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A giving up, a total desertion, an absolute relinquishment.
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To take someone away from a place without that person's consent, or by fraud.
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A non-custodian parent's bundle of rights or times and days during which he/she has exclusive time with the child of the separated parents.
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An adoption of a child not for the sake of the child but to the convenience, usually financial, of the adopting parent(s).
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An individual who has reached, or is over the age of majority.
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A son or daughter who has reached the age of majority.
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Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not their married spouse.
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Adult Interdependent Partner inizia ad imparare
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A statutory term for individuals within a common-law relationship.
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An age generally specified by statute, at which time, upon an individual is given the full gamut of legal rights and responsibilities generally available to an adult of sound mind.
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An amount given to one spouse from another while they are separated.
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Latin: friend of the court.
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To make void forever; to cancel an event or judicial proceeding both retroactively and for the future so that in the eyes of the law, it never occurred.
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An event or document which pre-dates a marriage.
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A debt that is not paid on the due date adds up and accumulates in arrears.
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An illegitimate child, born in a relationship between two persons that are not married (ie. not in wedlock) or who are not married at the time of the child’s birth.
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A species of self-defence to manslaughter or murder in which expert evidence is led to demonstrate that a female defendant in an abusive relationship comes to believe that to save herself she must kill her husband first.
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A three-phase cycle of violent behavior within a spousal relationship.
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Being married to more than one person at the same time; a criminal offence in most jurisdictions.
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A form of access or custody where the children stay in the former family residence and it is the parents who rotate in and out separately and on a negotiated schedule.
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Born of parents who were not married at the time of birth.
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Certificate of Independent Legal Advice inizia ad imparare
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A document that attests that a person has received legal advice on a proposed contract, from a lawyer not associated with the other contracting party.
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An order sought by a party seeking return of a child that grants custody of the child to that party after the child has already been removed from the jurisdiction.
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A young individual who is under the legal age of majority, or who is the natural offspring of another.
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A dependent child of two persons, married at the time of conception of the child, and for whom both parents are financially liable.
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Periodic money payments payable by a non-custodial parent, to the custodial parent, for the care of his or her child.
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A document in civil law jurisdictions that purports to be a compendium of the applicable law as it pertains to the citizen.
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A contract by two individuals of the age of majority, of different or same gender, to provide legal rights and obligations as a result of their cohabitation.
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A body of law derived and evolved directly from Roman Law, the primary feature of which is that laws are struck in writing; codified, and not determined, as in the common law, by the opinions of judges based on historic customs.
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A formal union between two people, of the same or of different genders which results in, but falls short of, marriage-like rights and obligations.
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An adoption of a child in which the relinquishing parent surrenders his or her parental rights to unknown parties.
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A family law dispute resolution encouragement process set in writing which includes a promise to negotiate in good faith, to engage in the exchange of private and confidential information on a without prejudice basis, and a motivational commitment that the participating lawyers or law firms would withdraw if the negotiations fail.
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The contract which creates and triggers the formal engagement in the collaborative law process, designed to encourage the settlement of a family law dispute outside of litigation.
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A secret agreement between two or more persons, who seem to have conflicting interests, to abuse the law or the legal system, deceive a court or to defraud a third party.
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An ancient form of marriage, by consent and consummation but otherwise recognized in the common law.
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Two unmarried persons living together as though married.
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A marriage property legal term; property acquired or owned during a marriage or, where recognized, a marriage-like relationship, and which belongs, notwithstanding title, as in a partnership and as tenants in common (“hence “community”), to each spouse equally and subject to division on that basis in the event of separation or divorce.
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Civil law term for an unmarried couple living nonetheless as husband and wife or, where same-sex relationships are recognized by law, such similar cohabitation relationships.
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Obvious or implied forgiveness.
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Secretly privy or accessory to the act of another.
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Common blood, descendants of a same common ancestor.
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Companionship, love and affection and intimacy between husband and wife within a mariage.
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A punishment for some violation of conduct which involves the infliction of pain on, or harm to the body
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Force used upon those over which an individual generally has guardian responsibilities, used to remove a dependent from a particular situation or to secure compliance with instructions.
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A method of proportionate division of a spouse's pension benefits as accrued during the period of marriage.
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Criminal conversation: synonymous with adultery.
