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INTERSPOUSAL MAINTENANCE [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • Family Law (common law)
PHR

The law should have two primary objects. First, it should adopt a philosophy of interspousal maintenance that does not tend to compel a sexually‑determined mode in which marriage functions are divided ...

OBS

"interspousal" means "between spouses".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
PHR

Le droit doit avoir deux objectifs principaux. Tout d'abord, il devrait adopter une philosophie du soutien entre époux qui ne doit pas tendre à imposer une certaine répartition des rôles dans le mariage en fonction du sexe [...]

Spanish

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