Glossary
Glossary of Legal Terms
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Aa
- Acceptance
- Access
- Accommodation
- Act jointly
- Ademption
- Administration bond
- Administrator
- Adultery
- Affidavit
- Affidavit for Divorce (Form 36)
- Affidavit of execution
- Age of majority
- Alimony
- Alternate executor
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- Annual income
- Answer (Form 10)
- Anti-lapse legislation
- Applicant
- Application for Divorce (Form 8A)
- Arbitration
- Assets
- Attorney
Cc
- Capacity
- Capital asset
- Captail gain
- Certificate of divorce
- Child of marriage
- Child support
- Child support guidelines
- Children’s Law Reform Act (CLRA)
- Clause
- Codicil
- Cohabitation
- Cohabitation agreement
- Collaborative law
- Commissioner of oaths
- Common law
- Common law notice period
- Common-law partners
- Condition precedent
- Confidential information
- Confidentiality clause
- Conflict of interest
- Consanguinity
- Consensus ad idem
- Consideration
- Constructive dismissal
- Constructive trust
- Contested divorce
- Contingent beneficiary
- Continuing Power of Attorney for Property (CPOA)
- Contract law
- Cruelty
- Custody
Dd
Ee
- Employee
- Employee handbook
- Employer
- Employment contract
- Employment Standards Act
- Encumbrance
- Equal parenting time
- Equalization of net family properties
- Equalization payment
- Escheat
- Estate
- Estate administration
- Estate executor
- Estate planning
- Estate trustee
- Eulogy
- Exclusive possession
- Executor
- Exhibit
- Extraordinary expenses
Ff
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Jj
Ll
Mm
Nn
Pp
- Parent
- Parental alienation
- Parenting plan
- Parenting time
- Pay equity
- Pay in lieu of notice
- Payor
- Per capita
- Per stirpes
- Personal care decisions
- Personal property
- Plaintiff
- Power of attorney (POA)
- Power of attorney for personal care (POAPC)
- Power of attorney for property (POAP)
- Precatory memorandum
- Preferential share
- Presumption of resulting trust
- Primary parenting decision-making responsibility
- Primary parenting time
- Primary will
- Principal residence
- Probate
- Probate fees
- Probationary period
- Process server
- Property
- Provision
Rr
Ss
- Secondary will
- Section 7 expenses
- Segregated funds
- Separation
- Separation agreement
- Separation date
- Severance pay
- Shared parenting time
- Simple divorce
- Sole custody
- Sole decision-making responsibility
- Sound of mind
- Special expenses
- Special service
- Specific bequests
- Split parenting time
- Spousal support
- Spouse
- Statutory declaration
- Style of cause
- Succession Law Reform Act
- Surety bond
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