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Family Law Glossary
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Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues and domestic relations including, but not limited to: ...
Garnishment: A proceeding whereby a debtor's money, or other property, which is under the control of another is given to a third person to whom the debtor owes a debt. In family law this often applies to child support or alimony.
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Absolute Divorce: An absolute divorce is what is commonly referred to as "divorce". An absolute divorce can only be obtained by a judgment of the court finding that all of the legal requirements have been met.
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Glossary of Family Law Terms
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Spousal Support
Commonly referred to as alimony, is a financial award sometimes granted during a divorce, to be paid by the higher wage earner spouse to the lower or non-wage earner spouse.
Family Law
the area of law dealing with family relations including divorce, adoption, paternity, custody, and support.
Family law - Those areas of the law pertaining to families, i.e., marriage, divorce, child custody, juvenile, paternity, etc.
Family Law Facilitator: A lawyer with experience in family law who works for the superior court in every California county to help parents and children involved in family law cases with child, spousal, and partner support problems.
Family law
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: an area of law dealing with family relations including divorce, adoption, paternity, custody, and support
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In family law, the doctrine is invoked most often in two situations. First, a parent who kidnaps and then later requests custody will often be denied custody unless the child is in danger of harm from the other parent.
In family law maintenance is often used as a synonym for spousal support or alimony, and the term is in fact replacing alimony. Traditionally, alimony was solely the right of the wife to be supported by the husband. In Orr v. Orr, 440 U.S. 268, 99 S.
In family law, an order preventing a specified person from harassing or molesting the person applying for the order.
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A commercial arrangement that prevents a business from freely buying or selling goods or services.
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As a single parent, you should be familiar with the following legal terms related to family law and child support enforcement: ...
Custody 1) In family law, the right to make decisions about or physically live with a child. 2) Holding property under one's control. 3) Holding an accused or convicted person in the control of the state, beginning with the arrest of the person.
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In family law, the term usually refers to the person who receives or to whom support or maintenance is owed. In commercial law, the term refers to the person to whom a bill of exchange is made payable.
Cohabitation Agreement(see Domestic Contract)Collaborative Family Law(see Alternative Dispute Resolution)Commission(1) An act or action. A positive action in contrast to an omission.
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Petitions are normally used to institute proceedings in the areas of bankruptcy, patents, professional disciplinary bodies and family law matters.
These views are supported by ethnological observations and used as a clue to the history of relationship and family law in ancient Greece.
Civil cases include torts, suits about contracts, domestic relations (family law) cases, and many other kinds of cases.
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Presumption of Advancement:
A presumption in trust, contract and family law which suggests that property transferred from a parent to a child, or spouse to spouse, is a gift and would defeat any presumption of a resulting trust.
A case to protect the private right of a person or to compel some type of solution in a dispute between parties. These cases usually involve family law issues, money damages or equitable relief (e.g., injunction or specific performance).
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The presiding judge usually makes assignments of judges to specialized courts (juvenile, probate, criminal, law and motion, family law, etc.), oversees the calendar, and chairs meetings of the judges.
And in family law cases -- divorce, custody and child support -- judges often have the power to order the more affluent spouse to pay the other spouse's attorney fees, even where there is no clear victor.
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