However, changing a property settlement agreement and the division of assets is next to impossible.

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The Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, says the decision to allow Cyprus to apply for EU membership without a political settlement will make the division of the island permanent.

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The division in the settlement vote casts a cloud over what the SEC had claimed on Thursday was a major victory.

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The DOJ's antitrust division reached a settlement with Visa Monday in a suit that stated that MasterCard and Visa had adopted rules that acted to restrain merchants from encouraging customers to use cards with lower fees.

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We are pleased to have reached a settlement with Secretary Galvin and the Massachusetts Securities Division and to have put this matter behind us.

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Utah's state legislature went so far as to pass a law that would impose stiff penalties on brokers that didn't promptly report trade settlement failures to the state's securities division.

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The research settlement "was serendipitous, " says John Meserve, head of the division.

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She was going to divorce him and use his tax exposure to leverage a better financial settlement for herself in the divorce, and possibly report Ron to the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.

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