Conjugal rights refer to the mutual rights and privileges between two individuals arising from the state of being married. These rights include mutual rights of companionship, support, comfort, sexual relations, affection, joint property rights and the like.
Consent means that a person voluntarily and willfully agrees in response to another person's proposition. The person who consents must possess sufficient mental capacity.
A consent divorce refers to a divorce granted where both parties agree to the divorce, and both go to a particular jurisdiction to obtain the divorce. This type of divorce is not valid if neither spouse is domiciled in the jurisdiction where the divorce was granted.
A conservatee is a person deemed incompetent by a court; therefore, a court-appointed conservator handles their financial and/or other daily life affairs.
A conservator is an individual who handles the financial or daily life affairs of a conservatee, or a party deemed incompetent by a court.
Consortium in commercial context means an association, combination or partnership of businesses, financial institutions or investors engaged in a joint venture.
Constructive custody of the body is the legal authority over a deceased person’s remains even without physical possession, or actual custody of the body. Constructive custody typically belongs to the family, or next of kin, of the deceased.
A contestant is someone who takes part in a competition or that contests an award or person. In the context of child custody cases, a contestant is “a person, including a parent, who claims a right to custody or visitation of a child” as cited by the case of re Interest of LW v. T.W 486 NW 2d 486.
Contingent means that an event may or may not occur in the future, depending on the fulfillment of some condition that is uncertain. This term is often used in contracts where the event will not take effect until the specified condition occurs. The opposite term is vested, which means that an event is definite and unconditional.
