Society, General Knowledge for Vocational Schools (ABU), Vocabulary, Chapter 7
Vocabulary, Chapter 7
Vocabulary, Chapter 7
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prerequisites for marriage
capacity to enter marriage; the age of majority and competency
relatives
persons who are connected to others by blood, marriage or adoption
responsibility
the ethical responsibility that a person has and takes for the consequences of what they do or do not do with respect to others
custody
child custody, or the right accorded to a parent or both parents to raise, protect, care, and educate a minor child or children, and determine its residence especially in a divorce or separation
single
a person who is unmarried or not in a romantic relationship or domestic partnership
role
behaviour that meets the expectations of society
patchwork family
a form of cohabitation in which children live with one parent and that parent's current partner, possibly along with the children of the new partner from the current or previous relationship
partnership
social community formed between people, groups or states
multiculturalism
cultural diversity
testamentary disposition
arrangement regulating asset succession in the case of death (by testament or contract of inheritance)
concubinage
cohabitation of two people who are not married or living as registered partners
conflict
arguments, disputes, disagreements that arise due to difference of opinions or difficult situations
parental affiliation
law that clarifies who a child's mother and father is
property law
law that regulates the division of assets, for instance, of the marriage partners within a marriage
gender equality
Article of the Federal Constitution which guarantees equality between all men and women in Switzerland
family law
law governing legal status in the family context (marriage, relatives, adult protection)
family policy
measures the government takes to support and foster families (family law, taxes)
family
a basic social unit consisting of parents, at least one child, and possibly other relatives, considered a group, whether dwelling together or not
education/ upbringing
training of competences and behaviour, which are required of and allow a person to function favourably in society
joint marital property
joint ownership of acquired property, e.g. in a marriage or domestic partnership, which is divided into personal property and personal acquisition, e.g. at the time of a divorce
marital property
assets which were generated during a marriage and divided at the time of a divorce
estate distribution
distribution of an inheritance or estate, taking into account the line of succession in inheritance laws and right to a compulsory portion
inheritance law
law which governs how a person’s wealth is divided after death
registered partnership
a legally recognized long-term life partnership of a same-sex couple
personal property
assets that belong to a spouse and stay with said spouse during and after a divorce
divorce
a judicial declaration dissolving a marriage
marriage
legally recognised long-term life partnership between two people to live as a married couple
