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  2. Next friend - Wikipedia

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    In common law, a next friend (Law French prochein ami) is a person who represents another person who is under age, or, because of disability or otherwise, is unable to maintain a suit on his or her own behalf and who does not have a legal guardian. They may also be known as a litigation friend, a guardian ad litem, or a litigation guardian.

  3. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    One legal definition of degrees of consanguinity. [1] The number next to each box in the table indicates the degree of relationship relative to the given person. Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor.

  4. Next of Kin - Wikipedia

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    Next of Kin, a Canadian film; Next of Kin, an action film; Next of Kin, a 1995 to 1997 British sitcom; Next of Kin, an American film starring Bess Armstrong "Next of Kin" , an episode of Arrow; Next of Kin (2018 TV series), a 2018 British thriller-drama series starring Archie Panjabi; Next of Kin, a 2021 supernatural horror film from the ...

  5. Death notification - Wikipedia

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    "The Next of Kin will be notified promptly in an appropriate dignified and understanding manner by a uniformed service representative. He/she will wear the Class "A" uniform and present a soldierly appearance when making notification." The process for death notification in the military is a three-phase process.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Jackson, Mississippi, adopts next-of-kin notification policy ...

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    Jackson’s new policy requires officers to make “every effort” to quickly locate and notify the next of kin of someone who has died in a case handled by the police department. It instructs ...

  8. Prohibited degree of kinship - Wikipedia

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    In law, a prohibited degree of kinship refers to a degree of consanguinity (blood relatedness), or sometimes affinity (relation by marriage or sexual relationship) between persons that makes sex or marriage between them illegal. An incest taboo between parent and child or two full-blooded siblings is a cultural universal.

  9. The Bureau of Prisons' Casual Cruelty to Families of Those ...

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    The person died the next day, and Price says the BOP took the position that since the individual was no longer in its custody at the time of death, the agency wasn't obligated to ship the body ...