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| something of value that is exchanged between parties |
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| giving up a right to privilege by explicitly rejecting it or by failing to take appropriate steps to claim it at the proper time. |
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| shocking to the conscience; substantially unfair. |
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| the principles inherent in the customs, morals, and notions of justice that prevail in a state; the foundation of public laws; the principles that are naturally and inherently right and just. |
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| pertaining to unlawful sexual relations; vulgar or tawdry |
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| a person who shares living quarters with the householder and has a close personal relationship with (but is not related to) the householder. |
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| a nonlegal term for payments made by one nonmarried party to another after they cease living together, usually because the entered an express or implied contract to do so while they were cohabiting. |
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| a contract that is not created by an express agreement between the parties but is inferred as a matter of reason and justice form their conduct and the surrounding circumstances. |
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| a contract created by law to avoid unjust enrichment. |
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| receiving property or benefit from another when in fairness and equity the recipient should make restitution of the property or provide compensation for the benefit, even though there was no express or implied promise to do so. |
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| a legal entity that exists when one person holds property for the benefit of another. |
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| a voluntary contract between two (or more) persons to use theri resources in a business or other venture, with the understanding that they will proportionately share losses and profits. |
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| an express or implied agreement to participate in a common enterprise in which the parties have a mutual right of control. |
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| a declaration by a court that a valid marriage never existed |
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| a declaration by a court that a validly entered marriage is dissolved so that the parties are no longer married to each other. |
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| a declaration by a court that parties can live separately and apart even though they are still married to each other. |
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| a marriage that is invalid only if someone challenges it and a court declares it invalid. |
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| a marriage that is invalid whether of not a court declares it so. |
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| invalid from the very beginning |
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| approval retroactively by agreement, conduct, or an inaction that can reasonably be interpreted as an approval. |
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| the right to bring a case and seek relief from a court. |
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| wrongdoing or other inappropiate behavior that would make it unfair or inequitable to allow a person to assert a right or a defense he or she would normally have. |
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| entering or attempting to enter a second marriage when a prior marriage is still valid. |
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1. Multiple simultaneous marriages;
2. having more than one spouse at the same time. |
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| the presumption that a spouse is dead after being missing for a designated number of years. |
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| a presumption is an assumption of fact that can be drawn when another fact or set of facts is established. The presumption is rebuttable if a party can introduce evidence to try to show that the assumption is false. |
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| relationship by marriage, not by blood. |
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| sexual intercourse between two people who are too closely related to each other as defined by statute. |
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| below the require minimum age to enter a designated relationship or to perform a particular task. |
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| the inability to have sexual intercourse, often due to an inabililty to achieve or maintain an erection. |
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| to engage in sexual intercourse |
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| inability to have children; infertile. |
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| to engage in sexual intercourse for the first time as spouses. |
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| did the matter go to the heart of essence of the relationship. |
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| if a specific event had not occurred, would the result have been different. |
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| knowingly making false statements of present fact with the intention that the present fact with the intention that the plaintiff rely on the statement. the plaintiff is harmed by his/her reasonable reliance o the statement. |
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| the state where a person is domiciled. |
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| to formally declare that children born out of wedlock are legitimate. |
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| interspousal tort immunity |
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| one spouse cannot sue another for designated torts that grow out of the marriage relationship. |
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| the control and care of an individual |
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| the legal right to the custody of an individual |
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| termination of parental rights(TPR) |
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| judicial declaration that end the legal relationship between parent and child. The parent can no longer make decision or has any duties to the child |
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| legal process where an adpotive parent assumes rights of a natural parent |
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| biological fatherhood of child |
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| child welfare service that provides shelter and substitute family care when a child's own family cannot care for it. Should last for a temporary period of time. Adoption is neither desirable or possible. or while adoption is being considered. |
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| a person who marries a natural father or mother of a child but is not one of the child's natural parents. |
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| an adoption in which a child is placed for adoption by a public agency responsible for adoptions or by an approved private adoption agency |
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| an adoption in which a child is placed for adoption by its natural parent, often with the help of facilitators. |
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an adoption that involves a payment
beyond reasonable expenses in order to facilitate the adoption. "baby buying" |
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| the adoption of a child by a partner of a natural parent who does not give up his/her own parental rights. |
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| a formal request that the court take some action |
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| choice of court to try the case when more than one court has subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case. |
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| demonstrating abuse or neglect that is substantially detrimental to a child. |
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| legally dependent on one's parent or legal guardian. |
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| a place where the father of a child can register so that he can be notified of a proposed adoption of the child. |
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| a central adoption file that could be used to release identifying information about, and allow contact between adult adoptees and biological parents. |
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| a denial of consent to have contact between the adoptee and the biological parent, although permission for the release of identifying information might be given |
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| an adoption in which the natural parent maintains certain kinds of contact with his or her child after the adoption. |
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| for purposes of inheritance, a child will be considered the adopted child of a person who made a contract to adopt the child but failed to go through the formal adoption procedures. |
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| a tort action seeking damages for wrongfully stating or failing to disclose to prospective adoptive parents available facts on the health or other condition of the adoptee that would be relevant to the decision on whether to adopt. |
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