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A legal citation is a "reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as a case, statute, or treatise, that either substantiates or contradicts a given position." [1] Where cases are published on paper, the citation usually contains the following information: Court that issued the decision; Report title; Volume number; Page, section, or ...
A fault divorce is a divorce which is granted after the party asking for the divorce sufficiently proves that the other party did something wrong that justifies ending the marriage. [8] For example, in Texas, grounds for an "at-fault" divorce include cruelty, adultery, a felony conviction, abandonment, living apart, and commitment in a mental ...
Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 (1972), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the fathers of children born out of wedlock had a fundamental right to their children. Until the ruling, when the mother of a child born out of wedlock was unable to care for the child, through death or other circumstances, the ...
[citation needed] No two community property states have exactly the same laws on the subject, and the statutes or judicial decisions in one state may be completely opposite to those of another state on a particular legal issue. For example, in some community property states (so-called "American Rule" states), income from separate property is ...
Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer: Tales of How Cunning Clients Can Get Free Legal Work, As Told by an Experienced Divorce Attorney. Cheetah Press. ISBN 978-0997555523. Riessman, Catherine Kohler (1990). Divorce talk : women and men make sense of personal relationships. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813515021.
"When it comes to finding the right words to say to someone going through a divorce, often people stumble because they want to support their loved one, but culturally, divorce has been stigmatized ...
Civil cases appealed from the Illinois Appellate Court are heard by the Supreme Court of Illinois upon the grant of a Petition for Leave to Appeal under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 315, [9] a Certificate of Importance under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 316, [10] or a Petition for Appeal as a Matter of Right under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 317 ...
The official reporter for opinions of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Court are published on the website of the Illinois Supreme Court using a public domain case citation. [10] [11] [12] There are also unofficial sources such as West's Illinois Decisions (an Illinois-specific version of the North Eastern Reporter) with opinions since 1886. [1]