Family Law

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

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract.

• Extraction

• Quid Pro Quo

• Divorce

• Managed Visitation

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

What is the purpose of family laws?

• To make jobs for lawyers and law enforcement

• To protect the innocent and especially children

• The Constitution mandates these laws

Which statement best explains "annulment"?

• Annulling a marriage is as though it is completely erased, legally, and it declares that the marriage never technically existed and was never valid.

• Annulling a marriage is the same as divorce in most states.

• Annulling a marriage is not a legal term.

• Annulling a marriage is a divorce that also includes extensive protection orders for the partner suing for divorce.

Which of the following is a sign of an unhealthy relationship?

• Cards and gifts on special occasions

• Feel like you can't be yourself

• Calls to check to see if you made it home safely

• Spends time getting to know your family

Family law tries to ensure each of the following, EXCEPT:

• people receive their due inheritances

• both partners take care of children until they are 21

• alimony is paid to a partner who cannot support themselves after a divorce

• children are not neglected or abused

When one partner abandons the family this is:

• separation

• desertion

• adultery

• annulment