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Legal Glos­saries

Per­sonal Injury Glos­sary
Per­sonal Injury Glos­sary covers terms such as arbi­tra­tion, arraign­ment, malfea­sance, mis­de­meanor, neg­li­gence per se, nolo con­tendere, per­jury, plea bar­gain, statute of lim­i­ta­tion, waiver, willful neg­li­gence, defen­dant, default judg­ment, and other legal terms.

Med­ical Mal­prac­tice Glos­sary
If you have injured due to the neg­li­gence of a doctor, nurse or someone serving in a med­ical care capacity, these terms will be useful to you as you work through the claim process: adju­di­cate, answer, con­tin­gency fee, dam­ages, depo­si­tion, failure to diag­nose, hos­pital mal­prac­tice, lia­bility risk, occu­pa­tional therapy, ter­minal ill­ness, wrongful death, etc.

Workers’ Com­pen­sa­tion Glos­sary
If you have been injured on the job, these Work­place Injury terms will be useful as you work through the claim process: accepted claim, affi­davit, claim form, class action, expert wit­ness, judge­ment, neg­li­gence, per­ma­nent dis­ability, safety inspec­tion, voca­tional reha­bil­i­ta­tion, etc.

Bank­ruptcy Glos­sary
Glos­sary covers terms such as aban­don­ment, ade­quate pro­tec­tion, allowed claim, avoid­ance of lien, Bank­ruptcy Reform Act of 1994, bank­ruptcy rules, equity, exam­iner, exclu­sivity period, joint peti­tion, judi­cial lien, non-dischargeable debt, nonex­empt prop­erty, per­ma­nent injunc­tion, pref­er­en­tial lien, secured debt, unliq­ui­dated claim, etc.

Family Law Glos­sary
Family Law Glos­sary covers terms such absolute divorce, alien­ation of affec­tion, alimony, arbi­tra­tion, child sup­port, common law mar­riage, cus­to­dial parent, depo­si­tion, equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion, home state, joint cus­tody, mar­ital prop­erty, prop­erty divi­sion, sole cus­tody, super­vised vis­i­ta­tion, uncon­tested divorce, etc.

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