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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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Negligence
Legal services; Family law
Unreasonable conduct that causes injury or damage to someone to whom you owe a duty of reasonable care.
Incompatibility
Legal services; Family law
A no-fault ground for divorce that exists when there is such discord between the husband and wife that it is impossible for them to live together.
Palimony
Legal services; Family law
A nonlegal term for payments made by one nonmarried party to another after they cease living together.
In camera
Legal services; Family law
In the judge's private chambers; not in open court is termed as "in camera".
Inheritance
Legal services; Family law
Property received from someone who dies without leaving a valid will.
Indemnity
Legal services; Family law
The right to have another person pay you the amount you were forced to pay.
Adoption
Legal services; Family law
A court action in which an adult assumes legal and all other responsibilities for a child, creating a permanent parent-child relationship.
