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  2. Louise Raggio - Wikipedia

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    Louise Raggio (June 15, 1919 – January 23, 2011) was a Texas lawyer for more than fifty years. She was the first female prosecutor in Dallas County, Texas. [1] She spearheaded a coalition to establish the Marital Property Act of 1967 (which went into effect on January 1, 1968 [2]), and the Texas Family Code.

  3. Child custody laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    New Jersey courts require all divorcing parents with minor children to complete a mandatory Parents' Education Program before granting a divorce per the Parent's Education Act. The law, N.J.S.A 2A:34-12.3 [ 7 ] , enacted in 1999, was established to promote cooperation between the parties and to assist in resolving issues that arrive during the ...

  4. Law of Texas - Wikipedia

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    In 1925 the Texas Legislature reorganized the statutes into three major divisions: the Revised Civil Statutes, Penal Code, and Code of Criminal Procedure. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In 1963, the Texas legislature began a major revision of the 1925 Texas statutory classification scheme, and as of 1989 over half of the statutory law had been arranged under the ...

  5. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving standing

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    Held that state taxpayers do not have standing to challenge to state tax laws in federal court. 9–0 Massachusetts v. EPA: 2007: States have standing to sue the EPA to enforce their views of federal law, in this case, the view that carbon dioxide was an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Cited Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co. as precedent ...

  6. Child support in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Texas Family Code §§ 154.001 et seq. [94] Attorney General Child Support Services [95] Utah Code §§ 78B-12-202 et seq., [96] based on the Income Shares model [13] Office of Recovery Services [97] Vermont Stat. title 15, §§ 653-657 [98] Office of Child Support [99] Virginia Code §§ 20–108.1, 20–108.2

  7. Palimony in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Family Code does not provide for "palimony.” This means you cannot gain rights under the Texas Family Code because you lived with someone absent a valid marriage. You can, however, create an agreement "on consideration of nonmarital conjugal cohabitation" under the Texas Business and Commerce Code (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 26.01(b)(3)).

  8. Standing order - Wikipedia

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    Standing order or standing orders may refer to: Standing order (banking) (or banker's order ), instruction to a bank to pay a set amount at regular intervals from one account to another Permanent rules of order governing parliamentary procedure for an assembly; as opposed to sessional orders or orders of the day

  9. Common-law marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Family Code, Sections 2.401 through 2.405, [62] define how a common law marriage (which is known as both "marriage without formalities" and "informal marriage" in the text) can be established in one of two ways. Both parties must be at least age 18 to enter into a common law marriage.