Legal fiction. Acceptance of a fact, which may or may not be true, by a judge to decide a legal question. Evidence: Any evidence lawfully presented to the court through witnesses, records and/or evidence. Driver`s licence suspension: A measure taken to prevent a person from renewing their driver`s licence until a legal issue is resolved. Assignment of wages: A court case in which the employer of a court debtor must withhold part of the court debtor`s salary in order to comply with a judgment. Also used to ask an employer to transfer (or allocate) portions of future wage payments to pay off a debt, such as child support. Click here for links to information on different types of salary assignments or attachments in civil matters. Family Court Legal Services: The Office of Children`s Services Administration that provides legal services for matters raised by the Commissioner of Social Services. Custody: The rights and obligations between parents for their child(ren).
A parenting plan must describe legal and physical custody, which are in the best interests of the children. This term is also often used to describe who children live with. Attack. A deliberate attempt or threat to harm another person, combined with the current ability to inflict an injury on that person that concerns them. Although the term “attack” is often used to describe the use of illegal force, the correct legal term for the use of illegal force is “battery”. Process: Conduct of a legal dispute proceeding. “Trial” can also mean a legal document requiring a defendant to respond to a complaint or accept a judgment in absentia. Alleged parent: The person who is said to be the parent of a child but who has not yet been medically or legally declared a legal parent. (See also genetic testing, legal parents, ancestry.) Adolescents: A person younger than the legal age of adulthood, which is usually 18, but in some cases is 21. (See also minor subject.) Active status: A case that is before a court but is not “settled” or “decided” has active status. (See Disposition, pending.) Marshal: 1.
Peace officer who has the power to arrest, serve subpoenas and legal documents, and act as a bailiff in a courtroom. 2. A person admitted by a city to enforce the judgment of a court. See Sheriff or Constable. Dunaway Hearing: A hearing to ask the court to remove evidence. It is based on the idea that the police obtained this evidence during an illegal arrest. This hearing takes place at the same time as a hearing of Mapp, Huntley or Wade. Limited Representation: An agreement with a lawyer to get help with certain parts of a case for a fixed fee or limited fee. Also known as “unbundled legal services” or “unbundling”.
Causality. The act by which an effect is created. See also “legal cause” and “immediate cause”. Legal separation: You and your spouse or partner can end your relationship while remaining legally married or in a relationship and receive court orders on parental and financial matters with a judgment on legal separation. Prosecution: 1. Start and pursue a court case. 2. Initiate and prosecute criminal proceedings against a person. Assault: Unlawful beatings, physical violence or control of a person without their permission. (Compare to the attack.) liber: A book used to record certain documents or events with legal effect. Non-insolvency proceedings in which an applicant or creditor attempts to make a debtor`s future salary dependent on its claim. In other words, the creditor seeks to have part of the debtor`s future salary paid to the creditor for a debt owed to the creditor.
Attachment: A legal procedure that allows you to withhold part of a person`s salary and/or assets for the payment of a debt. Garnishments on wages or income are usually involuntary. (See also Direct deduction from income, deduction from income, deduction from wages.) Genetic testing: A medical test to determine legal ancestry. (See also blood test.) Judge: A person with the power to decide legal issues before the courts. Check in. The official collection of all documents submitted to a court in a court case. Arrest Warrant: A written order issued and signed by a judge or bailiff directing a peace officer to take certain measures. May be: (1) an arrest warrant – orders a peace officer to arrest and bring to justice the person charged with a crime for the purpose of taking legal action; (2) an arrest warrant – a judge`s order to arrest a person and bring him or her to justice because the person did not appear in court when he or she should have done so; (3) a recall order – an order to remove information about revoked arrest warrants from the computers of the Department of Justice and the State Police in order to prevent false arrests; or (4) a search warrant – an order based on the establishment of a probable reason and directing law enforcement officers to search certain premises for specific persons or things and bring them to justice. Incorrect parking: Violation of national or local parking regulations.
Obligation: A promise made in the course of legal proceedings by a party or his or her lawyer, usually as a condition of obtaining a concession from the court or the other party. Service of the dispute: The delivery of legal documents to the other party. The papers must be handed over by an adult aged 18 or over who is not involved in the case and who swears by the date and method of delivery to the recipient. (See also Personal Service, Alternative Service.) Expiration: When a person has to give up money or property because they have not complied with a legal obligation. (See also confiscation of deposits.) nunc pro tunc: If a court order is issued on the 1st day but is retroactive (from an earlier date); from Latin for “now for then”. Bankruptcy judges on regular active duty in each district; a unit of the District Court. Implied title: Cases where ownership of real estate is disputed and the court must decide who owns (or is entitled to) the property. “Implied title” means declaring that a particular person is the legal owner of the disputed property. Guard. A person who is legally responsible for the care and management of the person or property of an incompetent person or minor.
Garnishment on wages: 1. The legal steps to get the employer of a court debtor to withhold part of his salary in order to satisfy a judgment.