Sentence examples for upon a spouse from inspiring English sources

They include spousal inheritance rights and pension and Social Security benefits upon a spouse's death.

The bill would have made domestic violence the 13th legal justification for divorce, as long as it was "established by clear and convincing evidence, where the perpetrator commits upon a spouse one of the following: attempting to cause, or purposely or knowingly causing, bodily injury to the spouse; or attempting by physical menace to put the spouse in fear of imminent serious bodily harm".

If one nurtures the relationships with family and friends over a lifetime, abandonment by them is highly unlikely upon loss of a spouse.

Heterosexual married couples have long enjoyed the privilege of passing retirement assets and property to a spouse upon their death, tax free.

Young Chinese men who place more emphasis upon caring qualities in a spouse (b = .377), on the other hand, are shown to have a greater desire to date often.

For those without prenups or postnups agreements made after marriage that limit the rights of a spouse upon divorce or death of the other spouse choosing a state in which to file (“forum shopping”) can be the difference between a cheap escape and expensive combat.

A related question is if funds spent by a spouse upon an affair while married must be accounted for in a divorce property division.

The oversample of households with an adult death likely contributed to a higher percentage of female-headed households, since wives usually take over headship upon the death of a spouse in this community.

Speaking Friday at an economic conference in his home country of Finland, Mr. Rehn, the usually phlegmatic commissioner of economic and monetary affairs, sounded like a put-upon spouse in a messy breakup.

A. Felix Nihamin, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that under the Rent Stabilization Law, a husband or wife becomes entitled to succession rights to a spouse's apartment upon the commencement of the marriage.

Take time to verify that money will go to the proper individual(s) upon your death or the death of a spouse.