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Absent parent






Absent parent

The parent who does not have custodial rights to the child, but is responsible for the partial support of the child and is physically absent from the home where the child resides. this parent is usually referred to as the non-custodial parent.

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Child
Generally, an unmarried person under 21 years of age who is: a child born in wedlock; a stepchild, provided that the child was under 18 years of age at the time that the marriage creating the stepchild relationship occurred; a legitimated child, provided that the child was legitimated while in the legal custody of the legitimating parent; a child born out of wedlock, when a benefit is sought on the basis of its relationship with its mother, or to its father if the father has or had a bona fide relationship with the child; a child adopted while under 16 years of age who has resided since adoption in the legal custody of the adopting parents for at least 2 years; or an orphan, under 16 years of age, who has been adopted abroad by a U.S. citizen or has an immediate-relative visa petition submitted in his/her behalf and is coming to the United States for adoption by a U.S. citizen.

Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.

Home
Where a person takes up his abode, without any present intention to remove therefrom permanently.



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Civil law. Stealers of cattle, who were punished with more severity than other thieves.

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Diplomacy. Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent with a less extensive commission to a court where there are no nuncios.

Abnepos
Civil law. The grandson of a grandson or granddaughter, or fourth descendant.

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The fruit of an abortion; the child born before its time, incapable of life.

Abscond
To go in a clandestine manner out of the jurisdiction of the courts, or to lie concealed in order to avoid their process.

Absent parent

Absolute
Without any condition or encumbrance, as an "absolute bond,"simplex obligatio, in distinction from a conditional bond;

Absolute conveyance
A conveyance entirely executed; not conditional, as in the case of a mortgage.

Absolution
A definite sentence whereby a man accused of any crime is acquitted.

Absque hoc
Pleading. When the pleadings were in Latin these words were employed in a traverse.

Absque impetitione vasti
Without impeachment of waste. Without any right to prevent waste.

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