Attorney: law degree who is authorized to act on behalf of his client before courts and tribunals. Colabora con el abogado. Collaborates with the lawyer. Su presencia es obligatoria en los procesos judiciales de divorcio. Their presence is required in judicial proceedings for divorce.

Board compensation: amount judicially established that one of the spouses has to pay to the other in order to offset the economic damage suffered after divorce.

Capitulate marriage: contract signed before a notary by spouses before or during marriage by which stipulates the economic regime. No es obligatorio. It is not mandatory. In Spain, except in some Communities, the regime that is supposed defaults to the company acquisitions.

Convention regulator: contract signed by both spouses in the process of divorce and separation by mutual agreement. Set everything related to child custody and division of property. It must be ratified by a court.

Custody: term referred to with whom they live normally unemancipated minor children in case of divorce.

Divorce: legal process that aims to declare the dissolution of marriage.

Guard and custody: see custody.

Interim measures: are those that establishes a court relating to the custody of the children and the economic situation, pending divorce or separation.

Litis expense: Latin term that refers to the possibility that the costs of divorce proceedings to be taken over by one of the spouses. It was always the other to act in good faith and does not have the financial means needed to deal with the process.

Loads marriage expenses, debts and needs of a family to maintain its normal rhythm of life.

Maintenance: economic amount that the spouse who does not have custody of the children had to pay for them in terms of food, shelter and everything else deemed essential.

Parental responsibility: rights and duties stipulated by law that parents have over their children unemancipated minors or incapacitated.

Participation: economic regime in which each spouse has its own assets and manages them freely. Both are entitled to enjoy the benefits that produce such goods. Anyone who has obtained more benefits, offset by side in the event of divorce.

Regime economic marriage: how to divide and divide the assets and profits earned during the marriage between the two spouses. There are three possibilities: Society of acquisitions, separation of property and participation.

Regime visits: it is the right of the parent who does not have custody of the children to be able to visit and contact them. In the judgment of the court or the regulatory agreement establishing the number and duration.

Separation of property: prenuptial that each spouse has, manages and enjoy their property freely. Their only obligation in the event of divorce would contribute to the costs marriage.

Shared Custody: custody by which unemancipated minor children live periods of time with each of their parents. Both must share the responsibility for the child.

Society of acquisitions: economic regime of marriages in which the assets and profits earned during the marriage belongs to both spouses. In case of divorce, be divided equally between the two.