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Conduct that causes bodily or mental injury, or apprehension to such injury, to a person or an animal, without legitimate purpose.
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Widower's right to an interest in his deceased wife's real property.
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Charge and control of a person or item of property.
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A father who ignores a Court order to pay child support.
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The name given to a final and conclusive court order after the condition of an interim or intervening order (decree nisi) is met.
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A provisional decision of a court which does not have force or effect until a certain condition is met such as another petition brought before the court or after the passage of a period time.
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The final, legal ending of a marriage, by Court order.
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An obselete form of divorce order which did not end the marriage but allowed the parties to reside separate; in effect, a legal or judicially-sanctioned separation of two married persons.
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Muslim law: a father's right to constrain his son or daughter into a marriage of the father’s choosing.
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Abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid. A chromosome molecule which carries genetic coding unique to each person with the only exception of identical twins (that is why it is also called 'DNA fingerprinting').
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An assault or battery upon another member of a family or, in some jurisdictions, threatening words.
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Double recovery of funds or property through two different sources effectively or potentially doubling the entitlement.
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Double dipping; accessing funds or property through two different sources effectively or potentially doubling the entitlement.
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Latin: for so long as she remains chaste.
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Latin: for so long as she remains unmarried.
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Latin: for so long as she remains single (unmarried) and chaste.
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Latin: for so long as she remains a widow.
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A statute that confers validity on a second marriage of a missing person's spouse after a specified absence.
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An old common law action against any person who caused a husband to lose the love, services or society of his wife.
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French: A fetus recognized as a child then alive for the purposes of wills and estates.
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A child born outside of marriage.
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The central, fundamental unit of society responsible for the primary development and socialization of children.
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French: an unmarried woman.
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The seizing of a person's property, credit or salary, on the basis of a law which allows it, and for the purposes of paying off a debt.
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An individual who, by legal appointment or by the effect of a written law, is given custody of both the property and the person of one who is unable to manage their own affairs, such as a child or mentally-disabled person.
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A guardian appointed to direct litigation on behalf and in the interests of a person otherwise incapable of managing their affairs.
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A mostly discarded assumption of law; that the legal guardian of a child is the father or, on his death, the mother.
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A person appointed to manage the health and well-being of another.
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The office or duty of one who legally has the care and management of the person, or the estate, or both, of a child.
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A special right that married persons have to keep communications between them secret and even inaccessible to a court of law.
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Muslim law: The mandatory waiting period before a divorce created by talaq becomes effective.
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A person who, though not the natural parent, has acted as a parent to a child and may thus be liable to legal obligations as if he/she were a natural parent.
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To take effect, to result; to come into operation.
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A clause in a clegal document, such as a contract or will, that purports to extend the benefits of the document beyond the signatories.
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A false boast designed to increase standing at the expense of another.
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A child custody Court decision that both parents share joint legal custody and joint physical custody.
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A British Columbia model of joint guardianship in respect to children as between separated parents.
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(USA) When an unwed father promptly demonstrates a full commitment to his parental responsibilities, he is entitled to recognition of his real parental relationship absent a showing of unfitness.
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Muslim law: a divorce on the wife's initiative and upon payment of an agreed amount to the husband.
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To confine a person against his or her will.
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An agreement between a child protection worker and a member of the child’s extended family or other person known to the child, to care for and financially support the child.
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The lawful entitlement to make decisions in regards to another, such as a parent or a prison warden.
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An emotional attachment towards another evidenced by kindness, consideration, understanding, patience, sacrifice or sufferance, if necessary, and words and actions.
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The obligation of one person to contribute, in part or in whole, to the cost of living of another person.
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Property acquired by either of two spouses while they are married together.
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The voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.
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An agreement between two persons in anticipation of or during the marriage, and in regards to rights and responsibilities as they may flow from the relationship.
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A contract of introduction to unwed persons, payment due and payable upon marriage.
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A contract between prospective husband and wife, or during the marriage, and which settles in whole or in part, their respective rights and obligations as regards the marriage.
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A marriage entered into not for love and mutual affection but in order to facilitate immigration.
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Of or relating to the state of being married; of marriage.
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An asset owned by one or both of two persons who are married to one another which, upon the application of one of the spouses to a court, is subject to division between them.
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A debt contracted during a marriage and for which both spouses are equally liable, regardless of who contracted the debt or who is directly liable for it.
