Questions tagged [poland]
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Can a person go to the court if she signed a contract not to go to court?
Suppose a couple signed a prenuptial contract that said they couldn't go to court regarding their divorce and custody of children. Everything must be resolved through mutual consensus and consultation of their respective families.
After some time,…
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Do I need to worry about inheriting Polish debt from a family member when based in the UK?
Apparently, under Polish law you inherit debt, however, you can choose not to accept the inheritance.
"Polish inheritance law follows the rule of general succession which means that heirs are liable for the debts of the estate."
A family lives in…
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Do heirs inherit liability for damages and wrongful death? (Poland or elsewhere)
The house to be inherited is in Poland, but I’d like to hear - from any country - the worst case scenario for the following heir.
The deceased left in his will a $100,000-worth house, with tenants, in bad condition.
Before his death, he had been…
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Is the Vilnius-Lublin portal a violation of GDPR?
Don’t get me wrong, I love it!
But is it GDPR compliant given that people walk up to a camera that will broadcast their image outside of their country?
See also this news story and this one
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GDPR and Telecom law broken, mobile network operator refuses to disclose user of a phone number
I got today a very unnerving phone call. It was a telemarketing, but unlike any other I had before, this was automated system and it suggested it knew much more about me than my number. I'm talking location, age, health...
The call did not state who…
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How to count study-years toward Polish law for Permanent Residency
I studied in Poland for 4 years. How many years count according to:
Art. 212.1. Do 5-letniego okresu pobytu na terytorium Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, o którym mowa w art. 211 ust. 1, zalicza się:
3)połowę okresu pobytu na terytorium…
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Am I obliged to reveal my religion when exchanging the ID card in Poland?
My ID card in Poland will expire in few weeks, hence I need to apply for a new one. I want to take a photo for the new ID wearing head cover that is common in my religion. However Polish law regarding requirements for photograph for ID seems to…
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Scraping FB phone numbers
I am an EU citizen who codes. I have a project, which works this way:
program enters a word into Facebook search
program extracts links to the Facebook pages
program scrapes (gather and save) the contact phone number of the page (session is without…
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What is the legal status of civil unions in Poland
From time to time local media in my country (Romania) argues about civil union which is not yet allowed. Doing some research, I chose Poland as a reference as I perceived relatively socially conservative (e.g. both Poland and Romania strongly oppose…
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What investigatory procedures and decisions are there for a tourist death in Poland?
A friend of my girlfriend (from Ukraine) visited Poland. Unfortunately for him, he got killed. I do not know much further details. Parents claimed that it was due to external trauma (e.g. another guy or more beating him to death). What made me…
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What's the difference between compensation and redress?
I read on https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/wrongly-accused-pole-gets-eur-286-mln-in-return-for-18-years-in-jail-19684:
Komenda will receive PLN 811,533 (EUR 181,000) as compensation and PLN 12 million (EUR 2.68 million) as redress for the 18…
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How is Poland's EU membership not void because of the EU contract violating the Polish constitution?
As far as I understand it, an illegal contract is void, and the Polish Supreme Court has assessed that EU contract violates the Polish Constitution.
Why is Poland still considered an EU member state?
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Is inheritence affected if a sibling has debts?
I have a situation where a house which is situated in
West Pomeranian Voivodeship (english)
Województwo zachodniopomorskie (polish) (Poland) has been left to be inherited equally between 3 siblings. One of the siblings (sibling A) has debts…
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How Can This Book Published in 2005 be in the Public Domain?
According to Internet Archive, the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (Divine Mercy in My Soul) published by Marian Press, Stockbridge, MA in 2005, is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
St. Faustina died in Poland in 1938. An English translation of her Diary…
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How to calculate years for a Permanent Residency in Poland?
I was a student for a 3.5 years, and later I worked for one year. How many years count toward Permanent Residency according to "USTAWA z dnia 12grudnia 2013r.o cudzoziemcach"?
Art.195.1. Zezwolenia na pobyt stały udziela się cudzoziemcowi …
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