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  2. Family law - Wikipedia

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    Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations. [1] Overview

  3. Family - Wikipedia

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    Legal reforms to family laws have taken place in many countries during the past few decades. These dealt primarily with gender equality within marriage and with divorce laws. Women have been given equal rights in marriage in many countries, reversing older family laws based on the dominant legal role of the husband.

  4. Family rights - Wikipedia

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    The changing concept of family requires a subjective definition of what family entails. There is no contest that the relationship between husband and wife, [2] unmarried (de facto) partners, [3] parents and children, [4] siblings, [5] and 'near relatives' such as between grandparents and grandchildren [6] represents family as required under the right to family life.

  5. Immediate family - Wikipedia

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    The definition was to be expanded from "a remaining spouse, sexual cohabitant, partner, step-parent or step-child, parent-in-law or child-in-law, or an individual related by blood whose close association is an equivalent of a family relationship who was accepted by the deceased as a child of his/her family" to include "any person who had ...

  6. Joint and family-related rights: Joint filing of bankruptcy permitted; Joint parenting rights, such as access to children's school records; Family visitation rights for the spouse and non-biological children, such as to visit a spouse in a hospital or prison; Next-of-kin status for emergency medical decisions or filing wrongful death claims

  7. Family in the United States - Wikipedia

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    At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1980). Elder Jr, Glen H. "History and the family: The discovery of complexity." Journal of Marriage and the Family (1981): 489-519. online; Gutman, Herbert G. The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925 (Vintage, 1977). Hareven, Tamara K.

  8. Family court - Wikipedia

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    Family courts were originally created to be a Court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, including custody of children, and could disregard certain legal requirements as long as the petitioner/plaintiff came into court with "clean hands" and the request was reasonable, "quantum meruit". Changes in laws ...

  9. Family (U.S. census) - Wikipedia

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    A family is defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes as "a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption, and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family."