Desertion means the relinquishment or surrender for a period in excess of six months of the parental rights, duties, or privileges inherent in the parent-child relationship. Proof of desertion need not include the intention to desert, but is evidenced by the lack of attempted contact with the child or by only incidental contact with the child.
Desertion means some Act done without the consent of the other party and without just cause or excuse which manifests an intention to put an end to the matrimonial relationship and which in fact does so. The adultery of a deserted party after the desertion has commenced does not of itself put an end to the desertion. In particular and without limiting the generality of the foregoing desertion may consist of an Act or a series of acts by one party reasonably calculated to cause and actually causing the other to leave the party at fault;
Desertion or “deserts” means to leave a child in a place or with a person other than a relative with the intent not to return to the child and with the intent not to provide for the care of the child.
Examples of Desertion in a sentence
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More Definitions of Desertion
Desertion means abandonment against the will of the person charging it;
Desertion means that the parent(s) has willfully forsaken the child and has refused to carry out normal parental rights and obligations and that, as a result, the child has become a ward of a competent authority in accordance with the laws of the foreign-sending country. Desertion does not mean that the parent(s) has disappeared, but rather that he and/or she refuses to carry out his or her parent rights and obligations towards the child. Desertion differs from abandonment in that the parent(s) has not taken steps to divest him or herself of parental duties, but that parent's inaction has caused a local authority to step in and assume custody of the child.
Desertion means where an employee leaves the services of the employer without giving notice as specified in this Agreement or is absent for a period of three days or more without advising his employer and without good cause; "designated trade" means one of the trades designated for the Industry in terms of the Skills Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxx, 0000, read in conjunction with section 16(1) of the MPTA, 1981;
Desertion means the offence referred to in paragraph (a) of subsec- tion (1) of section 42 of the Act of 1923;
Desertion means the cessation of the operation at any Drill Site without compliance with this Ordinance relating to suspended operations, idle wells, or Abandonment.
Desertion means an abdication by one party to the
Desertion means that one spouse has been abandoned by the other against his/ her wishes. Desertion is where one party has the intention to desert the other and this desertion is not consensual. Thus, it is not merely characterised by physical separation.