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Glossary of Family Law Terms
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INJUNCTION:
AImpeachment: The act of proving a witness is not credible due to inconsistent statements or other conflicting evidence.
IN CAMERA: When proceedings are held in the chambers of a judge without the participating parties. This is usually the procedure followed when children testify.
INCOME AND EXPENSE DECLARATION: The form completed by a parent under oath stating that parent's income, assets, expenses and liabilities. The document is used to help determine child support to be paid by the non - custodial parent.
INCOMPATIBILITY: The state of a marriage in which the spouses no longer have the mutual desire to live together and/or stay married, and is thus a ground for divorce (dissolution) in most states even though the other spouse may disagree.
INCOMPATIBLE: 1) Inconsistent. 2) Unmatching. 3) Unable to live together as husband and wife due to irreconcilable differences. In no-fault divorce states, if one of the spouses desires to end the marriage, that fact proves incompatibility, and a divorce (dissolution) will be granted even though the other spouse does not want a divorce. The term also has the general meaning that two people do not get along with each other.
INCORPORATION: Part of civil law, making one document part of another. For example, the Agreement becomes part of the Decree in Divorce.
INJUNCTION: A court order preventing someone from doing a particular act which is likely to cause physical, mental injury or property loss of another individual.
INTANGIBLE ASSETS: Items of personal property; examples; franchises, trademarks, patents, copyrights, goodwill.
INTANGIBLE VALUE: A value that cannot be imputed to any part of the physical property.
INTENTIONAL
INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS:
Intentionally causing severe emotional distress by extreme or outrageous conduct.
INTERCEPT: A process by which CSE agencies take part of a non-custodial parent's unemployment insurance payments, disability insurance payments, income tax returns and lottery gains to pay child support arrearages owed by the non-custodial parent.
INTERLOCUTORY HEARING: Any hearing at which a pretrial or court ruling is requested.
INTERROGATORIES: A group of questions served upon the opposing party to gain knowledge pertaining to the issues in the matrimonial proceedings.
INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT: A listing and valuation of properties owned by the parties seeking a divorce.
INVESTMENT ANALYSIS: A process in which the attractiveness of an investment is measured by analyzing
ratios.
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