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Family Law Chs. 12, 13 vocab/concept review

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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The federal Equal _____ Opportunity Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status in a credit application.
______ violence includes actual or threatened injury or abuse by one member of a family or household on another member.
____ 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.
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.
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 _____."
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_____ 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in ______ on the basis of, among other characteristics, sex.
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.
A man's consent to have his ____ on the child's birth certificate creates a presumption of PATERNITY.
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.
_____ is the biological fatherhood of a child.
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.
Many states require nonmarital children to establish paternity prior to death of the father in order to inherit from a father who ____ intestate.