Commingling refers broadly to the mixing of funds belonging to one party with funds belonging to another party. It most often describes a fiduciary’s improper mixing of their personal funds with funds belonging to a client. This form of...
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common property
Common property refers to property owned by more than one entity. Because of this shared ownership, an individual party’s degree of control over common property is less than it would be if they owned that property alone. Common property is...
community property
Community property refers to assets acquired during a marriage by either spouse. These assets can include property, income and even debt. Not all states recognize community property. In a “community property” state (such as California), any...
comparable rectitude
Comparable rectitude was a doctrine in divorce law where courts would evaluate the comparative fault of each spouse. Under the harsher doctrine of recrimination, a spouse who was accused of conduct constituting grounds for divorce could, as a...
condonation
Condonation is commonly a defense argument made by a person (complainant), who had previously either forgiven or ignored an act about which he/she is now legally complaining. The law governing condonation may vary state to state, but...
connivance
Connivance most commonly refers to a defense in divorce law in which a spouse accused of adultery, or another form of sexual misconduct, asserts that the other spouse consented to the adultery. The modern availability of no-fault divorce has...
consent divorce
A consent divorce refers to a divorce granted where both parties agree to the divorce, and both go to a particular jurisdiction to obtain the divorce. This type of divorce is not valid if neither spouse is domiciled in the jurisdiction where...
consummation
Consummation means the completion of a thing. Some common uses of the term “consummation” in a legal sense include:
In the context of marriage, consummation means the actualization of marriage. It is the first act of sexual intercourse...covenant marriage
A covenant marriage is an arrangement where marrying spouses agree that their marriage will last for the rest of their lives. However, it does provide for a divorce in a limited number of situations. Those limited situations include: 1) one...
cruelty
Cruelty is any act of inflicting unnecessary physical or mental pain on living creatures.
Some common uses of the term “cruelty” in a legal sense include:
In the context of a ground for fault-based divorce, cases...