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Christine D. Wallace

Adoption, Alimony & Spousal Support, Animal Bite, Criminal
Status:  In Good Standing           

Kelly L. Elswick-Hall

Administrative Law, Alimony & Spousal Support, Mesothelioma, Chemical & Cosmetics
Status:  In Good Standing           

Lyne Ranson

Family Law, Divorce, Divorce & Family Law, Child Support
Status:  In Good Standing           

Susan Delaine Hill

Family Law, Wills, Divorce, Farms
Status:  In Good Standing           

A. David Abrams

Estate, Divorce, Civil & Human Rights, Bankruptcy, Personal Injury
Status:  In Good Standing           

Adam Loren Campbell

Education, Employment, Divorce, Slip & Fall Accident, Personal Injury
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  14 Years

Allyson E. Hilliard

Divorce, Child Custody, Adoption, Divorce & Family Law
Status:  In Good Standing           

Ashton Leeann Bias

Custody & Visitation, Divorce & Family Law, Divorce
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  9 Years

Bradford W. Deel

Divorce
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  31 Years

Brendan M. Doneghy

Defect and Lemon Law, Oil & Gas, Estate, Divorce
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  13 Years

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LEGAL TERMS

FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (FMLA)

A federal law that requires employers to provide an employee with 12 weeks of unpaid leave during a year's time for the birth or adoption of a child, family hea... (more...)
A federal law that requires employers to provide an employee with 12 weeks of unpaid leave during a year's time for the birth or adoption of a child, family health needs or personal illness. The employer must allow the employee to return to the same position or a position similar to that held before taking the leave. There are exceptions to the FMLA: the most notable is that only employers with 50 or more employees are covered--about half the workforce.

CONNIVANCE

A situation set up so that another person commits a wrongdoing. For example, a husband who invites his wife's lover along on vacation may have connived her adul... (more...)
A situation set up so that another person commits a wrongdoing. For example, a husband who invites his wife's lover along on vacation may have connived her adultery, and if he tried to divorce her for her behavior, she could assert his connivance as a defense.

PATERNITY SUIT

A lawsuit to determine the identity of the father of a child born outside of marriage, and to provide for the support of the child once the identity of the fath... (more...)
A lawsuit to determine the identity of the father of a child born outside of marriage, and to provide for the support of the child once the identity of the father has been determined.

GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE

Legal reasons for requesting a divorce. All states require a spouse who files for divorce to state the grounds, court and whether requesting a fault divorce or ... (more...)
Legal reasons for requesting a divorce. All states require a spouse who files for divorce to state the grounds, court and whether requesting a fault divorce or a no-fault divorce.

HOME STUDY

An investigation of prospective adoptive parents to make sure they are fit to raise a child, required by all states. Common areas of inquiry include financial s... (more...)
An investigation of prospective adoptive parents to make sure they are fit to raise a child, required by all states. Common areas of inquiry include financial stability, marital stability, lifestyles and other social factors, physical and mental health and criminal history.

BRIEF

A document used to submit a legal contention or argument to a court. A brief typically sets out the facts of the case and a party's argument as to why she shoul... (more...)
A document used to submit a legal contention or argument to a court. A brief typically sets out the facts of the case and a party's argument as to why she should prevail. These arguments must be supported by legal authority and precedent, such as statutes, regulations and previous court decisions. Although it is usually possible to submit a brief to a trial court (called a trial brief), briefs are most commonly used as a central part of the appeal process (an appellate brief). But don't be fooled by the name -- briefs are usually anything but brief, as pointed out by writer Franz Kafka, who defined a lawyer as 'a person who writes a 10,000 word decision and calls it a brief.'

SOLE CUSTODY

An arrangement whereby only one parent has physical and legal custody of a child and the other parent has visitation rights.

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER (TRO)

An order that tells one person to stop harassing or harming another, issued after the aggrieved party appears before a judge. Once the TRO is issued, the court ... (more...)
An order that tells one person to stop harassing or harming another, issued after the aggrieved party appears before a judge. Once the TRO is issued, the court holds a second hearing where the other side can tell his story and the court can decide whether to make the TRO permanent by issuing an injunction. Although a TRO will often not stop an enraged spouse from acting violently, the police are more willing to intervene if the abused spouse has a TRO.

COMPARABLE RECTITUDE

A doctrine that grants the spouse least at fault a divorce when both spouses have shown grounds for divorce. It is a response to an old common-law rule that pre... (more...)
A doctrine that grants the spouse least at fault a divorce when both spouses have shown grounds for divorce. It is a response to an old common-law rule that prevented a divorce when both spouses were at fault.

SAMPLE LEGAL CASES

Young v. McIntyre

... On appeal, Appellants allege that the circuit court erred in holding that the plain language of the final order in the divorce of David Young, Appellants' father, from Pamela Sue Young did not constitute an agreement involving an 199 exchange of each party's rights and ...

Whiteside v. Whiteside

... the circuit court denied the appeal filed by the appellant and petitioner below, Connie Sue Whiteside, now known as Connie Sue Varney (hereinafter "Ms. Varney"), of a November 30, 2006, order of the Family Court of Kanawha County entered in this divorce action against the ...

Ware v. Ware

... WORKMAN, Justice: In this divorce action, Appellant and Cross-Appellee David Gary Ware appeals the April 9, 2008, judgment of the Circuit Court of Harrison County, West Virginia. ... On July 21, 2005, Mrs. Ware filed for divorce alleging cruelty and abandonment. ...