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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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Broker
Legal services; Family law
An individual who coordinates various services providers needed to accomplish a legal objective such as adoption.
Pre-marital agreement
Legal services; Family law
These are private contracts that cover spousal support, property division, and related matters in event of separation, death, or dissolution of marriage.
Polygyny
Legal services; Family law
The marriage of one husband with several wives, is called as polygyny.
Placage
Legal services; Family law
A recognised extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of African, Indian, and Creole descent.
Shim-pua marriage
Legal services; Family law
A Taiwanese tradition of arranged marriage, in which poor family would sell a young daughter to a richer family for labour.
Open marriage
Legal services; Family law
A marriage in which rhe partners agree that each is free to engage in extramarital relationship, without regarding this as infidelity.
Sororate marriage
Legal services; Family law
A marriage in which a man marries his wife's sister, usually after the wife is dead or has proved infertile.
