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Glossary

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Abandonment

When a parent leaves a child without enough care, supervision, support, or parental contact for an excessive period of time.

Annulment of Marriage

Also called a nullity, an annulment of marriage is a legal action that says your marriage was never legally valid because of unsound mind, incest, bigamy, being too young to consent, fraud, force, or physical incapacity. A judgment of nullity can have a significant impact on property division, spousal support and attorney’s fee awards.

Appeal

When someone that loses at least part of a case asks a higher court (called an “appellate court”) to review the decision and say if it was right. This is called “to appeal” or “to take an appeal.” The person that appeals is called the “appellant.” The other person is called the “appellee.”

Assignment of Support Rights

When a person that gets public assistance (money from the government) agrees to give the state any child support they get in the future. The person gets money and other benefits from the state. So the state can use part of the child support to pay for the cost of that public assistance.

ATROS (Automatic Temporary Restraining Orders)

These orders are set forth on the back of the Family Law Summons and prohibit properly served parties in a family law action from taking a variety of actions without prior court order, including removing a child from the State of California, transferring, disposing, concealing or encumbering real or personal property; cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance policy held for the benefit of a party or the parties’ minor child; and creating or modifying a nonprobate transfer.

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