Legal Terminology 2 - Section 3

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3 ways to legally dissolve marriage

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1. annulment
2. seperation
3.divorce

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common law marriage meets 3 conditions

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1. must live together legally
2. must verbally affirm to each other that they are married
3. must present themselves to community as husband and wife

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primary grounds for annulment

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bigamy
- void marriage, marriage prohibited by law
- duress
-fraud
-pregnancy by someone other than husband
- incurreable venereal disease
- mental illness at the time of marriage
- physical incapacity

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divorce may be granted on grounds

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-fraud
-duress
-adultry
-cruelty
-desertion
-alcohol or drug addiction
-failure t provide support
-felonly conviction by spouse

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condonation

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forgiveness for actions

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alternative defenses to divorce

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-connivance
-recrimination

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to help decide custody issues courts consider

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-financial physical and emotional soundness of the parrent seeking custody
- physical well being of their children
-emotional social and economic well-being of children
- the children's own wishes

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family law

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branch of legal practice that deals with domestic relations

marriage, divorce, support, custody and adoption

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family

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group of persons living under 1 roof and 1 chief person or head

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family court

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issues involving domestic relations brought before this branch of court

jurisdiction varies from state to state

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A. israelii causes what?

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oral/facial abscesses that drain through sinus tracts in the skin

"famer's lung": Inhalation of actinomycete spores. It is a type III (early) and IV (late) hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Since it involves type III and IV, granuloma formation can occur.

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wedlock

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state of marriage

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spouse

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person joined in marriage

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support

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provision for financial or material maintenance

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curtesy

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right of one spouse to use and enjoy other's property

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consortium

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rights in wedlock both spouses agree to

companionship, love, affection, assistance, comfort, cooperation, and sexual relations

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loss of consortium

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loss of duties and rights thru injury or choice

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bigamy

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law prohibits marriage between close blood relatives or attempt to enter a new marriage contract while legally married to another person statute as crime

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solemnize

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states require officially designated authorities to join the 2 parties together in front of witnesses by performing a formal ceremony

often called ceremonial marriage

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solemnization of marriage

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performance of ceremony itself

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marriage license

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formal state authorization allowing the couple to marry

some states requiare blood test for certain disease before license can be obtained

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marriage certificate

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issued as proof that the marriage has been formally solemnized

signed by person who performs ceremony, spouses, and witnesses

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marital agreement

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(prior to marriage- entered into)

additional contract that establishes financial and property arrangements between spouses during marriage or in event of divorce or death

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prenuptial or antenuptial agreement

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agreement entered into prior to
marriage

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post nuptial

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agreement entered into after marriage

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common law marriage

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marriage not solemnized thru formal ceremony

Many states don't recognize these marriages others same legal effect as ceremonial marriage

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co-habitation

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live together

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annulment of marriages

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court order or deree declaring that no valid marriage ever existed

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seperation of spouses

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aka divorce from bed and board

doesn't terminate marriage contract but rather formally recognizes an end to co-habitation and determines issues related to property, support and children

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Primary TB (nonimmune host, usually child)

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Hilar nodes
Ghon focus, lower lobes
= Ghon complex

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disertion

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a willful permanent departure of 1 spouse without consent of the other or without having been wronged by other

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cruelty

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infliction of physical or mental pain or distress

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adultry

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intimate relations with person other than spouse

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divorce

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formal termination of marriage
aka dissolution of marriage
must be decreed by court

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absolute divorce or divorce a vincula matrimonli

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decree dissolves the marriage contract due to misconduct ie fraud, duress, adultry, cruelty, disertion, alchol or drug adiction, failure to provide support or felonly convictin of one spouse

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candonation

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defendant of divorce action may arge that spouse initiating the action forgave the conduct introduced as grounds for divorce

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connivance

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an argument that spouse suing for divorce assisted in the accomplishment of misconduct

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recrimination

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an argument that spouse bringing suit is also guilty of conduct that serves as grounds for divorce

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no-fault divorce

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statutes which allow the dissoltion of marriage without introducing fault

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incompatibility

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profound personality conflict that offers no hope for reconciliation

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reconciliation

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a renewal of friendly relations

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irretrievable breakdown of the marriage or irreconcilible differences

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discension and conflicts of personality that have beyond reasonable expectation of reconciliation

may also serve as grounds for no-fault divorce

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foreign divorce

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travel to another state or country to get/obtain divorce

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alimony

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an allowance for support and maintenance awarded to a divorced spouse and paid in regular installlments

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palimony

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a form of alimony awarded following termination of common law marriage or other long term co-habitation

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arrears

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alimony and other support payments past due

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merger in judgement

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support payments establishe4d under seperation are cancelled and replaced by alimony awarded thru this court action

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community or marital property

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issues involved in shared property

shared property community property consists of earnings or property acquired by either spouse during marriage some states held equally

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deed of partition

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real pro;erty split into seperate lots

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equitable distribution

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certain states allow the court to distribute all community property on a fair and equitable basis

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child support

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financial support contributing economic maintenance and educatin of child

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paternity suit or affiliation proceeding

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legal action that may be brought in order to establish paternity and compel the father pay support

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child

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not strictly defined by courts but usually synonymous with legal definition of infant

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paternity

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fatherhood

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HLA test

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test for similarity of leukocyte antigens to determine paternity

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custody

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care control and daily maintenance of children

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temporary custody of children

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granted to one parent on short term basis pending the outcome of a divorce or seperation in action

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sole custody

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single parent

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visitation

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in sole custody other parent has right to spend time with child at times and places agreed upon by parents or court ordered

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divided custody

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court may order child to live with each parent part of the year

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joint custody

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arrangement with both parencts to share responsibility of maintenance and education of child

and jointly make decisions about child welfare

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physical custody

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parent w/ who child primarily resides has this

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surrogate motherhood

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a woman who agrees to carry a child of another woman or of a man married to another woman

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child stealing or parental kidnapping

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parent abducting child who is in custody of another parent - crime

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child abuse

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bringing physical, sexual, verbal or emotional harm to a child neglect too

crime

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child abuse reporting acts

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state statutes that legal oblicate doctors, social workers, teachers and other health or public officals to report suspected incidents of abuse

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guardian ad litem

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close relative or public employee to act as this to protect childs interest during litigation can be apointed if parents deceased or incomacitated

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juvenile court

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juristiction over matters relating to children

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juvenile

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all children under the age of majority

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juvenile offender

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legal term used to describe a child who breaks the law
court may also have jurisdiction to place child in temporary home

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foster care

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temporarily placement of child in home of adult or family unrelated by blood

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foster child

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child placed in foster care

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foster parent

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each adult charged with temporarily providing care

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adoption

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permanent establishment of parent/child relationship by process of law

legal process rights and responsibilities transfer biological parents to adoptive

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equitable adoptio

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a child may legally enforce a promise to adopt him or her at least to degree that inheritance rights are guaranteed by person who made promise