A 17-year-old enters a marriage that state law treats as voidable by the underage spouse. After turning 18, the spouse continues living with the other person as a spouse for two years before seeking annulment based on ag...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 208
A person enters a marriage ceremony in good faith, believing the other party is unmarried. Years later, the person learns that the other party's prior marriage was never dissolved. Which statement best describes the good...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 209
A person participates in a marriage ceremony with a new partner while still legally married to a prior spouse. The divorce from the prior spouse is not final until three months after the second ceremony. What is the usua...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 207
After 18 years of marriage, Spouse A filed for divorce from Spouse B in a state that uses equitable distribution. Before the marriage, Spouse A owned a brokerage account worth $90,000. During the marriage, Spouse A depos...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
After a 22-year marriage, one spouse earns $180,000 per year. The other spouse left paid employment for 15 years to care for the household and now needs education to return to work. The lower-earning spouse seeks spousal...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 308
Jordan and Morgan obtained a marriage license in State C. The license expired 30 days later. Forty days after issuance, they held a ceremony before a longtime friend who honestly believed that an online ordination author...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 201, 207
Spouses married for 12 years. Both worked until the final year of the marriage, when Spouse X secretly withdrew $70,000 from a joint savings account and lost most of it gambling during weekend trips. Spouse X also transf...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
State J permits divorce on a finding that the marriage is irretrievably broken. One spouse files after satisfying all jurisdictional requirements and proves that the parties have not lived together for a year and have no...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 305
Two adults with capacity obtain a marriage license and hold a ceremony before a person they reasonably believe is authorized to officiate. After years of living as spouses, they learn that the officiant's authorization p...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 201, 207
A couple lives in a state that recognizes common-law marriage. They never held a ceremony or obtained a license. One partner claims they became married without formal solemnization. Which facts are most important to comm...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Spouses live in a community-property state. During marriage, one spouse earns wages and the other spouse receives an inheritance from a parent and keeps it in a separate account. Which statement is most accurate? The que...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act section 4
Ten years after marriage, spouses sign a written agreement reclassifying one spouse's separate investment account as joint property. Each spouse has counsel and receives full financial disclosure. Later, one spouse argue...
Citations: Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act sections 9, 10, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Two first cousins marry in State X, where that marriage is valid. They later move to State Y, whose statute declares marriages between first cousins void and states that such marriages are contrary to State Y's strong pu...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws section 283
...ent's will leaves all probate property to adult children from a prior marriage and omits the surviving spouse. The spouses had no premarital or marital agreement. Which statement is most accurate? The question tests surv...
Citations: Uniform Probate Code section 2-202, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
...who owes more than $5,000 in unpaid civil judgments from receiving a marriage license unless the creditor consents. An engaged couple challenges the law after one partner is denied a license because of an unpaid debt fr...
Citations: U.S. Const. amend. XIV, Loving v. Virginia, Zablocki v. Redhail, Obergefell v. Hodges
After marriage, one spouse discovers that the other lied about being wealthy and also lied about intending to have children. The spouse seeks annulment based on fraud. Which statement best describes the fraud analysis? T...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Before marriage, a spouse signed a written agreement after full disclosure waiving any elective share in the other spouse's estate. After the other spouse dies, the surviving spouse seeks an elective share anyway. Which...
Citations: Uniform Probate Code section 2-213, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Before marriage, Spouse owned a small business worth $80,000. During the marriage, Spouse worked full-time in the business, used marital earnings to hire staff, and increased the business value to $500,000. At divorce, S...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Before marriage, two adults sign a written agreement after exchanging financial disclosures. The agreement provides that each spouse waives claims to the other's premarital property and elective share. Which statement is...
Citations: Uniform Premarital Agreement Act section 6, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
During a 16-year marriage, one spouse earned wages and contributed part of those wages to a retirement account titled only in that spouse's name. At divorce, the employee spouse argues that the account is separate proper...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
During marriage, a spouse receives a $100,000 inheritance from a parent and places the money in a separate account titled only in that spouse's name. No marital wages are deposited into that account. At divorce, the othe...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
During marriage, Husband privately told Wife, "I hid the counterfeit checks in the garage." Husband and Wife later divorced. In Husband's federal criminal trial, prosecutors call Wife to testify about the private stateme...
Citations: Fed. R. Evid. 501
During marriage, one spouse worked full-time and paid household expenses while the other spouse attended medical school and obtained a medical degree. At divorce, the working spouse asks the court to divide the degree it...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
During marriage, Riley bought a small photography studio with inherited funds and titled the studio solely in Riley's name. Riley operated the studio, signed all vendor contracts, and told customers that Riley alone owne...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Restatement (Third) of Agency sections 2.01, 2.03
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