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domestic relations. For psychological and sociological aspects, see marriage marriage, socially sanctioned union that reproduces the family. In all societies the choice of partners is generally guided by rules of exogamy (the obligation to marry outside a group); some societies also have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a
..... Click the link for more information. . For legal aspects, see divorce divorce, partial or total dissolution of a marriage by the judgment of a court. Partial dissolution is a divorce "from bed and board," a decree of judicial separation, leaving the parties officially married while forbidding cohabitation.
..... Click the link for more information. ; husband and wife husband and wife, the legal aspects of the married state (for the sociological aspects, see marriage). The Marriage Contract

Marriage is a contractual relationship between a man and a woman that vests the parties with a new legal status.
..... Click the link for more information. ; parent and child parent and child, legal relationship, created by biological (birth) relationship or by adoption, that confers certain rights and duties on parent and child; in some states the courts have given the nonbiological, nonadoptive partner of a parent standing as a parent
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No references found			On the whole we get on pretty smoothly in our domestic relations, except in the lower strata of the Military Classes. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context Would you intrude on Master's domestic relations, in the first hour of his return? Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context			Domenchina, Juan José Domenichino Domenichino, Il Domenico Andrea Trezzini Domenico Cimarosa Domenico Fetti Domenico Fontana Domenico Ghirlandaio Domenico Morelli Domenico Scarlatti Domenico Veneziano Domerian Domerian Stage Domesday Book domestic Domestic Animals domestic cat domestic coke Domestic Goat domestic hot-water heater domestic induction heater Domestic Industries Domestic Premises and Arrangements of Industrial Enterprises domestic public-frequency bands Domestic Refrigerator domestic relations Domestic Rental Domestic Revival style domestic satellite domestic science domestic service domestic sewage domestic shorthair cat domestic system Domestic Trade domestic tragedy Domestic Tutor Domesticated Carp domestication Domestication, Animal Domesticity domeykite DOMF domical domical vault domicile Dominance Dominant dominant allele dominant carrier dominant energy condition			Domestic Passenger Ship Steering Group Domestic Payment Transfer Agency domestic pigeon domestic pigeon domestic pigeon domestic pigeons domestic pigeons domestic pigeons Domestic Policy Council domestic prelate domestic prelate Domestic Premises and Arrangements of Industrial Enterprises Domestic Preparedness Domestic Preparedness and Response Corps Domestic Preparedness Equipment Technical Assistance Program Domestic Preparedness Program Domestic Private Leased Circuit Domestic Problems Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act Domestic Production Activities Deduction Domestic Production Gross Receipts domestic public-frequency bands Domestic Publication of Foreign Filed Patent Applications Act of 1999 Domestic Purposes Benefit Domestic Readiness Group Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minima Domestic refrigerator Domestic refrigerator Domestic Refugee Policies Domestic Refugee Policies domestic relations domestic relations court Domestic Relations in the Nineteenth Century Domestic Relations in the Nineteenth Century Domestic Relations Law Domestic Relations Order Domestic Rental Domestic Response Casualty Decontamination Domestic Return Time Domestic Revenue, Pieces and Weight Domestic Revival style Domestic Safety Law Variations Domestic Satellite Domestic Satellite Domestic Satellite Organization Domestic Satellite Service Domestic savings Domestic savings Domestic savings domestic science domestic science domestic sciences domestic sciences Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force Domestic Security Section Domestic Security Task Force Domestic series Domestic service domestic sewage domestic sewage