Separate maintenance

Definition - Noun
: maintenance paid (as by court order) from one spouse to another during separation <entitlement to separate maintenance does not extend to the division of marital assets ­Kennedy v. Kennedy, 662 So. 2d 179 (1995)>



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slight negligence

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