Family Law

Question 1

Valid marriage requirements – CALF SAW

Answer 1

C- Consanguinity including first cousins prohibited
A- Already married prohibition
L- License Required (3 days days prior and used within 60 days)
F- File marriage certificate with state

S- Solemnization by judge, commissioner or ordained clergy member)
A- Age of majority required
W- Witnesses to validation (2)

Question 2

Registered Domestic Partnership – SURE

Answer 2

S- Share household
U- Unmarried to another
R- Registration required in state
E- Eighteen or older

Question 3

Grounds for declaration of marriage invalidity – DAFT LUV

Answer 3

D- Duress
A- Already married
F- Fraud
T- Too closely related

L- Lacked capacity
U- Underage
V- Void out of state marriage

Question 4

In dissolution court must – IVD

Answer 4

I- Identify property of marital estate
V- Value marital property
D- Distribute property

Question 5

Prenuptial agreements – FOG

Answer 5

F- Full disclosure of material facts
O- Opportunity for counsel
G- Good faith required

Question 6

Factors affecting a “just and equitable” distribution – DEP

Answer 6

D- Duration of marriage
E- Economic circumstances
P- Property amount

Question 7

Parenting negative factors – HARA

Answer 7

H- History of domestic violence
A- Abuse of child
R- Refusal of parental responsibility
A- Abandonment of child (<2 years)

Question 8

Child support law – SODA THIEF

Answer 8

S- Standard calculation
O- Other expenses
D- Deviations from state support schedule
A- Adjustments and modifications

T- Transportation long-distance
H- Health care
I- life Insurance
E- Educational support
F- Federal tax dependency exemptions

Question 9

(Highly Tested) Best interest of child custody factors – WISH

Answer 9

W- Wishes of child and parents
I- Integration of child into home and community and physical proximity of parents
S- Sharing of love and affection with other parent
H- Health, physical and mental, of the parties including credible evidence of child or spousal abuse

Question 10

(Highly tested) Common Law Marriages

– CACH

Answer 10

C- Capacity to enter into a marital contract
A- a present Agreement to be married
C- Cohabitation
H- Holding out a marital relationship to the community

Question 11

(Highly Tested) Granting alimony award – DFC

Answer 11

D- marital Duration
F- parties Financial resources and needs
C- marital Contributions

Question 12

Parenting plans allocate — CDS

Answer 12

C- Child financial support
D- Decision-making powers
S- residential Schedules