Legal Notes
Legal study Syllabus notes
FAMILY LAW
Key Terms:
Adoption: The taking of one’s child into one’s family, creating a parent to child relationship, and giving him or her all the rights and privileges of one’s own child.
Annulment: A declaration by court that a supposed marriage is in fact void.
Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO): A court order that aims to protect the applicant from violence and other forms of intimidation or abuse perpetrated by a family member
Assault: A criminal offence involving the infliction of physical force or the threat of physical force
Autonomy: Freedom if the will, self-government; the ability to act without outside interference
Blended family: A family that is created when a parent remarries; it includes the stepmother or stepfather and stepchildren
Breach: A fail to obey
Decree nisi: A Family Court order that is made to signal the intended termination of a marriage
Degree absolute: a final decree of the dissolution of marriage
De Facto Relationship: A relationship where the partners act as a married couple but are not legally married
Divorce: The legal termination of a marriage by an official court decision
Domestic Violence: Any act, whether verbal or physical, of a violent or abusive nature hat takes place within a domestic relationship
Ex-nuptial: A Latin term meaning ‘outside marriage’; an ex-nuptial child is a child orn outside a marriage
Extended family: A family that includes individuals related through marriage or parentage and not limited to one couple and their children; in some cultures, close family friends are regarded as members of the extended family.
Injunction: A court order directing someone to do something or prohibiting someone from doing something
Intestacy: the situation in which a person dies within a legally valid will
Maintenance: A financial payment made by one spouse to contribute to the care and welfare of the other spouse and/or children of the marriage
Marriage: The union of
FAMILY LAW
Key Terms:
Adoption: The taking of one’s child into one’s family, creating a parent to child relationship, and giving him or her all the rights and privileges of one’s own child.
Annulment: A declaration by court that a supposed marriage is in fact void.
Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO): A court order that aims to protect the applicant from violence and other forms of intimidation or abuse perpetrated by a family member
Assault: A criminal offence involving the infliction of physical force or the threat of physical force
Autonomy: Freedom if the will, self-government; the ability to act without outside interference
Blended family: A family that is created when a parent remarries; it includes the stepmother or stepfather and stepchildren
Breach: A fail to obey
Decree nisi: A Family Court order that is made to signal the intended termination of a marriage
Degree absolute: a final decree of the dissolution of marriage
De Facto Relationship: A relationship where the partners act as a married couple but are not legally married
Divorce: The legal termination of a marriage by an official court decision
Domestic Violence: Any act, whether verbal or physical, of a violent or abusive nature hat takes place within a domestic relationship
Ex-nuptial: A Latin term meaning ‘outside marriage’; an ex-nuptial child is a child orn outside a marriage
Extended family: A family that includes individuals related through marriage or parentage and not limited to one couple and their children; in some cultures, close family friends are regarded as members of the extended family.
Injunction: A court order directing someone to do something or prohibiting someone from doing something
Intestacy: the situation in which a person dies within a legally valid will
Maintenance: A financial payment made by one spouse to contribute to the care and welfare of the other spouse and/or children of the marriage
Marriage: The union of