Deck 8: Legal Interviewing

Question 1

The custodial parent has the primary duty to support a child.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Parents can enter agreements that give the duty of child support to only one of the parents.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

IV-D agencies help parents collect child support.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In rem jurisdiction is sufficient for a court to order a nonresident to pay child support.

Question 5

If the woman is married and her spouse consents to artificial insemination performed under the supervision of a licensed physician) using the sperm of a sperm donor:

A) the sperm donor must support the child if he specifically agreed to provide child support.
B) the sperm donor must support the child whether or not he specifically agreed to provide child support.
C) the husband must support the child if he specifically agreed to provide child support.
D) the husband must support the child whether or not he specifically agreed to provide child support.

Question 6

The amount of child support specified in the child-support guidelines is presumed to be correct.

Question 7

The person to whom an obligation is owed is the obligor.

Question 8

What services are offered by an IV-D agency?

Question 9

The Family Violence Indicator FVI) helps prevent the release of information on IV-D clients that could lead to the commission of violence by noncustodial parents.

Question 10

When does child support include a duty to pay for the child's college?

Question 11

When will imputed income be used in the calculation of the amount of child support that is owed?

Question 12

Unlike most areas of family law, federal law plays a major role in the law of child support.

Question 13

Long-arm jurisdiction requires sufficiently purposeful contacts in the state.

Question 14

What factors might cause a court to change the amount set by the guidelines?

Question 15

A court decree orders William to pay Lena $700 a month child support for their son.

A) William is the obligor.
B) Lena is the obligee.
C) Lena is the payee.
D) All of the above.

Question 16

A divisible divorce is entitled to full faith and credit by another state only in part.

Question 17

What is the three-pony rule?

Question 18

The duty of child support:

A) exists in most cases until the child reaches the age of majority.
B) exists in most cases until the child is emancipated.
C) can sometimes exist beyond the child's age of majority if the child is disabled.
D) all of the above.

Question 19

A stepparent who adopts a child:

A) has a duty to support the child but only if the stepparent marries the child's biological parent.
B) has a duty to support the child whether or not the stepparent marries the child's biological parent.
C) has a duty to support the child but only if the adoption occurred before the stepparent married the child's biological parent.
D) has a duty to support the child but only if the adoption occurred after the stepparent married the child's biological parent.

Question 20

What is the role of child-support guidelines?

Question 21

TANF stands for . It is the federal-state welfare system that replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children AFDC).

Question 22

A payment is a single payment of an amount of money to fulfill what would otherwise be a continuing obligation.

Question 23

Every state has guidelines, which are state-mandated rules for calculating the amount of child support owed by adults obligated to pay such support obligors).

Question 24

A parent is a person who, under the Uniform Parentage Act, is presumed to be the natural parent of a child if the person receives the child into his or her home and openly holds out the child as his or her natural child.

Question 25

The refusal of a party to comply with a court order usually issued for the benefit of another), which can lead to punishment including incarceration) until the party complies with the order is called contempt.

Question 26

Income that will be assumed to be available regardless of whether it is actually available is called income.

Question 27

What is new hire reporting?

Question 28

List the long-arm bases of obtaining personal jurisdiction against a nonresident under the UIFSA.

Question 29

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.
a. protective order
b. obligor
c. escrow
d. FVI
e. lien
f. minimum contacts
g. domicile
h. credit clouding
i. oblige
j. substituted service
29. an encumbrance
30. needed to assert long-arm jurisdiction
31. one to whom a legal duty is owed
32. physical presence and intent to return
33. notification of a creditor
34. stops someone from doing something
35. notice published in a newspaper
36. indication of a possible victim of domestic violence
37. delivery to a third person until a condition is met
38. one who owes a legal duty