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Range of Value: The range, or
confidence interval, in which the final estimate of a
property's value may lie.
Real Estate: Physical land and
appurtenances affixed to the land: land.
Real Property: All interests, benefits,
and rights inherent in the ownership of physical real estate.
Rebuttal: An introduction of evidence
in response to a matter raised by the opposing party.
Reciprocity: The process of cooperation
between states and countries to establish and enforce child
support orders. Laws and court orders of each jurisdiction are
recognized and enforced.
Reconciliation: Resuming the martial
relationship.
Record: All of the testimony and
evidence that is used in court to decide a case. What is on
record is what the Judge will use to make his or her decision.
Recross: The second round of cross -
examination that occurs after redirect in a trial.
Redirect: The second round of direct
examination that occurs in the trial after cross-examination.
Registry: The entity through which the
court receives and disburses money, as in child support
payments.
Rehabilitative Alimony: Alimony
intended to help the ex-spouse become financial self
sufficient.
Reimbursement: A fixed amount stated in
a judgment which would order the defendant to pay back to the
government welfare which the government paid on behalf of the
child.
Release: A document that frees up a
person's right or claimed right to something. It is usually
given in exchange for something else, typically another
release or money.
Remand: The act of sending a case back
to the judge to be retried because of a significant mistake
made by the judge during the first trial.
Reproduction Cost: The estimated cost
to construct, at current prices, a building with utility
equivalent to the building being appraised, using modern
materials and current standards, design, and layout, and
quality of workmanship, and embodying all the subject's
deficiencies, superadquacies, and obsolescence.
Request for Production: Part of the
Discovery process. One attorney asks that the other side
produce financial documents he or she feels are necessary to
the case.
Residence: The place where a spouse
lives.
Respondent: The defendant in a divorce.
Response: The formal document filed by
the defendant (respondent) to answer the complaint or summons.
Restraining Order: A court order
restricting a person's actions. They are sometimes issued by
one spouse to try to deter the other spouse from committing
violent acts.
Retainer: A fee paid to an attorney to
work on a case.
Retainer Agreement: A written contract
between lawyer and client delineating their responsibilities
to each other.
Right of Survivorship: The right of
joint owners to receive the other's share of property upon the
death of the other owner.
Rules of Evidence: The rules that
pertain to the deliverance of evidence in hearings or
depositions.
RURESA - Revised Uniform Reciprocal
Enforcement of Support Act, which facilitates interstate
enforcement of support orders.
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