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Family law
Law that deals with family-related issues such as spousal abuse, legitimacy, adoption, surrogacy, child abuse, and child abduction.
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contempt
Legal services; Family law
Disregarding or disobeying a court order. It is a very, very serious thing to be held in contempt of court.
modification
Legal services; Family law
To change an existing court order because of a change in circumstances.
party
Legal services; Family law
The technical legal word for the people who are part of the case and have a right to ask the court to rule one way or another. In family law cases, the parties are usually the people whose names are ...
creditor
Legal services; Family law
The person who loaned the money is the creditor; the person who borrowed the money is the debtor.
decree and judgment
Legal services; Family law
The final decision of the court in a family law case. If your case includes an order for money to paid by one side to the other as part of the property division, be sure that your final decree is ...
divorce
Legal services; Family law
The ending of a marriage by a court order. It can also refer to the contested proceeding used to divorce, as opposed to the un-contested proceeding used to divorce, called a dissolution.
