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Visitation in the U.S.

Usually speaking, visitation is considered only a concession granted to the non-custodial parent of any child of the family. The normal visitation awards by the family court in most U.S. states consists of alternating weekends and some holidays (regularly amounting to four days a month unless the parent allows an increase in shared parenting time).

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Administrative Law

United States administrative law covers a number of statutes and cases which describe the extent of the powers and responsibilities held by administrative agencies of the United States Government. The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. federal government cannot always directly perform their constitutional responsibilities. Specialized powers are therefore delegated to an agency, board, or commission. These administrative governmental bodies oversee and monitor activities in complex areas, such as commercial aviation, medical device manufacturing, and securities markets.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages.

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Economic, social and cultural rights (ESC) are socio-economic human rights, different from civil and political rights. Economic, social and cultural rights are incorporated in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and outlined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Examples of such rights include the right to food, the right to shelter, and the right to health.

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Service tax

Service tax is a tax levied on services rendered by a individual and the liability of payment of the tax is cast on the service provider. It is an indirect tax as it can be recovered from the service receiver by the service provider in path of his business transactions.

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Arbitration

Arbitration is defined as an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism in which the parties get their disputes settled through the intervention of a third person and without having recourse to the court of law. It is a mode in which the dispute is referred to a nominated person who decides the issue in a quasi-judicial manner after hearing both sides. Generally, the disputing parties refer their case to an arbitral tribunal and the decision arrived at by the tribunal is known as an 'award'.

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Property law

Property law is the area of law that rules the various form of possession in real property (land as different from personal or variable possessions) and in personal property, within the common law legal system. In the civil law system, there is a division amid movable and immovable property. Movable property roughly corresponds to personal property, while fixed property corresponds to real estate or real property, and the associated rights and compulsion thereon.

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