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Non-custodial parent






Non-custodial parent

The parent who does not have physical custody of the child, and who typically is paying child support to the child.

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

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.



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Non-competition clause
Non-competition clause/ Non-Compete/ Exclusivity/ Predatory Soliciting Clause. A contractual promise to the employing company under which a contractor, usually an ex-employee, agrees not compete with the original client by contracting with business competitors. Also found in third party contracts with agencies or brokers. These clauses are enforced, although courts will look unfavorably on a clause that imposes an undue hardship on the employee, such as a broad prohibition that forecloses an employee from working in his/her particular trade, or that has an unnecessarily broad geographic scope or time frame.

Non-Contact Visit
In the US penitentiary jargon, a visit in which the inmate and the visitor are not permitted to be in physical contact and are generally separated by a physical barrier.

Non-executive director
A director who is not an employee of the company and who only dictates part of his available time to the company is known as a non-executive director. Usually a person with particular experience or skills who holds a seat on the board to exercise a steadying influence on board decisions. His legal obligations to the company and creditors of skill and honesty are the same as those of an executive director.

Non-joinder
When a person who should have been made a party to a legal proceedings has been forgotten or omitted. This is usually addressed by asking the court to amend documents and including the forgotten party to the proceedings. It is the opposite of mis-joinder.

Non-marital property
Property considered by the courts to belong to one spouse or another and that which is not available for equitable distribution.

Non-separation agreement
An agreement between a carrier and a cargo owner following a general average act which permits the cargo owner to have his goods discharged at the port of refuge and forwarded to destination by the carrier in another ship, thus terminating the common maritime adventure, in return for cargo contributing to future general average loss, according to values stated in the agreement, as if the common adventure were continued.

Non-vessel-operating common carrier
A common carrier that does not operate the vessel by which the ocean transportation is provided, and is a shipper (infra) in its relationship with an ocean common carrier.



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Non tenent insimul
Pleadings. A plea to an action in partition, by which the defendant denies that he holds the property, which is the subject of the suit, together with the complainant or plaintiff.

Non tenuit
He did not hold. The name of a plea in bar in replevin, when the plaintiff has avowed for rent arrear, by which the plaintiff avows that he did not hold in manner and form as the avowry alleges.

Non tenure
Pleading. A plea in a real action, by which the defendant asserted, that he did not hold the land, or at least some part of it, as mentioned in the plaintiff's declaration.

Non term
The vacation between two terms of a court.

Non-competition clause
Non-competition clause/ Non-Compete/ Exclusivity/ Predatory Soliciting Clause. A contractual promise to the employing company under which a contractor, usually an ex-employee, agrees not compete with the original client by contracting with business competitors. Also found in third party contracts with agencies or brokers. These clauses are enforced, although courts will look unfavorably on a clause that imposes an undue hardship on the employee, such as a broad prohibition that forecloses an employee from working in his/her particular trade, or that has an unnecessarily broad geographic scope or time frame.

Non-custodial parent

Non-executive director
A director who is not an employee of the company and who only dictates part of his available time to the company is known as a non-executive director. Usually a person with particular experience or skills who holds a seat on the board to exercise a steadying influence on board decisions. His legal obligations to the company and creditors of skill and honesty are the same as those of an executive director.

Nonfeasance
Not doing something that a person should be doing.

Nonimmigrant
An alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification sought.

Non-joinder
When a person who should have been made a party to a legal proceedings has been forgotten or omitted. This is usually addressed by asking the court to amend documents and including the forgotten party to the proceedings. It is the opposite of mis-joinder.

Nonjury trial
Trial before the court but without a jury.

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