...ing Prevention Act, 28 U.S.C. 1738A, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act articles 2 and 3, Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act, 28 U.S.C. 1738A, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Mother became pregnant while dating Father. Father attended prenatal appointments, paid half of Mother's medical bills, and told both families he intended to raise the child. Before the birth, Mother moved without tellin...
Citations: Lehr v. Robertson, 463 U.S. 248 (1983), Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 (1972), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...lidly placed the investments in trust before death. Noel also seeks a family allowance and exempt household property. Discuss Noel's likely property rights as surviving spouse and the children's arguments. This question...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Probate Code sections 2-202, 2-213
...rcement of divorce financial orders. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 316, 319
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 316, 319
...d's preference in custody decisions. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 402
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 402
An MPT opinion letter has explained the governing law and applied it to the client's facts. The task memo also asks what the client should do next. Which ending is best? The correct answer identifies the practical closin...
Citations: NCBE MPT preparation materials
...s core common-law marriage elements. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
A zoning ordinance permits single-family homes as of right and permits small day-care centers as conditional uses if the applicant satisfies stated parking, traffic, and noise standards. Applicant satisfies those standar...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
An opinion letter to a nonlawyer client must rely on a statute and two cases from the Library. How should the letter use those authorities? The correct answer states how to use legal authority in a client-facing MPT lett...
Citations: NCBE MPT preparation materials
...marriage after a defect is removed. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 208
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 208
A client asks whether the company is certain to defeat a threatened lawsuit. The File facts are mostly favorable, but the Library includes one case that supports the client and one case that creates a meaningful risk if...
Citations: NCBE MPT preparation materials
...e for factual impossibility. NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 5.01
Citations: NCBE NextGen UBE Content Scope, Criminal Law, Model Penal Code 5.01
...ts in common, each with a one-third interest. Beach House is a single-family vacation home on a small oceanfront lot. A lives there for three months each year. B rented the entire house to tourists for the summer without...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law real-property principles
City rezoned one small parcel in the center of a single-family district to allow a drive-through restaurant. The comprehensive plan designates the area for low-density residential use, and the planning staff found no pub...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
Developer bought a former church in a district zoned for single-family homes. The ordinance permits houses as of right, permits day-care centers as conditional uses if traffic, parking, and noise standards are satisfied...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
...aration stating that all lots in Pine Ridge "shall be used for single-family residential purposes only and no commercial business shall be conducted on any lot." Each original deed from Developer referred to the recorded...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law real-property principles
...ormation and interstate recognition. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws sections 283, 284
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws sections 283, 284
Two State A family members are in a car accident while briefly driving through State B. State B has an interfamily-immunity rule designed to protect State B family relationships and State B insurers. State A has abolishe...
Citations: Modern conflict-of-laws principles
State C enacted the Family Integrity Act. One section bars any person with more than $10,000 in unpaid civil debt judgments from obtaining a marriage license unless a judge finds that the person has made "substantial pro...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Loving v. Virginia, Zablocki v. Redhail, Troxel v. Granville, Washington v. Glucksberg
...nd) of Conflict of Laws section 283, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws section 283, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
A State C court entered a final custody decree giving Parent A primary physical custody and both parents joint legal custody of Child. Parent B had alternating weekends and weekly video calls. Two years later, Parent A m...
Citations: Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act sections 202, 203, 207, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Child lived in State A with both parents from birth until age seven. After Parent 1 alleged that Parent 2 had shoved Parent 1 while Child was nearby and had threatened to take Child's passport, Parent 1 took Child to Sta...
Citations: Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act sections 201, 204, 208, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...custody and parenting-time analysis. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Parent 1 and Parent 2 are divorcing and have one 10-year-old child. For the past six years, Parent 2 earned $145,000 per year as a hospital administrator. Three months before the support hearing, Parent 2 resigned and op...
Citations: State child-support guideline principles, Uniform family-law principles
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