Family Law
The complete list of terms and definitions.
Family law is the body of law that deals with familial and domestic matters. These kinds of matters are typically those involving the family and children. Common family law cases deal with marriage and divorce, child custody, or child support. Family law can also deal with matters related to children, including juvenile law and child protective action. Below, you will find a complete list of commonly-used legal terminology within family law and their dictionary definitions.
- Abortion
- Adoption Decree
- Adoption Petition
- Adultery
- Age of Majority
- Alimony
- Alimony Pendente Lite
- Annulment
- Baby Boomers
- Best Interest of The Children
- Bigamy
- Breach of Promise to Marry
- Change of Circumstances
- Child Abuse
- Child Labor Laws
- Child Neglect
- Child Protective Services
- Child Selling
- Child Support
- Child's Home State
- Children's Rights
- Civil Union
- Collaborative Divorce
- Collusive Divorce
- Common Law Marriage
- Community Property
- Condonation
- Contempt of Custody Order
- Contempt of Support Order
- Criminal Conversation
- Curtesy
- Custodial Parent
- Custody Decree
- Custody Evaluation
- Default Divorce
- Delinquent Child
- Dependency Exemption
- Desertion
- Divided Custody
- Divisible Divorce
- Divorce
- Divorce Action
- Divorce Complaint
- Divorce Decree
- Divorce From Bed and Board
- Divorce Jurisdiction
- DNA test in Paternity Case
- Dower
- Duress
- Earning Capacity
- Emancipated Child
- Enforcing Support Orders
- Equitable Property Distribution
- Family Court
- Fault Divorce
- Foreign Divorce
- Foster Child
- Fraud or Failure to Make Full Disclosure
- Garnishment of Wages
- Grandparents' Custodial Rights
- Grounds for Divorce
- Guardianship
- Hague Convention
- Harassment
- Home Study Evaluation
- Impotence
- In Loco Parentis
- Incest
- Incompatibility
- Inherited Property
- Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights
- Irreconcilable Differences
- Joint Accounts
- Joint Custody
- Legal Capacity to Marry
- Legal Custody
- Legal Guardian
- Legal Separation
- Legitimation
- Living Separate and Apart
- Marital Communications Privilege
- Marital Debts
- Marital Property
- Marital Rape
- Marital Residence
- Marriage License
- Mediation
- Migratory Divorce
- Monogamy
- Mutual Releases
- No molestation
- No-Fault Divorce
- Non-custodial Parent
- Nonsupport
- Palimony
- Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act
- Parental Liability
- Parenting Coordinator
- Parenting Plan
- Paternity Proceedings
- Pension Plan
- Petition to Leave the State
- Petition to Modify Custody Order
- Petition to Modify Support
- Physical Abuse
- Physical Custody
- Postnuptial Agreement
- Prenuptial Agreement
- Property Settlement Agreement
- Protection From Abuse
- Protective Order
- Provocation
- Qualified Domestic Relations Order
- Reconciliation
- Recrimination
- Requirements for Marriage
- Restraint of Marriage
- Retirement Plan
- Same Sex Marriage
- Same Sex Rights of Custody of Children
- Separate Property
- Separation Agreement
- Shared Custody
- Social Security Benefits
- Sole Custody
- Split Custody
- Split Custody Calculator
- Spousal Support
- Stalking
- Step-child
- Supervised Visitation
- Support Conference
- Support of Parent
- Support Officer
- Support Order Calculation
- Surrogate Mother
- Surrogate Parenting Contracts
- Tax Returns
- Temporary Custody
- Tenants by the Entirety
- Tender Years Doctrine
- Total Disability
- U.N. Rights of Child
- Uncontested Divorce
- Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act
- Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act
- Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
- Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act
- Visitation Schedule
- Void and Voidable marriages
- Voluntary Termination of Parental Rights
- Waiting Period
- Ward
- Wishes of the Child
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