Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Family Law marriage law family issues domestic relations

Family Law (also called marriage law) is an area of law that deals with family issues and domestic relations including:

      marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships;
      adoption and surrogacy
      child abuse and abduction
      the termination of the relationship and ancillary matters, including divorce, annulment, property settlements, alimony, custody and visitation, child support and alimony awards.
      award of minors
      paternity tests and paternity fraud

This list is not exhaustive and varies depending on the jurisdiction. In many jurisdictions in the United States, the family courts see busiest records. Litigants representative of all social and economic classes are parties within the system.

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