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Family Law Chs 12, 13, 14 vocab/concept review

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A paternity proceeding requires personal jurisdiction ____ the putative father, meaning that the service of process must be made on the defendant in person within the forum state or by the authority of an applicable long-arm statute.
Many states deny a third party ____ to bring a paternity action regarding a child of married parents where both parties of the married couple oppose the action.
At the _____ stage of a court case involving child maltreatment in which the state is intervening to take steps to protect the child from further harm, the court determines if it has subject-matter jurisdiction by deciding whether the facts of the case come within the definition of abuse, neglect, or dependency used in the state as established by statute and court opinion.
______ violence includes actual or threatened injury or abuse by one member of a family or household on another member.
There was a time in our history when a married woman could engage in ____ of the following activities without the consent of her husband: • Make her own will • Own her own property • Make a contract in her own name • Be a juror • Vote • Sue someone (and be sued) • Execute a deed • Keeping her own earnings
prohibits discrimination in ______ on the basis of, among other characteristics, sex.
Options the court has at the ______ stage if it finds that child maltreatment has occurred include • Leave the child with the current parent or other caregiver under the supervision of child protective services or a child welfare agency and require counseling or other conditions designed to prevent future maltreatment • Place the child in foster care or in an institution • Begin proceedings to terminate the parental rights of the parent so that the child can be adopted
Most states give minors the right to _____their contracts if they do so while they are still minors or within a reasonable time after they reach the age of majority.
A donor of semen to someone other than his wife has no parental rights or duties to a child child conceived through artificial insemination unless the donor and the mother have entered into a ________ agreement to the contrary.
Many states require nonmarital children to establish paternity prior to death of the father in order to inherit from a father who ____ intestate.
Minor students have _____ _____ rights, for example, the right to wear armbands protesting a war or to display banners, so long as such conduct does not substantially disrupt school activities or promote illegal activities such as drug use.
____ testing can yield results showing that the tested man is either not the biological father of the child, or that there is a probability greater than 99.9% that the tested man is the biological father.
When a child is conceived via artificial _____ with the sperm of a donor and with the consent of the husband, the husband is treated in law as if he were the natural father of a child thereby conceived.
The presumption of legitimacy is an evidentiary ____ whereby a child born to a married woman is presumed to be a child of the marriage unless conclusively proven otherwise.
The federal Equal _____ Opportunity Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status in a credit application.
A search of an adult is allowed under the Fourth Amendment only if there is probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed. For the search to be constitutional, there must be at least a fair probability or a substantial chance of discovering evidence of criminal activity by the adult. A search of a student is allowed under the Fourth Amendment if there is reasonable suspicion of illicit activity by the student. For the search to be constitutional, there must be at least a moderate chance of finding evidence of wrongdoing by the student.
Students have the following ____ rights when the school wants to expel them or suspend them long term: • The right to receive written notice of the charges against them. • The right to a hearing on the charges to determine whether they are valid. • The right to an impartial hearing officer. (The latter cannot be directly involved in the matter. For example, the teacher who brought the charges against the student cannot be the hearing officer.) • The right to be represented by counsel at the hearing. • The right to present evidence and to confront the accuser at the hearing.
A man's consent to have his ____ on the child's birth certificate creates a presumption of PATERNITY.
In both historically common-law and historically community-property states, most courts now use versions of _____ distribution for property division upon divorce. The just and fair, but not necessarily equal, division of property between spouses upon divorce.
The liberty interest in the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution includes the fundamental right of fit parents to raise their children, including the control of their _______.
The legal status of a married woman whereby her civil existence for many purposes ____ with (was covered up by) that of her husband is .called COVERTURE
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Where the voluntary conduct of a mother will preclude her from later denying paternity of putative father who has relied on her conduct, the result is "paternity by _____."
Child ____ is the failure of a parent or other caregiver to provide the basic needs of a child, including physical needs (e.g., food and shelter), emotional needs, medical needs, and educational needs.
Child _____ is the serious physical, emotional, or sexual mistreatment of a child that is not the result of accident or circumstances beyond the control of the parent or guardian.
_____ grouping tests can not conclusively establish paternity but can effectively demonstrate nonpaternity, where the putative father's blood type and child's blood types show that the putative father could not be the biological father.
Most states have enacted _____ women's property acts, which remove disabilities married women suffered at common law. Under the terms of such statutes, married women are given the right to enter contracts, own and dispose of their property, and be parties to litigation (suing and being sued) independent of their husbands. Without such laws, a married woman would not have a separate legal existence.
Legal independence of one’s parent or legal guardian, achieved through a court proceeding or by operation of law upon some qualifying event, such as reaching age of majority.
Nonmarital children can be legitimated through ______, whereby the father publicly recognizes or holds out the nonmarital child as his, by marriage, or by legitimation proceedings.
_____ is the biological fatherhood of a child.
The Fourth Amendment rights to be protected from search and seizure are more ____ for minor students than for adults.
States that have adopted a form of the Uniform ______ Act, and most other states, have passed laws providing that a child born to parents who are not married to each other has the same rights as a child born to parents who are married to each other.
A _____ father is the man believed to be the biological father of a child but who has not yet been medically or legally declared to be the father.
A man's marriage to the mother at the time of the child's conception or birth or within 300 days after the marriage is terminated creates a ______ of paternity.
A ____ _____ law protects a woman from prosecution if she abandons a baby at designated locations such as a hospital or doctor’s office where it can receive immediate medical care.
Minors can own real _____ and most personal ____ in their own names.
A victim of domestic violence can obtain from a court a ______ order which forbids the defendant from being within a designated number of feet of the alleged victim or from contacting the person except for approved reasons.
A ____ fide occupational qualification is a rare, and difficult to prove, job-related permissible gender discrimination, necessary to the normal operation of a particular business or enterprise.
In 1992 the Supreme Court reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. ______ the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision holding that a woman has a constitutional right to terminate her pregnancy prior to viability.