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Featured Article: Domestic violence
Domestic violence refers to physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological abuse between marital partners, former partners, and other adults who are, or have been, in close relationships. See more »
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Adoption
Adoption is a legal process by which people take as their own son or daughter a person not born to them.
See more »Alienation of affections
Alienation of affections is the act of a third person who turns the affection of one family member away from another.
See more »Alimony
Alimony, AL uh moh nee, is support money paid by one spouse (husband or wife) to the other during a legal separation or after a divorce.
See more »Annulment
Annulment is the declaration that a marriage never really existed, or was void from the beginning.
See more »Breach of promise
Breach of promise is the legal term for breaking an agreement to marry.
See more »Domestic violence
Domestic violence refers to physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological abuse between marital partners, former partners, and other adults who are, or have been, in close relationships.
See more »Euthanasia
Euthanasia, YOO thuh NAY zhuh, is the practice of painlessly ending the lives of people who have incurable, painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps.
See more »Foster care
Foster care provides children or adults with supervision and a place to live outside their usual home setting.
See more »Guardian
Guardian, in law, is a person appointed by a court to care for another person called a ward, or for another person's property, or both.
See more »Living will
Living will is a document that states the kind of medical care an individual would want or not want if, due to injury or disease, the person could not communicate his or her wishes.
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