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 ;family debts: Debts that you take on during your relationship that you still owe on the date you separate. They can also be debts you take on after your separation date to maintain family property.
+;family property: Family property is everything either you or your spouse own together or separately on the date you separate.
+;final order: A court order that does not have a time limit. It is permanent.
+;guardian: A person who has the right to make decisions about a child, such as:
+*where the child will live or go to school,
+*the sort of medical and dental care the child will receive, and
+*what religion the child will be raised in.
+;guardianship: The position of being legally responsible for a child.
+;impartial: Not involved in a particular situation, and therefore able to give a fair opinion or piece of advice.
+;interim order: A temporary court order. It has a time limit. You can get an interim order when you need to make decisions right away.
+;intention: A plan to do something.
+;mediator: A person that tries to end a dispute between people by discussion.
+;parental responsibilities: The responsibility of guardian(s) is to make decisions about the child’s life. These can include decisions about daily care, as well as larger ones about health care, education, religious upbringing, etc.
+;parenting arrangements: The arrangements made for parental responsibilities and parenting time in a court order or agreement between guardians.
+;parenting time: The time that a guardian has with a child under an order or agreement.
+;permission: To allow someone to do something.
+;protection order: A court order made to protect someone from violence.
+;relocate: Move out of the area, move to another place.
+;responsibility: Something a person must do.
+;separation: A situation in which a married couple or common-law couple agree to live apart.
+;spouse: A married person or a person in marriage-like relationship.
+;temporary: For a limited time only.
+==Young people and the law==
+;anonymously: You do not have to give your name, for example, when you phone a help line.
+;confidential: When information is confidential, the person you tell is not allowed to tell anyone else about it.
+;contribute: To help bring about something better.
+;court order: An order or decision made by a law court.
+;custom: Something that is done by people in a particular society because it is traditional.
+;discipline: To punish someone in order to keep order and control.
+;discrimination: Treating someone differently from other people in a way that is unfair.
+;mistreated: To treat badly, to abuse.
+;permission: To allow someone to do something.
+;responsibility: Something a person must do.
+;sentence: The punishment a person receives after being found guilty of or pleading guilty to committing a crime.
+;young offender: Criminal offenders who are 12 years or older and 18 years or younger.
+;youth record: A record of a young person's involvement in Canada's youth justice system.
+==Elder law==
+;advance directive: Instructions to your representative or to your doctor about what kind of health care you want and don't want if you have a serious medical condition. Sometimes called a "living will."
+;alternate attorney: An alternate person who can manage your financial, business and legal matters if your attorney cannot.
+;attorney: A person you appoint to manage financial, business and legal matters for you.
+;confidential: Will not be shared with anyone else, e.g., confidential information.
+;designated agencies: Agencies that have a legal responsibility to look into reports of adult abuse and neglect.
+;donor: The person who gives power of attorney to someone to manage.
+;enduring power of attorney: A power of attorney that continues if you become mentally incapable.
+;enhanced representation agreement: Gives authority to your representative to make personal and health care decisions for you, possibly including end-of-life decisions.
+;estate: Everything that is left when you die.
+;executor: The person you appoint in your Will to distribute your estate when you die. The executor carries out your instructions.
+;financial, business and legal matters: The time that a person who is not a guardian spends with the child. This person could be a parent who does not have guardianship or another relative, like a grandparent.
+;limited power of attorney: A power of attorney for a specific action, with a time limit.
+;mental capacity: The ability to understand decisions and make them.
+;mental incapacity/mentally incapable: Not having the ability to understand decisions and make them. Someone who cannot understand decisions and make them is mentally incapable.
+;mistreatment: Treating someone badly.
+;misuse: Using something in the wrong way.
+;power of attorney: A legal document that allows an attorney to manage your financial, business and legal matters for you.
+;representation agreement: A legal document that allows the person you name as your representative to make personal and health care decisions for you.
+;revoke: Cancel, end.
+;specific: Particular, distinct.
+;springing power of attorney: A power of attorney that takes effect only when a particular event has taken place.
+;standard representation agreement: Gives limited authority to your representative to make some health and routine financial decisions for you.
+;will: A written legal document that contains your instructions about what happens to your estate when you die.
 {{REVIEWED | reviewer = [[People's Law School]], 2013}}

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