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Direct payment






Direct payment

Child or spousal support paid directly to the parent who has custody by the parent who does not have custody.

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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.

Custody
The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority.



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Direct
Straight forward; not collateral.

Direct action
The right of a third party who has a claim in responsibility against an insured to proceed directly by suit against the insurer, usually because the insured has been declared bankrupt or has become insolvent. In most jurisdictions, direct action is permitted only by statute.

Direct capitalization
The capitalization method used to convert an estimate of a single year's income expectancy or any annual average of several years' income expectancies into an indication of value in one step, either by dividing the income estimated by an appropriate rate or by multiplying the income estimate by an appropriate factor.

Direct evidence
That which applies immediately to the fadum probandum, without any intervening process.

Direct examination
The initial questioning of a witness called to the stand by an attorney.

Direct inward system access
A feature on PBX (Private Branch Exchange) telephone equipment that is vulnerable to fraud. It is used to allow people outside of the office to call anywhere in the world through the DISA port using a toll-free number and a PIN (Personal Identification Number). Hackers attack the PBX through the toll-free number and try to break in by guessing the PIN. If successful, the hackers can use the telephone network of the victim to place calls billed back to the victim.

Directed verdict
In a case in which the plaintiff has failed to present on the facts of his case proper evidence for jury consideration, the trial judge may order the entry of a verdict without allowing the jury to consider it.

Direction
1) The order and government of an institution; the persons who compose the board of directors are jointly called the direction. 2) Practice. That part of a bill in chancery which contains the address of the bill to the court.

Directors
Persons who are appointed to the board of directors under procedures contained in the Articles of Association are the directors of the company. Shadow directors may also be treated as directors in some circumstances. Executives whose job title describe them as a director but are not members of the board are not treated as directors, although they may have ostensible authority to bind the company as if they were.

Directors register
The Directors Register is one of the statutory registers that the company is required to maintain showing details of the directors and secretary. Name, address, occupation, nationality, date of birth and other directorships are recorded.

Directory
That which points out a thing or course of proceeding.

Directory advertising schemes
Fraudulent invoices claiming that the company is listed in a business directory and requesting payment. There may or may not be such a directory, and the directory may or may not ever be distributed or distributed as widely as claimed. For certain, no one ever ordered or authorized the directory advertisement.



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Direct action
The right of a third party who has a claim in responsibility against an insured to proceed directly by suit against the insurer, usually because the insured has been declared bankrupt or has become insolvent. In most jurisdictions, direct action is permitted only by statute.

Direct capitalization
The capitalization method used to convert an estimate of a single year's income expectancy or any annual average of several years' income expectancies into an indication of value in one step, either by dividing the income estimated by an appropriate rate or by multiplying the income estimate by an appropriate factor.

Direct evidence
That which applies immediately to the fadum probandum, without any intervening process.

Direct examination
The initial questioning of a witness called to the stand by an attorney.

Direct inward system access
A feature on PBX (Private Branch Exchange) telephone equipment that is vulnerable to fraud. It is used to allow people outside of the office to call anywhere in the world through the DISA port using a toll-free number and a PIN (Personal Identification Number). Hackers attack the PBX through the toll-free number and try to break in by guessing the PIN. If successful, the hackers can use the telephone network of the victim to place calls billed back to the victim.

Direct payment

Directed verdict
In a case in which the plaintiff has failed to present on the facts of his case proper evidence for jury consideration, the trial judge may order the entry of a verdict without allowing the jury to consider it.

Direction
1) The order and government of an institution; the persons who compose the board of directors are jointly called the direction. 2) Practice. That part of a bill in chancery which contains the address of the bill to the court.

Directors
Persons who are appointed to the board of directors under procedures contained in the Articles of Association are the directors of the company. Shadow directors may also be treated as directors in some circumstances. Executives whose job title describe them as a director but are not members of the board are not treated as directors, although they may have ostensible authority to bind the company as if they were.

Directors register
The Directors Register is one of the statutory registers that the company is required to maintain showing details of the directors and secretary. Name, address, occupation, nationality, date of birth and other directorships are recorded.

Directory
That which points out a thing or course of proceeding.

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