payor
The payor is a person who pays child or spousal support.
primary residence
Primary residence is the place where your child lives most of the time.
witness
A witness is someone who gives information in court to help a judge decide a case. For example, a witness might be a friend or family member who can tell the judge what they know about things like your relationship with your child.
A witness usually gives this information by testifying in court. All parties in a case get the chance to ask a...
divorce order
A divorce order is an order from the court that legally ends a marriage.
applicant
The applicant is the party who starts the court case. An applicant can be one person or a group of two or more people, a corporation, or an agency like the Family Responsibility Office, etc.
The person that they are making a claim against is called the respondent.
respondent
The respondent is the party responding to the family law court case started against them. The party who starts the court case is called the applicant.
moving party
The moving party is the person asking the court to make an order after a motion.
responding party
The responding party is the person responding to a motion. The moving party is the person asking the court to make an order after a motion.
bail hearing
A bail hearing is when the person charged with a crime goes to court after they have been arrested. At court, they ask a judge or justice of the peace to decide whether the police can continue to keep them in jail, or whether they must let you go.The judge might give you "conditions" that you must follow if they let you go. For example, the court...
best interests of the child
The "best interests of the child" is a legal test used to decide many things about children. The test is different for different family law issues.
For example, when making decisions about decision-making responsibility and parenting time, which used to be called custody and access, some of the things the test considers are:
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