Family Life Issues - Family Laws

Entitles workers 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year following the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a family member with a serious health condition

• Child Labor Laws

• Desertion

• Family Medical Leave Act of 1993

• Child Support/Child Custody

Protects the young person’s right to get an education without undue pressure to work long hours –

• Child Support/Child Custody

• Child Labor Law

• Adoption

• Desertion

If a married person disappears for a certain period of time, the spouse is entitled to freedom from the marriage through this kind of divorce (average time is five to seven years)

• Community Property

• Desertion

• Separate Property

• Managed Visitation

Both parties must be at least 18 years of age to enter into this legal relationship without parental consent.

• Mutual Fund Investment

• Adoption

• Marriage

• McDonald Franchise

Any property which is acquired through the labors of either spouse during their marriage.

• Prenuptial Agreement

• Separate Property

• Community Property

• Real Property

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract.

• Extraction

• Quid Pro Quo

• Divorce

• Managed Visitation

Property which can be positively shown to have been owned prior to marriage.

• Separate Property

• Community Property

• Reserved Property

• Relevant Property

Parents are legally responsible for the financial support of their children until the children are 18 years of age.

• Common Law Accountability

• Child Support/Child Custody

• Law of Minority

• Law of Majority

Laws allowing couples to add children to their families which may or may not be blood relations.

• Foster Care System

• Adoption

• Wayfair and Stranger Support

• Immigration and Naturalization

Family roles in society are influenced by which of the following?

• Religious beliefs

• Place of employment

• Size of the family

• Types of food eaten