LEG 110 QUIZ 5
LEG 110 Quiz 5
This quiz consist of 10 multiple choice questions and covers the material
in Chapter 9.
1.
A payer of
alimony may petition the court for a reduced payment obligation, for example,
2.
An annulment is
different from a divorce in that it
3.
Which of the
following is the first step required to start the adoption process?
4.
Andrea Moorehead
was abandoned by her birth mother, a crack cocaine user who had tested positive
for venereal disease, shortly after birth. Andrea was placed with foster
parents when she was nine days old. The foster parents, Melva and Robert
Dearth, sought to adopt Andrea when she was 10 months old. The Dearths are
white and Andrea is black. They live in an interracial neighborhood, they
attend an interracial church, and their two children attend an interracial
school. They have a stable marriage and financial standing. Which of the
following factors may not be considered in determining whether the Dearth’s may
adopt Andrea?
5.
What factors are
necessary to establish a common law marriage?
6.
The right to
marry is constitutionally protected by which clause/clauses of the Fourteenth
Amendment?
7.
In which of the
following situations has the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may not
prohibit marriages?
8.
Under the common
law/equitable distribution approach, which of the following property is subject
to equitable distribution in the event of a divorce?
9. Independent adoptions
10.
The city of East
Cleveland had a municipal ordinance that regulated who could live together as a
family in a single-family dwelling unit. Inez Moore, an elderly grandmother,
was convicted of violating the ordinance because she had two grandsons who were
cousins living in the same house with her, and that living arrangement could
not be considered a single family under the definition of family in the
ordinance. She appealed her conviction on constitutional grounds. Which of the
following statements is true?
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