Sentence examples for Family provisions from inspiring English sources

As was the case for many Mexicans who were coerced into leaving, the government gave the Herrada family provisions of food for three days.

Scores of poor migrants from the dust bowl of Oklahoma, Texas, and the Deep South drove dilapidated Fords crushingly overloaded with family, provisions, and furniture along Route 66 toward what they hoped would be the "land of milk and honey" in California's farm belt.

Conservatives like Charles Murray often assert that public provision crowds out family provision, contributing to family breakdown.

Unmarried partners are currently entitled to nothing, but can apply through court for family provision.

Family provision acts of this kind have since been enacted in Australia, Canada, and England.

Her background is in activism, particularly in the domestic violence, women's and LGBT movements and in local community family provision.

He added that family provision rights already protect those who are dependent quite adequately: "The majority of my case work deals with cohabiting people who have split up.

Wills are regulated mainly by a statute of 1837 (amended in 1982), and the freedom to disinherit has been curtailed by a series of family provision acts, thereby assimilating the common law to those systems, like that in Scotland, that have always required provision to be made for the family.

Under the English Inheritance (Family Provision) Act of 1938, as amended in a series of enactments, the court, if it found the decedent had failed to make reasonable financial provision for the applicant, was empowered to order maintenance from the estate to the surviving spouse, an unmarried daughter, a minor son, any incapacitated child, or an unmarried former spouse of the decedent.

It is family provision of care for the family unit.

Obama may not be perfect, or perfect for women, as the family provision being axed from the stimulus package proves.