Family Law Flashcards
What is family law?
Statutes, court decisions, and provisions of the federal and state constitutions that relate to family relationships, rights, duties, and finances.
What is a Divorce?
A court decree that terminates a marriage; also known as marital dissolution.
What is Child Custody?
The care, control, and maintenance of a child, which a court may award to one of the parents following a Divorce or separation proceeding.
What is Child Support?
Simplified
Money ordered paid by either parent for the support and maintenance of children.
A payment that a noncustodial parent makes as a contribution to the costs of raising her or his child.
What is Personal Propery?
Everything that is the subject of ownership that does not come under the denomination of real property; any right or interest that an individual has in movable things.
What is Alimony?
Payment that a family court may order one person in a couple to make to the other person when that couple separates or divorces.
What are Visitation Rights?
In a Divorce or custody action, permission granted by the court to a noncustodial parent to visit his or her child or children. Custody may also refer to visitation rights extended to grandparents.
What is Property Settlement?
An agreement entered into by a Husband and Wife in connection with a Divorce that provides for the division of their assets between them.
What is Community Property?
The holdings and resources owned in common by a Husband and Wife.
What is another term for Premarital Agreement?
Prenuptial or Antenuptial
What is a Premarital Agreement?
A contract made in anticipation of marriage that specifies the rights and obligations of the parties. Such an agreement typically includes terms for property distribution in the event the marriage terminates.
What is income splitting?
The right, created by provisions of federal tax laws, given to married couples who file joint returns to have their combined incomes subject to an Income Tax at a rate equal to that which would be imposed if each had filed a separate return for one-half the amount of their combined income
What is Artificial Insemination?
The process by which a woman is medically impregnated using semen from her husband or from a third-party donor.
What is Surrogate Motherhood?
A relationship in which one woman bears and gives birth to a child for a person or a couple who then adopts or takes legal custody of the child; also called mothering by proxy.
What is Bifurcate?
To divide into two parts.
