DEPENDENCY. A territory distinct from the country in which the supreme sovereign, power resides, but belonging rightfully to it, and subject to the laws and regulations which the sovereign may think proper to prescribe.
Dependency deduction
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: a deduction allowed to be taken in a set amount for a qualified dependent (as under sections 151 and 152 of the Internal Revenue Code)
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Such conditions as mental, psychological, or physical disability or dependency may be used to show susceptibility. Second, there must be an opportunity for exercising undue influence.
The question of guardianship most commonly arises in relation to children, where there is parental abuse, neglect, drug dependency, or divorce (in which case reposing custody in one parent or the other generally becomes the issue).
FIA -- See FAMILY INDEPENDENCY AGENCY.
Fiduciary - Normally, the term is synonymous to a trustee, which is the classic form of a fiduciary relationship. A fiduciary has rights and powers, which would normally belong to another person.
Personal are such as belong immediately to the person of a man; chattels real are such as either appertain not immediately to the person, but to something by way of dependency, as a box with the title deeds of lands; ...
Guardian ad Litem Program - when a child is thrust into the legal system because of abuse, neglect or dependency, a trained GAL volunteer researches the child's home and community situation.
A relationship of economic dependency may have developed, one spouse on the other, often caused by extended parental leave by one of the spouses in order to provide full time household or child-rearing responsibilities to the family, ...
annual review - Yearly judicial review, usually in juvenile dependency cases, to determine, whether the child requires continued court supervision or placement.
answer - A pleading by which defendant responds to the plaintiff's complaint.
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Abuse-Liable: Pharmacological substances that have the potential for creating abusive dependency. Abuse-liable substances can include both illicit and licit drugs.
No more than 7 percent of the visas may be issued to natives of any one independent country in a fiscal year; no more than 2 percent may issued to any one dependency of any independent country.
ecosystem : The interacting synergism of all living organisms in a particular environment; every plant, insect, aquatic animal, bird, or land species that forms a complex web of interdependency.
juvenile court: That part of the superior court that handles delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases involving minors.
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CHIPS: (Juvenile Court) Child in Need of Protection or Services. These are children whose cases have been brought into juvenile court, usually by the social services agency, as the result of a dependency or neglect petition. M.S. §260-015 ...
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