Domestic relations

Domestic Relations
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For psychological and sociological aspects, see marriage. For legal aspects, see divorce; husband and wife; parent and child.
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Domestic Relations: Refers to dissolution of marriage (divorce); custody of children and their support; maintenance (alimony) and property division.

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Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO): A court ruling stating that a portion of one spouse's pension is awarded to the other spouse as part of the equitable distribution of the marital assets.

domestic relations
n. a polite term for the legal field of divorce, dissolution, annulment, child custody, child support and alimony.

DOMESTIC RELATIONS ACTION -- A case involving divorce, separate maintenance, annulment of marriage, affirmation of marriage, paternity, child or spousal support, custody of a minor, parenting time, or grandparenting time. See MCR 3.201.

domestic relationship
A relationship where two people (of the same or opposite sex) are not married but are living or have lived together as a couple.
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In domestic relations matters, the Hague Convention refers to a treated formally known as the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction.

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Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
A court order that uses pension or retirement benefits to provide alimony or child support, or to divide marital property, at divorce.

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Qualified Domestic Relations Order - A order from the court in a divorce proceeding requiring the use of retirement benefits to provide spousal or child support.
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QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER (QDRO): a court order giving one spouse a share of the other spouse's pension or retirement funds.
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qualified domestic relations order (qdro) Pronounced "kwah-dro," an order issued by the court to divide retirement benefits.

Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO): An order or judgment issued by a court and approved by a pension plan, that divides a pension plan in order to make a fair division of property or to pay for child or spousal support.

Family Court(see Court)Family LawThe laws that deal with family-related issues and domestic relations including child protection, divorce, separation, custody and access, division of property, support, and adoption.

In Ohio, for instance, magistrates are appointed by the judges of many municipal courts, domestic relations and juvenile courts, and some courts of appeals and common pleas courts.

Civil cases include torts, suits about contracts, domestic relations (family law) cases, and many other kinds of cases.

Evereley's Law of The Domestic Relations (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1937), page 503.
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This court handles domestic relations cases such as divorce, dissolution, custody and child support. The Superior Court serves as the appellate court for appeals from district court cases and administrative agency decisions.

custody
n. 1) holding property under one's control. 2) law enforcement officials' act of holding an accused or convicted person in criminal proceedings, beginning with the arrest of that person. 3) in domestic relations (divorce, dissolution) a ...

Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues and domestic relations including, but not limited to: ...

ALIEN (Lat. alienus), the technical term applied by British constitutional law to anyone who does not enjoy the character of a British subject; in general, a foreigner who for the purposes of any state comes into certain domestic relations with ...

This court also has exclusive jurisdiction over all juvenile proceedings, mental health hospital commitments and domestic relations cases.

may include companies incorporated or doing business in different states or a citizen of a foreign country. However, note that the federal courts traditionally refuse to exercise their diversity jurisdiction over cases involving domestic relations ...

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