Family law

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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Family law

A professional who is appointed to actually represent your children in the case. This means that he or she becomes a party to the case and may not always agree with the parents about what is in the ...

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The heading of a legal document that has the names of the parties, the court, the case number, and title of the case.

primary physical custody

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The technical term for when the children live with one parent more than 30% of the year, which comes out to 110 or more overnights and the other parent less than 30% of the year, or 110 or fewer ...

separate property

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Separate property is property and debt that is not considered marital property. It may be from before the marriage, or an inheritance or gift. Just because a party acquired property before marriage ...

domestic abuse

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Violence or abuse is a pattern of behavior used to establish power and control over another person through fear and intimidation, often including the threat or actual use of violence. Abuse of family ...

competent

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A competent person is mentally able to understand and file a court document and understand court proceedings.

prejudice

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A legal term which means to injure or damage someone's rights by some legal action. (For example, the term can be used like this: The plaintiff is not prejudiced by the court's decision to allow the ...