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Impeachment: The act of proving a
witness is not credible due to inconsistent statements or
other conflicting evidence.
In Camera: When proceedings are held in
the chambers of a judge without the participating parties.
This is usually the procedure followed when children testify.
Income and Expense Declaration: The
form completed by a parent under oath stating that parent's
income, assets, expenses and liabilities. The document is used
to help determine child support to be paid by the non -
custodial parent.
Incompatibility: The state of a
marriage in which the spouses no longer have the mutual desire
to live together and/or stay married, and is thus a ground for
divorce (dissolution) in most states even though the other
spouse may disagree.
Incompatible: 1) Inconsistent. 2)
Unmatching. 3) Unable to live together as husband and wife due
to irreconcilable differences. In no-fault divorce states, if
one of the spouses desires to end the marriage, that fact
proves incompatibility, and a divorce (dissolution) will be
granted even though the other spouse does not want a divorce.
The term also has the general meaning that two people do not
get along with each other.
Incorporation: Part of civil law,
making one document part of another. For example, the
Agreement becomes part of the Decree in Divorce.
Injunction: A court order preventing
someone from doing a particular act which is likely to cause
physical, mental injury or property loss of another
individual.
Intangible Assets: Items of personal
property; examples; franchises, trademarks, patents,
copyrights, goodwill.
Intangible Value: A value that cannot
be imputed to any part of the physical property.
Intentional Infliction of Emotional
Distress: Intentionally causing severe emotional distress
by extreme or outrageous conduct.
Intercept: A process by which CSE
agencies take part of a non-custodial parent's unemployment
insurance payments, disability insurance payments, income tax
returns and lottery gains to pay child support arrearages owed
by the non-custodial parent.
Interlocutory Hearing: Any hearing at
which a pretrial or court ruling is requested.
Interrogatories: A group of questions
served upon the opposing party to gain knowledge pertaining to
the issues in the matrimonial proceedings.
Inventory and Appraisement: A listing
and valuation of properties owned by the parties seeking a
divorce.
Investment Analysis: A process in which
the attractiveness of an investment is measured by analyzing
ratios.
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