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| a contract by two married individuals who have seperated or are about to that covers support, custody, property division and other terms of their separation. |
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| tending to encourage or contribute to divorce |
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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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| an agreement to commit fraud |
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| coercion; acting under the pressure of an unlawful act or threat. |
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| as between two strangers who are looking our for their own self-interets. at a distance; without trusting the other's fairness;free of personal bias or control. |
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| money or ther property paid to one's spouse after seperation or divorce. |
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| distribution of property accumulated by spouses |
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| released; forgiven so that the debt is no longer owed. |
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| Conditional; dependent on something that may not happen. |
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| a lump sum payment of alimony |
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| property is delivered by one person to another who will hold it until a designated condition or contingency occurs. |
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| obligation by a guarantor to pay a second party if a third party defaults in its obligation to the second party. |
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| a fixed sum payable to an individual at a specified intervals for a limited period of time or for life. |
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| a method of holding property by which legal title is given to the trustee for the beneficiary. |
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| support payments limited to the time needed to return to self sufficiency through employment or job training |
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| a gift of personal property in a will |
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| a gift of real property in a will |
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| property one spouse aquired before marriage; or during the marraige by gift, will, or intestate succession. |
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| nonseperate property acquired during the marriage. |
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| property from deceased who did not leave a valid will. |
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| placing funds from different sources into the same account. |
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| property owned equallby by 2 or more persons with the right of survivorship. |
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| when owner dies, their share goes to other owners bypassing the estate. |
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| joint tenancy by husband and wife. |
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| property owned by 2 or more persons with or without equal share and no right of survivorship. |
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| each spouse has 1/2 interest since accquired during marriage, regardless of title or who earned it. includes separate property that the parties have agreed to treat as community property. |
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| property acquired during the marriage that can be owned by the sopuse who earned it. |
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| volunatry change of community property into seperate property and vice versa. |
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| pertaining to high standard of care that must be exercised on behalf of another. |
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| Property acquired during the marriage in a noncommunity state thout would have been community property ir it had been acquired ina community porperty state. |
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| the fair, but not necessarily equal division of all marital property in a common law propety state. |
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| mixing of blending of all property, however acquired, to achieve greater equality. |
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| waste, destroy, or squander. |
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| fixed so that it cannot be take away by future events or conditions; accrued so that you now have a right to present or future possession or enjoyment. |
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| qualified domestic relations order |
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| a court order that allow a nonemployee to reach pension benefits of an employee or former employee to satisfy a support or other marital obligation to the nonemployee. |
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| a nonemployee entitle to receive pension enefits of an employee or former employee pursant to a qualified domestic realtions order. |
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| the amount of money an individual would have to be given now to produce or generate a certain amount of money in a designated perios of time. |
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| an equitable remedy in which a person is restored to his or her original position prior to the loss or injury. Restoring to the plaintiff the value of what he or she parted with. |
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| the favorable reputation of a business that causes it to generate additional business. |
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| (a) to determine the tax consequences of something; (b) the tax consequences of something |
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| the person designated in a will to carry out the terms of the will and handle related matters. |
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| to obtain a desgnated share of a deceased sopuse's estate in spite of what the latter provided or failed to provide for the surviving spouse in a will. |
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| a clause in an agreement that the parties will not bother each other. |
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| Uniform interstate family support act (UIFSA) |
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| a state law on establishing and enforcing support obliagations against someone who does not live in the same state as the person to whom the support is owed. |
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| the personal jurisdiction that a state acquires over a nonresident defendant because os his or her purposeful contact with the state. |
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| a state agency that attempts to enforce child-support obligations. |
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| the state in which a support case is filed in order to forward it to another (responding) state for the enforcement proceedings under the UIFSA. |
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| the state to which a support case is forwarded. (UIFSA) |
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| continuing, exclusive jurisdiciton (cej) |
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| once a court acquires proper jurisdiction to make an order, the case remains open and only that court can modify the order. |
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| the state where the child has lived with a parent for at leat six consecutive months immediately before the case befing in court, or since birth if less than six months old. |
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| a required method of determing the amount of child support htat must be paid. |
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| one who has a legal obligation |
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| the person to who the legal obligation is owed. |
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| payments that are due but have not been made. |
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| income that will be assumed to be available regardless of whether it is actually available. |
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| to transfer right or property. |
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| state parent locator service (SPLS) |
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| a state government agency that helps locate parents who fail to pay child support. |
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| federal parent locator service (FPLS) |
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| a federal government agency that helps locate parents who fail to pay child support, particularly in interstate cases. They can also help in parental kidnaping cases. |
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| family violence indicator (FVI) |
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| a designation place on a participant in a child-support case indication that he or she may be a victim of child abuse or domestic violence. |
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| qualified medical child support order (QMCSO) |
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| a court order requiring that a group health plan provide benefits for the child of a parent covered under the plan. |
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| the collection or seizure of property by a marshal or sheriff with a writ of execution. |
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| a court order designed to protect a person from harm or harassment. |
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| the basic itme needed by family members to maintain a standard of living. |
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| adjusted gross income (AGI) |
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| the total amount of income received by a taxpayer less allowed deductions. |
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| to make substantial alimony payment shortly after the separation or divorce. |
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| tax liability will be recalculated when the parties imporperly fromt load alimony dedcutions. |
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| a former spouse will not be liable for taxes and penalties owed on prior joint returns if she or she can prove that at the tie they signed the return they didn't know or had reason to believe the other spouse had understated the taxes due. |
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| if both spouses earn substantially the same income, they pay more taxes when filing a joint return they if they could file as single. |
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