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Property owned by one or both of two persons who are married to one another which, upon the application of one of the spouses to a court, is subject to division between them.
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The legal state of being married.
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Wanton, malicious or unnecessary infliction of pain or suffering upon the feelings or emotions of another.
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A young person not yet of the age of majority.
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Muslim law: a temporary marriage; for a fixed period.
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A unique combination of a given and a surname, assigned to an individual, generally at birth, and used to identify distinguish that individual both socially and in regards to the assertion or defence of legal rights.
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A product or service sold or provided to an individual not legally competent, which are useful to his or her comfort or convenience taking into account the age and condition of the individual.
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Latin: consent, not physical intercourse, constitutes marriage.
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A matrimonial or joint tenant property compensatory claim based on an allegation that one spouse or joint tenant ought to be debited the value of her or his exclusive occupation of the family or jointly-held home.
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An adoption in which the natural parents select the adoptive parents, and may give the natural parents some access to the child.
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A person who has lost one or both of his or her natural parents.
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A judicial award of spousal support or compensation for services, money, and goods contributed during a longterm nonmarital relationship.
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A form of custody and guardianship order in which such authority transfers from parent to parent as the children are exchanged.
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Latin: literally, father of the country. Refers to the inherent jurisdiction of the courts to make decisions concerning people who are not able to take care of themselves.
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Father or mother or as otherwise may be defined by statute such as through adoption or same-sex relationships. Also, the controlling corporation of another.
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A form of emotional child abuse where a custodial parent belittles or vilifies the other parent to the child.
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The person to whom payment is addressed or given.
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The person who makes required payment(s).
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Latin: whereby he loses the company of his wife.
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When one spouse has offered such indignities to the other spouse as to render his or her condition in life intolerable.
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(USA-family law) The restoration of a parent to a formerly held constructive and useful role as a parent within a reasonable time.
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French: as to the whole and not just a part.
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A variant of child custody distinguished in some jurisdictions as the mere right to maintain a home for the minor child and provide for his/her routine care.
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Family law, grounds for divorce, cruelty which is physical in nature and which renders continued cohabitation intolerable.
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The having of more than one husband by a wife.
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Being married to multiple wives or husbands at the same time.
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One man with several wives.
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A contract entered into by prospective spouses prior to marriage but in contemplation and in consideration thereof.
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One who essentially serves as a second parent to a child and is a relationship to which the child's parent has consented.
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A presumed but not DNA-confirmed father of a child.
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The act of separated spouses returning to family cohabitation.
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Abbreviation for reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders, an international system of enforcement of support orders.
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A marital property regime wherein property acquired or owned by a married person and which, notwithstanding the marriage or, where recognized, a marriage-like relationship, remains the separate property of the spouse who acquired or to whom was gifted the item of property.
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A private contract between separating spouses resolving issues of joint, family or marital property or assets, support and child responsibilities.
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A family law support or maintenance term referring to a situation where a child spends about an equal amount of time in the care and home of each of the two separated or divorced parents, and the parents share the legal rights in regards to the child.
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A term of art in Canadian family support law referring to outside-of-the-ordinary expenses related to the care and upkeep of a child.
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A child custody decision which results in the splitting up of the children; that legal custody of one or more of the children is with the father, and that of one or more of the other children are with the mother.
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The physical or emotional abuse of a spouse.
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Payments to an ex-spouse which are temporary or indefinite, lump sum or periodic, designed to pool and share the income of both spouses for that period of time necessary for the lower-income spouse to become economically self-sufficient.
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To be married or as if married.
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The status of one spouse in regards to the natural children of the other spouse issue from another.
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Muslim law: The right given to a Muslim man to divorce his wife by mere unequivocal statement.
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The conversion of a separate property asset into marital property intentionally or by virtue of words and actions during marriage.
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The American uniform child and spousal support legislation, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act already adopted and implemented by most states.
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Special or specified circumstances that partially or fully exempt a person from performance of a legal obligation so as to avoid an unreasonable or disproportionate burden or obstacle.
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Benefiting from the action or property of another without legal justification.
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Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act of the United States, as created in 1950 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
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Related to the uterus or, in estate law, siblings issue of a common mother.
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Muslim law: an insult proffered by a husband upon his wife which likens the wife to some prohibited female relation of his, and exposes the husband to divorce.
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