Sentences with phrase «crime against your spouse»

If you are accused of a crime against your spouse or partner, contact your lawyer and ask if this could be an option for you

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The crime of adultery is not only a grave sin against chastity but equally a grave violation of justice towards the other spouse and towards the children there may be.

For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.

-- This crime involves any act or threat of violence against any person with whom the accused has or had an intimate relationship such as current or former spouses, parents, children, romantic partners, or anyone residing in the same household.

Where one spouse had an affair, committed a crime, abused the other spouse, or was otherwise at fault, the bad behavior will count against that spouse in the court's evaluation of how the property should be fairly divided.

Being unworthy to succeed is relatively rare and would arise, for example, where the surviving spouse / civil partner murdered the deceased or committed certain other serious crimes against the deceased.