Tag: Marriage
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Dower By Common Law
Dower By Common Law in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982The ordinary kind of dower in English and American law, consisting of a life interest in one third of the lands the husband or wife was seized in fee at any time during the […]
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Desertion
Desertion in United States Desertion Definition Abandonment; the abandonment of a duty or of a person as to whom the deserter is charged with a duty; as desertion by a seaman, or a soldier, or by a husband of his wife. As a cause for divorce, is an unwarranted departure from the conjugal […]
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Cruelty
Cruelty in United States Cruelty Definition Legal cruelty is such conduct on the part of one spouse as vrill endanger the life, limb, or health of the other, or create a reasonable apprehension of bodily harm. 36 Ga. 817. And may consist of duress or threats tending to injury to health, 39 L. […]
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Antenuptial Contract
Antenuptial Contract in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A contract (in U.S. law) made before marriage. The property rights of the prospective husband or wife can be determined by contract. For example, there have been instances where a […]
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Annulment Of Marriage
Annulment Of Marriage in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A judicial decision that makes a marriage void and of no effect from its beginning. A basis for annulment would be a misrepresentation that amounts to fraud (in U.S. law). […]
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Defense of Marriage Act
Defense of Marriage Act in the United States Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec on the Supreme Court and issue of standing: Yet the question of whether the proponents of the legislation had sufficient adversity and injury (the California Supreme Court ruled that they did) that was […]