LEGL 280- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Validity of marriage: parties voluntarily consent to marriage, both parties of sound mind, neither party already married, parties are not related (brother, sister, mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter) Reasons for entering into them are: 2nd marriage, avoid expenses and trauma of litigation, wealthy and wish to protect assets, certainty or parents or business partners demand one. **in order to make any of these contracts valid, you must receive independent legal advice or it"s void: must also disclose all assets and liabilities. Act (air: family law act now only recognizes spouses (married) or air partners (same sex or opposite, in the air act, an adult interdependent partner is defined as: A breakdown of the marriage is established when: The parties have been separate or apart for 1 year. The other spouse has treated the other spouse with physical or mental cruelty. **we now only need to prove 1 year separate and apart: vast majority divorce on this basis.
