§ 5 Incestuous and void marriages
§ 6 Void marriages
§ 7 Voidable marriages
§ 8 Marriage after divorce

Terms Used In New York Laws > Domestic Relations > Article 2 - Marriages

  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Designated felony act: means an act which, if done by an adult, would be a crime:
    (i) defined in sections 125. See N.Y. Family Court Law 301.2
  • Detention: means the temporary care and maintenance of children away from their own homes, as defined in section five hundred two of the executive law. See N.Y. Family Court Law 301.2
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Juvenile delinquent: means :
    (a)
    (i) a person at least twelve and less than eighteen years of age, having committed an act that would constitute a crime if committed by an adult; or
    (ii) a person over sixteen and less than seventeen years of age or, a person over sixteen and less than eighteen years of age commencing October first, two thousand nineteen, having committed an act that would constitute a violation as defined by subdivision three of section 10. See N.Y. Family Court Law 301.2
  • Presentment agency: means the agency or authority which pursuant to section two hundred fifty-four or two hundred fifty-four-a is responsible for presenting a juvenile delinquency petition. See N.Y. Family Court Law 301.2
  • Respondent: means the person against whom a juvenile delinquency petition is filed pursuant to section 310. See N.Y. Family Court Law 301.2