Under federal and state tax laws, alimony is deductible from gross income provided all BUT which one of the following conditions are satisfied?
A) The payments are made to a spouse or former spouse incident to a divorce decree or separation agreement.
B) The payor has the ability to choose to make the payments to a third party for the recipient's benefit and not directly to the recipient.
C) The parties are not living in the same household when the payments are made.
D) The payor has no liability for payments after death.
Q. #2Mandatory authority refers to:
a. statutes, administrative rules, executive orders, case decisions and the law; they are legally binding directives coming from governmental bodies.
b. commentary, descriptions of or analysis of the law.
c. legal authority by which a court must abide and that is binding in all situations within that authorities' jurisdiction.
d. authority that a court may follow if it is persuaded to do so.
Q. #3________ is the accessing of electronically stored information.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Q. #4The TAPP system, developed by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, suggests which of the following steps when conducting legal research?
a. Things involved, Acts involved, Persons involved, Places where the action took place
b. Parties involved in the case, Places, objects and things involved, Basis of the case, or Issues involved
c. Identify all the major words or ideas, Identify the narrower categories of these words, and Identify all closely related words.
d. None of the above
Q. #5Persuasive authority is
a. authority that a court may follow if it is persuaded to do so.
b. statutes, administrative rules, executive orders, case decisions and the law; they are legally binding directives coming from governmental bodies.
c. commentary, descriptions of or analysis of the law.
d. legal authority that a court must abide by and is binding in all situations within that authorities' jurisdiction.
Q. #6Courts may allow an in-camera review of requested ESI materials.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. #7Kaitlen and Jon have been married for ten years. Throughout the marriage, Jon has engaged in a series of extramarital affairs and spent thousands of dollars on his personal hobbies including gambling and race cars. Kaitlen has filed for divorce and is seeking alimony. Which of the following types of alimony is she LEAST likely to receive?
A) lump sum
B) temporary
C) term
D) punitive
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