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Family Law - Coggle Diagram

- - - - interaction/relationship with parents, siblings, etc.
      - Adjustment to home, school, & community
      - Parents/child's wishes
      - Mental/physical health of individuals involved
  - - - Awarded to ensure adequate income for spouses whose economic dependency resulted from marriage
      - Types:
        Periodic
        Lump sum
        Rehabilitative
        Reimbursement
      - Terminates upon death or remarriage
    - - Classify
        
        Separate vs Marital property
        
        Mixed property
      - Value assets
      - Divide
        
        Community: all property acquired during marriage in half; separate property excluded
        
        Equitable of all: all property owned divided
        
        Equitable of marital: separate property excluded
    - - Based on state formula (parent's income, age of child, & number of children)
      - Modifiable based on substantial change in circumstances
      - Terminantes upon death or emancipation
- - - - License
      - Soemnization
    - - Recognized by minority of States but other state must recognize valid marriage of original (Full Faith and Credit Clause)
      - Requirements (state-specific):
        Consent
        Cohabitation
        Holding out as husband and wife
        Legal capacity
    - - Parental consent required if under 18; state may require court approval if under 16 and prohibited under 14
      - Not closely-related
      - Capacity (mental/lack of consent)
      - Fraud
      - Prior Marriage still in force
        
        Putative spouse: good faith belief in validity of marriage & still acquires rights of legal spouse (some states courts use equitable remedies)