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Glossary of Family
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Default Judgement: A judgment rendered when the
other side failed to appear in court.
Defendant: The person against whom a claim is
brought.
Deposition: A pretrial discovery device in which
one party verbally answers questions from the other party.
Desertion: One spouse voluntarily leaves the other
(without justification or consent from their spouse) for an
uninterrupted period of time and with no intentions of
returning.
Discovery: Steps that a party takes before trial
to obtain information from the other side in order to
prepare for trial.
Dissolution: The legal end of a marriage.
Domicile: The place where a person has been
physically present with the intent to make that place a
permanent home. A "residence," on the other hand,
is the place where you are living at a particular time. A
person can have more than one residence, but only one
domicile.
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