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A purchased policy that pays a fixed amount of benefits every year -- although most annuities actually pay monthly -- for the life of the person who is entitled to those benefits. In a simple life annuity, when the person receiving the annuity dies, the benefits stop; there is no final lump sum payment and no provision to pay benefits to a spouse or other survivor. A continuous annuity pays monthly installments for the life of the retired worker, and also provides a smaller continuing annuity for the worker's spouse or other survivor after the worker's death. A joint and survivor annuity pays monthly benefits as long as the retired worker is alive, and then continues to pay the worker's spouse for life.

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The act of freeing someone from restraint or bondage. For example, on January 1, 1863, slaves in the confederate states were declared free by an executive order of President Lincoln, known as the "Emancipation Proclamation." After the Civil War, this emancipation was extended to the entire country and made law by the ratification of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution. Nowadays, emancipation refers to the point at which a child is free from parental control. It occurs when the child's parents no longer perform their parental duties and surrender their rights to the care, custody and earnings of their minor child. Emancipation may be the result of a voluntary agreement between the parents and child, or it may be implied from their acts and ongoing conduct. For example, a child who leaves her parents' home and becomes entirely self-supporting without their objection is considered emancipated, while a child who goes to stay with a friend or relative and gets a part-time job is not. Emancipation may also occur when a minor child marries or enters the military.

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Jessica Simpson has filed for divorce from Nick Lachey, officially ending the couple's three-year marriage, Access Hollywood reported.

Jessica filed the papers in Los Angeles on Friday, citing "irreconcilable differences."

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A divorce automatically granted by a court when the spouse who is served with a summons and complaint for divorce fails to file a formal response with the court. Many divorces proceed this way when the spouses have worked everything out and there's no reason for both to go to court -- and pay the court costs.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The parents of teenage singer/actress Lindsay Lohan Monday announced they have settled their bitter, public divorce.

The settlement was announced the same day the divorce trial was scheduled to resume in New York, People magazine reported. Terms of the settlement were not released.

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Actress Valerie Bertinelli has officially filed for divorce from rock legend Eddie Van Halen. The papers filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court cite irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. Click here to see the filings.

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December 9, 2005 -- Actor Matt Damon, 35, married his girlfriend of two years, Luciana Barroso, 30, this morning at a private ceremony in New York's City Hall.

Barroso's 6-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, Alexia, was the only other person present at the ceremony, presided over by a justice of the peace.

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It was reported today that Jessica Simpson hired a high powered lawyers, Robert Kaufman and Lance Spiegel, to oversee her divorce from her husband of three years, Nick Lachey.

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"Tenancy in Common" is a way two or more people can own property together. Each can leave his or her interest upon death to beneficiaries of his choosing instead of to the other owners, as is required with joint tenancy. In some states, two people are presumed to own property as tenants in common unless they've agreed otherwise in writing.

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MEDIA, Pa. - A lawyer imprisoned for more than a decade for defying an order in his divorce case was in court Tuesday, but his standoff with judges continued.

H. Beatty Chadwick, 68, may be serving the longest length of time in U.S. history for contempt of court, attorneys say.

He was jailed in 1995 for allegedly hiding $2.5 million in overseas banks during a bitter divorce. Since then, he has been locked in a battle wills with a series of judges in Delaware County who say he can go free if only he would tell them what happened to the money.

Chadwick insists the money vanished years ago after he lost it in bad investments. But judges have deemed his explanations incredulous, and a three-judge panel grew visibly steamed Tuesday when they learned the court's latest investigation has turned up nothing new.

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LOS ANGELES - Christina Applegate and her husband, Johnathon Schaech, are calling it quits after four years of marriage.

The couple have filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court. Their publicists, Ame Van Iden and Chuck James, confirmed the split Monday. "The decision is mutual," they said in a joint statement without further comment.

Applegate, 34, played ditsy daughter Kelly Bundy on TV's "Married ... With Children" and earned a Tony nomination for her role in "Sweet Charity" on Broadway. Schaech, 36, starred in 1996's "That Thing You Do!"

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A special kind of property ownership that's only for married couples. Both spouses have the right to enjoy the entire property, and when one spouse dies, the surviving spouse gets title to the property (called a right of survivorship). It is similar to joint tenancy, but it is available in only about half the states.

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