Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Marital
adj. Of or relating to the marriage relationship <marital property>.
antimarital-facts privilege
See marital privilege (2).
marital agreement
Any agreement between spouses concerning the division and ownership of marital property; esp., a premarital contract or separation agreement that is primarily concerned with dividing marital property in the event of divorce. - Also termed marriage settlement; property settlement. See PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT; POSTNUPTIAL AGREEMENT.
marital deduction
A federal tax deduction allowed for lifetime and testamentary transfers from one spouse to another. IRC (26 USCA) ยงยง 2056, 2523.
marital dissolution
See DIVORCE.
marital immunity
See husband-wife immunity.
marital portion
Civil law. The portion of a deceased spouse's estate to which the surviving spouse is entitled.
marital privilege
1 The privilege allowing a spouse not to testify, and to prevent another from testifying, about confidential communications with the other spouse during the marriage. - Also termed marital-communications privilege. 2. The privilege allowing a spouse not to testify in a criminal case as an adverse witness against the other spouse, regardless of the subject matter of the testimony. - Also termed (in sense 2) privilege against adverse spousal testimony; antimarital-facts privilege. 3. The privilege immunizing from a defamation lawsuit any statement made between husband and wife. - Also termed (in all senses) spousal privilege; husband-wife privilege.
marital property
Property that is acquired from the time when a marriage begins until one spouse files for divorce (assuming that a divorce decree actually results). ( In equitable-distribution states, the phrase marital property is the rough equivalent of community
marital rape
See RAPE.
marital rights
Rights and incidents (such as property or cohabitation rights) arising from the marriage contract.
marital-communications privilege
See marital privilege (1) under PRIVILEGE (3). marital deduction See DEDUCTION,
marital-deduction trust
A testamentary trust created to take full advantage of the marital deduction; esp., a trust entitling a spouse to lifetime income from the trust and sufficient control over the trust to include the trust property in the spouse's estate at death. Massachusetts trust See business trust.
nonmarital child
See illegitimate child under CHILD.
premarital agreement
See PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT.