Sentence examples for duty of support from inspiring English sources

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duty of support

noun

A legal obligation to provide maintenance for another person, such as one's child, spouse or former spouse.

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Homelessness law in England dating back to 2002 effectively reserves a full duty of support only for those deemed to be in priority need, which in practice means families with young children and pregnant women.

The stay-at-home partner may expect some financial support for himself or herself only to discover at the end of a long relationship that under the state's common law, there is no duty of support to an unmarried cohabitant.

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In Mayer's words: "Slumpies are a post-posture sculptural solution that leans towards an idea of function, relieving the human form of the duty of supporting it's own neck while acknowledging our ever-increasing relationship with mankind's best invention".

In addition to the familiar reasons for fulfilling its duties of support, honesty, reciprocity etc., it is plausible to suppose that doing so also expresses and is known to express loyalty to one's friends, and that that gives additional support to the duties.

Recommended actions and practice changes included working with colleagues to produce a system to deal with incoming correspondence and laboratory results, making time in the day to regularly deal with telephone calls, arranging for clinical cross-coverage with colleagues, and increasing the number and duties of support staff.

Under certain circumstances, high social participation can contribute to higher psychological distress for women because of "role strain" associated with the duty of providing support to others [ 4].

Medical ethics and duty of care support centralised antidoping authorities following up athletes where cancer is diagnosed by routine tests, allowing outcomes to be audited and lessons learnt.

Many factors contribute to the gap between value and attainment, the AP reports -- money, familial duties, lack of support.

She's talking to me now, she says, in part because she feels something of a duty to support the publication of The Pale King, and in part because she has a sense that talking about her experience might be of help to other people who have been left behind to live with the knock-kneed fact of suicide.

We want to hear about ways in which you have gone above and beyond the call of duty to support your team.

Lawyers for the group filed a federal lawsuit in Durham accusing Duke University and the City of Durham along with several school and police officials of fraud, abuse, and breach of duty for supporting the prosecution of the case.

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