Family Exam

Question 1

Adultery

Answer 1

Voluntary sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than his or her spouse.

Question 2

Annulment

Answer 2

A court ruling that a relationship was never a marriage.

Question 3

Applicant

Answer 3

The spouse initiating a divorce action, as opposed to the respondent.

Question 4

Best interest of the child

Answer 4

The principle upon which a judge makes a decision regarding custody of and access to children.

Question 5

Child abuse

Answer 5

Any behaviour that endangers a childs physical, mental, or moral well being, includimg physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect.

Question 6

Common law relationship

Answer 6

A close relationship between two people who live together as a married couple but who are not legally married.

Question 7

Custody

Answer 7

In criminal law, actual imprisonment or physical detention; in family law, the care and control of a child awarded by court.

Question 8

Divorce

Answer 8

The legal dissolution or ending of a marriage.

Question 9

Marriage Breakdown

Answer 9

The only ground for divorce under the Divorce Act, 1985

Question 10

Monogamy

Answer 10

The state of being married to only one person at a time.

Question 11

Separation

Answer 11

A partial dissolution of a marriage in which the spouses live separate and apart.

Question 12

Solemnization of Marriage

Answer 12

The various steps and procedures, including the ceremony, leading to the marriage.

Question 13

Cohabitation

Answer 13

The act of living together without being married.

Question 14

Domestic contract

Answer 14

The cohabitation agreement, marriage contract, or separation agreement; made between two partners in a relationship and concerning property and obligations to each other.

Question 15

Equalization

Answer 15

The process of dividing the value of property equally between spouses when they divorce.

Question 16

Family Asset

Answer 16

Property owned by one or both spouses and ordinarily used and enjoyed for family purposes by the spouses and/or any children; as opposed to non-family assets.

Question 17

Maintenance

Answer 17

Another term for spousal support.

Question 18

Matrimonial Home

Answer 18

The home in which the spouses live during their marriage.

Question 19

Net family property

Answer 19

The total value of the couples assets, less any debts, on the date of separation; a figure needed to calculate any equalization payments.

Question 20

Self-sufficient

Answer 20

To be able to support oneself financially; a consideration of the Divorce Act that each spouse has an obligation to support herself or himself within a reasonable period of time after divorce.

Question 21

Separate property system

Answer 21

An approach to the division of family property that allows each spouse to own and control property as though a single person.

Question 22

Spousal support

Answer 22

Financial assistance paid by one spouse to another after a relationship or marriage breakdown; also called maintenance.