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Task 1. Read the text carefully and answer the following questions using the information of the text


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1. What does Family Law deal with?

2. What is the difference between the legally registered and social rela­tions whereby people live together?

3. How old should both the man and the woman be to marry without parental consent?

4. What marriages are prohibited?

5. In what case is the marriage void from the very beginning?

6. What procedure must he or she comply with before marriage?

7. What are the main grounds for the annulment?

8. Explain the difference between a divorce and an annulment?

9. What can prolong the procedure of the divorce?

10. What evidences can convince the court that the marriage has broken down?

11. What does the judge focus on while deciding the custody of the children?

12. When is the child placed in a public institution or a foster home?

13. How can the amount of child support be modified?

14. What are the two main principles in dividing marital assets?

15. What can be considered as community and separate property?

16. What does the amount of alimony depend on?

17. Is it only relatives who may inherit the property? In what case does the property pass to the state?

Task 2. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.

1. All over the world the law now promotes the rights of individuals within the family unit, and regulates family relations through legislation.

2. In most countries the legal differences between the married and the unmarried are decreasing.

3. Both the man and the woman must be at least from 18 till 100 years old to marry without parental consent.

4. If you remarry before divorcing your current spouse, you are guilty of bigamy.

5. An annulment is a legal declaration that a marriage never existed

6. Sometimes neither parent is fit to take care of the child.

7. Visitation rights are awarded by the parent who gets custody of the children.

8. Two factors determine the amount of child support: the desire of the children and the parent's ability to pay.

9. In the United States the court doesn't look at the assets of the cou­ple, the length of the marriage, and the contributions each party made during the marriage, while dividing the property.

10. The judge can divide both the community and separate property.

11. There is a set formula for determining how much alimony, if any, must be paid in a particular case.

12. Many people make a will before their death containing their in­structions regarding what is to happen to their property when they die.

13. If there are no relatives at all the property passes to the neighbours.

Task 3. Without looking in the text again complete the following sen­tences.

1. Family law covers avast field..............................................

2. All countries have limitations on...........................................

3. Your spouse-to be must be..................................................

4. The major grounds for annulment are.....................................

5. If the person wants the court break down the marriage he or she must prove.................................................................................

6. Child custody is an issue only if............................................

7. To punish a parent for refusing to allow the other parent to visit the children, the court........................................................................

8. The obligation to support a child ends only when........................

9. In dividing the community property and awarding alimony the court can.................................................................................

10. While determining the amount of alimony the judge consider.........

11. In English law, the will need not to be....................................

12. In most countries there are laws of succession which .................


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