By Deborah Benton

Leading edge and fascinating, this textbook is written for the scholar who's simply beginning a paralegal measure software. It presents basic and concise motives of criminal techniques and issues, encouraging scholars to advance severe considering talents through utilizing the felony rules to varied difficulties and workouts contained in every one bankruptcy. This publication introduces scholars to the most important substantial components of legislations that would be lined intensive in next classes.

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Like common law, statutes serve the purpose of defining limits and governing the acts of people in a society. The United States Constitution is the third primary source of law and is sometimes referred to as the supreme law of the land because its provisions take priority over any other law or statute. This is expressly noted in Article VI of the Constitution. S. Constitution, but enumerating provisions that will not conflict with it. Essentially, there are three sources for state law: the state’s constitution, statutes, and common law, otherwise referred to as case law in that state’s jurisdiction.

Reprinted with permission from Westlaw. While it is important for the legislature to represent the population as a whole, so that justice is served in balancing the rights and duties of the people, it is equally imperative that fairness prevails when such laws are applied and administered. The power to interpret and apply the law rests with the judicial branch, established under Article III of the Constitution. S. S. Constitution; if not, then the law is invalid. Again, the federal courts operate alongside state courts, and therefore, the decision as to which court has the authority to decide a case is largely governed by the powers reserved to the federal government by the Constitution.

Sexual infidelity should not be so narrowly proscribed. It is much more likely that our legislature intended the innocent spouse to establish adultery through circumstantial evidence showing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the guilty spouse had engaged in intimate sexual activity outside of the marriage, regardless of the specific sexual acts involved or the gender of the guilty spouse’s lover. Under our fault-based divorce law, a relationship is adulterous because it occurs outside of marriage and involves intimate sexual activity, not because it involves only one particular sexual act.

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