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  2. Filial responsibility laws - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Filial responsibility laws ( filial support laws, filial piety laws) are laws in the United States that impose a duty, usually upon adult children, for the support of their impoverished parents or other relatives. [ 1] In some cases the duty is extended to other relatives. Such laws may be enforced by governmental or private entities and ...

  3. Law of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of Pennsylvania is the foremost source of state law. [citation needed] Legislation is enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, published in the Laws of Pennsylvania, and codified in the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. State agency regulations (sometimes called administrative law) are published in the Pennsylvania ...

  4. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    The rule against perpetuities is a legal rule in common law that prevents people from using legal instruments (usually a deed or a will) to exert control over the ownership of private property for a time long beyond the lives of people living at the time the instrument was written. Specifically, the rule forbids a person from creating future ...

  5. Child custody laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Family law. Child custody, conservatorship and guardianship describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and the parent's child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child. Custody issues typically arise in proceedings involving divorce, as well as in paternity ...

  6. Same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    [40] [41] The president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute decried the court ruling, "What Judge Jones has done is extralegal, going beyond what the law or the constitution requires and the fact that he is allowing, or apparently allowing, same-sex marriage licenses to be distributed immediately undermines the Democratic process." The ACLU ...

  7. Legality of incest - Wikipedia

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    A person and the child of one of his full, consanguineous or uterine brothers or sisters or with a descendant thereof. The mother or the father and the husband or the wife, the widower or the widow of his child or of another of his descendants. Stepmother or stepfather and the descendant of the other spouse.

  8. Joint and family-related rights: Joint filing of bankruptcy permitted; Joint parenting rights, such as access to children's school records; Family visitation rights for the spouse and non-biological children, such as to visit a spouse in a hospital or prison; Next-of-kin status for emergency medical decisions or filing wrongful death claims

  9. Legality of incest in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Northern Mariana Islands. A person who is related either legitimately or illegitimately, as. (1) an ancestor or descendant of the whole or half blood; (2) a brother or sister of the whole or half blood; or. (3) an uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece by blood. A person 18 years of age or older engages in sexual penetration.

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