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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 ContractMarriage 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 ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On the whole we get on pretty smoothly in our domestic relations, except in the lower strata of the Military Classes. Would you intrude on Master's domestic relations, in the first hour of his return? |
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