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Protective orders may be needed if there is a danger of violence or of a change in the status of marital property such as by a spouse selling it or moving it out of the state.

Contingent fees in family law cases are always ethical.

________________________ is unreasonable conduct that causes injury or damage to someone to whom you owe a duty of reasonable care.

The ________________________ is the court’s answer to a legal issue.

Electronic data discovery (EDD) involves

If the entire law firm is disqualified because of the conflict of interest in one attorney, there has been a(n)________________________ disqualification.

Most of family law is written by the federal government.

Family law has not changed much because society’s definition of a family has not changed.

If a case is uncontested, a party’s positions are not challenged.

Write a short essay (at least two substantial paragraphs) analyzing one of the passages below. Include the following: What is going on in the passage? For example, who is doing what? Who is speaking, and to whom? What text is it from, and who is the author (where relevant)? How does the passage relate to the myth as a whole? E.g., what happens before and after? How could this passage be interpreted (social charter, gender, structuralism, etc.)? Refer to specific parts of the passage and use examples (e.g. from other parts of the myth, from similar or contrasting myths, etc.). Choose a different method of interpretation for each essay. Passage A: “And for the man that slew [our murdered king], whether he slew him alone or with a band of helpers, I lay this curse upon him, that the wretch in wretchedness and misery may live.” Passage B: Then glorious [name] longed for the sacred meat of sacrifice, for the sweet aroma made him weak, even though he was immortal. But his noble heart did not yield, although his desire was overwhelming to gulp the offering down his holy throat. Passage C: “I call on you, the one who desires to see what he should not see and hastens upon what he should not do. Come forward out of the house, let me behold you dressed in the garb of a woman….about to go as a spy on your mother and her group.” Passage D: “Of all living, sentient creatures, women are the most unfortunate… I’d sooner stand behind a shield three times in battle than give birth once.”