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;adjournment:The suspension of a hearing or trial, usually when the hearing or trial cannot proceed on the date scheduled or because it cannot complete within the time scheduled. | ;adjournment:The suspension of a hearing or trial, usually when the hearing or trial cannot proceed on the date scheduled or because it cannot complete within the time scheduled. | ||
;adoption:In family law, the act or process of taking another person's natural child as one's own. The child becomes the adopting parent's legal child as if the child were the adopting parent's natural child, while the natural parent loses all rights and obligations with respect to the child. See "natural parent". | ;adoption:In family law, the act or process of taking another person's natural child as one's own. The child becomes the adopting parent's legal child as if the child were the adopting parent's natural child, while the natural parent loses all rights and obligations with respect to the child. See "natural parent". | ||
;Adoption Act:A provincial law dealing with the ability to adopt and the adoption process. | ;''Adoption Act'':A provincial law dealing with the ability to adopt and the adoption process. | ||
;adoptive parent:A person who has formally assumed the status of parent to a child who is not his or her biological offspring. See "adoption" and "natural parent". | ;adoptive parent:A person who has formally assumed the status of parent to a child who is not his or her biological offspring. See "adoption" and "natural parent". | ||
;adultery:A married person's voluntarily sexual intercourse with a person other than his or her spouse; cheating; playing the field; fishing out of season. Proof of adultery is grounds for an immediate divorce, providing that the other spouse has not consented to or forgiven the adulterous act. See "collusion", "condonation" and "divorce, grounds of". | ;adultery:A married person's voluntarily sexual intercourse with a person other than his or her spouse; cheating; playing the field; fishing out of season. Proof of adultery is grounds for an immediate divorce, providing that the other spouse has not consented to or forgiven the adulterous act. See "collusion", "condonation" and "divorce, grounds of". | ||
