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Family Law Act 1996
Family Law Act 1996 (1996 c. 27), UK statute for England and Wales. Part IV supplies non-molestation orders, occupation orders and home rights against domestic violence; Part 4A adds forced marriage protection orders; Part II divorce provisions were never brought into force.
Family law in England and Wales
Family law in England and Wales governs divorce, children, and domestic-abuse remedies; since 6 April 2022 its sole divorce ground is irretrievable breakdown on a no-fault basis.
Family law in German-speaking and Benelux civil-code systems
Family law in German-speaking and Benelux civil-code systems covers marriage, divorce, parental responsibility, and matrimonial property under the BGB, ABGB, Swiss Civil Code, and Belgian and Dutch codes.
Family law in Latin America, Spain and Portugal
Family law in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal comprises civil-law systems descended from Iberian codes, marked by differing default marital-property regimes, no-fault divorce, and growing recognition of cohabitation.
Family law in Poland
Family law in Poland is governed principally by the Family and Guardianship Code (Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy) of 1964, which regulates marriage, divorce, parental authority, maintenance, and guardianship, and keeps a fault-based divorce system.
Family law in Singapore
Family law in Singapore, governed by the Women's Charter 1961 for non-Muslims and the Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966 for Muslims, covers marriage, divorce, maintenance, and children, administered by the Family Justice Courts and the Syariah Court under therapeutic justice principles and the Family Justice Rules 2024.
Family law in the Commonwealth: comparative overview
Family law in the Commonwealth: comparative overview is a comparative survey of family law across Commonwealth states, comparing Canada, Australia, Singapore, and the Caribbean on divorce, child support, and jurisdiction.
Family law of Northern Ireland
Family law of Northern Ireland is the body of statute and case law governing marriage, divorce, children, and adoption, centered on the 1978 and 1995 Orders.
Family law of Singapore
Family law of Singapore: dual system of civil family law under the Women's Charter 1961 and Muslim family law under the Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966, covering marriage, divorce, maintenance, and children.
Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd
Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd [2007] HCA 22, (2007) 230 CLR 89: unanimous High Court of Australia decision on fiduciary disclosure, Barnes v Addy liability, unjust enrichment, indefeasibility, and precedent comity among Australian intermediate appellate courts.
Farmland Reform Act
The Farmland Reform Act (농지개혁법) was a South Korean law of 1949, amended in 1950, under which the government bought tenanted land above a 3-hectare ceiling and resold it to cultivating tenant farmers.
Father
Father in law: legal fatherhood through the marital presumption (pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant), the history of paternity testing, parental responsibility, and modern intent-based parentage law.
Fault-based grounds for divorce
Fault-based grounds for divorce are legally specified acts of marital misconduct, such as adultery, cruelty, or desertion, that a spouse must plead and prove, unlike no-fault grounds.
Fee simple
Fee simple: the greatest property interest in land, of unlimited duration, held absolutely or in three defeasible forms (determinable, condition subsequent, executory limitation) with correlative future interests.
Fee tail
Fee tail: a common law entailed estate in land created by wording like 'to A and the heirs of his body', originating in the Statute De Donis Conditionalibus (1285). It locked inheritance to lineal descendants; barred by the common recovery and now abolished or converted to fee simple in most US states and England.
Fiduciary
A fiduciary is a person legally bound to act in another's best interests. Core duties of loyalty and care, no-profit and no-conflict rules, status- and fact-based identification, common law origins, and global variation.
Fief
Fief (Medieval Latin feudum, from Germanic fehu, cattle): a tenure of land, rights, or revenue held from a lord by a vassal after homage, in exchange for chiefly military service, central to European feudalism.
Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland
The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (1995) removed the constitutional ban on divorce, passed 24 November 1995 with 50.28% Yes, and was signed 17 June 1996, replaced in part by the 2019 Thirty-eighth Amendment.
Finance lease
Finance lease: also called full payout lease or, formerly in US GAAP, capital lease. A lease transferring substantially all ownership risks and rewards to the lessee; economically a loan secured on the asset, capitalized with amortization plus interest expense.
Financial relief on divorce in England and Wales
Financial relief on divorce in England and Wales is the set of court orders under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 dividing divorcing spouses' money, property, and pensions.
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Finnegan) is a Washington, DC-founded IP-only law firm (1965), one of the world's largest, filing about 2,500 US patent applications yearly and ranking among the most active firms at the PTAB.
First-sale doctrine
First-sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109 and also called copyright exhaustion, lets the owner of a lawfully made copy resell, lend, or give it away without permission; covers Bobbs-Merrill, Kirtsaeng, rental limits, and digital limits.
Fish & Richardson
Fish & Richardson P.C. is a Boston-founded (1878) intellectual property law firm specializing in patent litigation, prosecution, and PTAB post-grant work, with 12 U.S. offices plus Munich and Shenzhen; early clients included Bell, Edison, and the Wright Brothers.
Fixed-rate mortgage
Fixed-rate mortgage: home loan with an interest rate set at origination that never changes over the term; also called FRM. Dominant U.S. mortgage type (92% of household mortgages), priced off long-term Treasury yields with a term premium and prepayment option, favored by risk-averse borrowers.
Florida property law
Florida property law: the statutes and case law governing land conveyance, recording, marketable title, homestead, tenancy by the entirety, and property taxation, centered on Title XL (Chapters 689-719) of the Florida Statutes.
Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict
Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict are the four maritime-law categories of lost sea goods that statutorily define "wreck" under the UK Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and similar laws in Ireland, Singapore, Canada, and The Bahamas.
Food libel laws
Food libel laws, or veggie libel laws, are state agricultural disparagement statutes creating liability for false statements about food safety; enacted after the 1989 Alar scare in about thirteen states and tested in the Oprah Winfrey and pink slime cases.
Force majeure
Force majeure: contract clauses and civil law doctrines excusing performance for extraordinary events beyond a party's control. Contrasts with common law impossibility, impracticability, and frustration; codified in CISG Article 79 and UNIDROIT 7.1.7.
Forced heirship
Forced heirship (réserve héréditaire, legítima, Pflichtteil) is the civil law rule reserving a fixed share of an estate to children and spouse, overriding the will; rooted in Roman law, shaped by the Napoleonic Code, and contrasted with common law family provision.
Foreclosure
Foreclosure: legal process by which a lender satisfies an unpaid mortgage debt by selling the borrower's property. Judicial vs non-judicial routes, 120-day federal notice rule, loss mitigation options, and state-law effects distinguish it.