Each link leads to the page of the site devoted to that topic for this country. The general topic sits at the top of each of those pages.
The country in brief
Jamaica, 2.8 million people, is a common-law country whose family law was modernised in the 2000s: the Property (Rights of Spouses) Act 2004 gives common-law spouses of five years the same property rights as married couples, the Maintenance Act 2005 covers support, and the Domestic Violence Act of 1995, amended in 2004, provides protection orders. Marriage requires 18 years or parental consent from 16.
Abortion remains a crime under the Offences Against the Person Act, softened only by the common-law defence of protecting the woman's life or health, and same-sex relations are still criminalised; the Data Protection Act 2020 introduced modern privacy rules. The pages below give the Jamaican rule for each theme and the services available, including for the large diaspora in Britain and North America.
Advice
- Adoption
- Childcare
- Copyright
- Data protection
- Divorce
- Domestic violence
- Fundamental rights
- Healthy, good-looking teeth
- Identity theft
- Image rights
- Inheritance
- International dating
- Marriage
- Matrimonial property and inheritance
- Naming law, country by country
- Online shopping
- Partnerships and cohabitation
- Privacy
- Romance scams
- Same-sex marriage
- Sexual offences committed abroad
- Speech and online harassment
- Step-families
- The religious ceremony
- Wedding customs and ceremonies
- When your teenager's first relationship begins
Health
Sexuality
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