...The decree also ordered Spouse A to pay Spouse B $3,000 per month in spousal maintenance until further order of the court. The decree did not say maintenance was nonmodifiable. Spouse A paid the property installments fo...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 316, 319
...now needs education to return to work. The lower-earning spouse seeks spousal maintenance. Which statement best describes the court's analysis? The question tests the basic factors for spousal maintenance. NCBE MEE Subje...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 308
...r property division and maintenance. This question tests property and support agreements in divorce, including voluntariness...
Citations: Uniform Premarital Agreement Act sections 2, 6, Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act sections 9, 10, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...urt treat the accrued arrears? The question tests treatment of unpaid spousal-maintenance arrears. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 316
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 316
...in the other's estate, and that neither spouse would ever seek child support for any future child. Ten years later, Investor died. Investor's will left most assets to Investor's adult child from a prior relationship. Te...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Premarital Agreement Act section 6, Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act sections 9, 10
...medical bill, rent, and bracelet. Address contractual liability, the spousal duty of support, and limits on necessaries. This question tests spousal support obligations to third parties while the marriage continues. NCB...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 308
...dical bills, and told both families he intended to raise the child. Before the birth, Mother moved without telling Father and placed the baby for adoption with Adoptive Parents. Father did not know the state had a putati...
Citations: Lehr v. Robertson, 463 U.S. 248 (1983), Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 (1972), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
A parent with the ability to pay support and communicate has no contact with a child and pays no support for three years, despite knowing where the child lives. A stepparent seeks adoption without that parent's consent...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...145,000 per year as a hospital administrator. Three months before the support hearing, Parent 2 resigned and opened a small furniture-restoration business that currently nets $2,200 per month. Parent 2 says the career ch...
Citations: State child-support guideline principles, Uniform family-law principles
After 18 years of marriage, Spouse A filed for divorce from Spouse B in a state that uses equitable distribution. Before the marriage, Spouse A owned a brokerage account worth $90,000. During the marriage, Spouse A depos...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
...nerated by work during the marriage. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...the acknowledgment until eight months later. Mother later seeks child support from Spouse in the divorce case and from Bio Parent in a separate parentage proceeding. Spouse denies any duty to support Child because of the...
Citations: Uniform Parentage Act principles, State child-support principles
...nt building, mortgage payments, improvements, truck, inheritance, and support request. This question uses a community-property frame to test classification and reimbursement, while keeping support analytically separate...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act sections 4, 17
...shifts debt shortly before divorce. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
...PT file asks you to draft the argument section of a trial-court brief supporting a motion to suppress evidence seized from a backpack. The file includes the officer's report, a transcript of the stop, and a library with...
Citations: NCBE MPT preparation materials, NCBE MPT test-day instructions
...s the distinction between final property awards and modifiable future support. 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
...Which statement best describes modern law? The question tests modern spousal property capacity during marriage. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...c meaning of equitable distribution. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 307
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 307
...n that there was never any marriage and that Blake has no property or support rights. Blake seeks recognition as a spouse or, alternatively, putative-spouse relief. Discuss the likely marital-status and financial-rights...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 207, 209
...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
...c community-property classification. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act section 4
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act section 4
...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
...e account. Which statement is most accurate? The question tests basic spousal property rights in a community-property system. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act section 4
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act section 4
...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
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