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The Arizona Republic
Nov. 21, 2005 08:30 AM

Maricopa County sheriff's deputies and posse members arrested more than 85 men and women over the weekend during Operation Deadbeat/Domestic Violence.

The effort targeted about 350 parents owing child-support and 400 others with warrants for domestic violence. Sheriff Joe Arpaio said both issues were connected, with spousal abuse at "the front end of a dysfunctional home and failure to pay child support (at) the back end."

Those arrested represented at least $175,000 owed in child-support payments, according to Deputy Doug Matteson. It was the sheriff's latest effort to track down deadbeat parents.

Deputies and posse members annually execute similar operations on Mother's Day, Father's Day and Valentine's Day.

Arpaio said he will persist as long as the problem continues.

"It's not strictly about child support or costing taxpayers money," he said. "I'm more interested in the problem of when you don't supervise your children properly, they get into drugs, violence. It's the bigger picture."

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The California Appellate Court in Schmir v. Schmir (11/16/05 - No. B175397), found that the trial court order terminating plaintiff's monthly spousal support from her ex-husband was in err and reversed and modified, where the evidence supported terminating the support when the trial court abused its discretion in doing it so abruptly as to deny plaintiff reasonable notice and an opportunity to find a job.

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According to Australian magazine NW: "Britney's already seen the
divorce lawyer. As it stands, the divorce papers are written up
and all she has to do is give the word and they'll be filed in the
courthouse. She doesn't want to divorce Kevin, but if that's
the best thing for her child and for her own sanity, that's exactly
what she'll do."

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A divorce obtained in a different state or country from the place where one spouse resides at the time of the divorce. As a general rule, foreign divorces are recognized as valid if the spouse requesting the divorce became a resident of the state or country granting the divorce, and if both parties consented to the jurisdiction of the foreign court. A foreign divorce obtained by one person without the consent of the other is normally not valid, unless the nonconsenting spouse later acts as if the foreign divorce were valid, for example, by remarrying.

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A method for defining the ownership of property acquired during marriage, in which all earnings during marriage and all property acquired with those earnings are considered community property and all debts incurred during marriage are community property debts. Community property laws exist in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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In community property states, property owned and controlled entirely by one spouse in a marriage. At divorce, separate property is not divided under the state's property division laws, but is kept by the spouse who owns it. Separate property includes all property that a spouse obtained before marriage, through inheritance or as a gift. It also includes any property that is traceable to separate property -- for example, cash from the sale of a vintage car owned by one spouse before marriage-and any property that the spouses agree is separate property.

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A document that provides proof of a marriage, typically issued to the newlyweds a few weeks after they file for the certificate in a county office. Most states require both spouses, the person who officiated the marriage and one or two witnesses to sign the marriage certificate; often this is done just after the ceremony.

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