Maintenance Effect On Divorce - Law Dictionary Search Results
Maintenance-effect on divorce
Matched in: Term Maintenance-effect on divorce
Divorcer
The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce
alimony
payee's remarriage) tem·po·rary alimony : alimony pendente lite in this entry 2 : means of living, support, or maintenance [fathers and mothers owe to their illegitimate children "Louisiana Civil Code"] … : an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce compare child support alimony in gross : lump sum alimony in this entry alimony pen·den·te li·te [-pen-den-tē-lī-tē, -pen-den-tā-lē-tā]
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legal separation
of spouses which does not involve a dissolution of the marriage but in which certain arrangements (as for maintenance and custody) are ordered by the court called also divorce a mensa et thoro judicial separation separation from
annul
compare divorce 2 a : to make legally void b : to declare to no longer have legal effect
Alimony
support, either during a matrimonial suit or at its termination, when she proves herself entitled to a separate maintenance, and the fact of a marriage is established. But she is not entitled to it if she elope … being made if she has to support a child of the marriage. See Browne and Latey, or Dixon on Divorce; and as to allowance of a reasonable weekly sum, not exceeding 2l., by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction
Judicial separation
of cruelty, or desertion without reason-able excuse for two years or upwards, and such decree shall have the effect of a divorce a mensa et toro under the existing law, and such other legal effect as hereinafter … and relief can also be obtained by a husband where the wife is an habitual drunkard (ibid.). Under Maintenance Acts the husband can be ordered to make weekly payments to his wife, which can be enforced by
spousal support or maintenance
Matched in: Term spousal support or maintenance
A mensa et thoro
by the husband or wife, it became improper or impossible for them to live together. This divorce was effected by sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court. It caused the separation of the husband and wife, but did not
libellant
admiralty) by a libel ;esp : the petitioner or plaintiff in a divorce proceeding [the agreed to pay alimony] 2 : libeler
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