services to private firms if this produced better value.
The trust announced in December it would be considering pulling out of the proposed deal to contract their IT work out to a private company.
Another 200 are contract dogs, trained and handled by private firms.
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