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Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

Source: U.S. Courts

The ability of a child to form significant and stable emotional connections with other people, beginning in early infancy with one or more primary caretakers. Failure to establish such connections before the age of five may result in difficulties with social relationships as severe as Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Source: Children Welfare Information Gateway

(1) Document attached to court papers to give more information; (2) A way to collect a judgment: by getting a court order that says you can take a piece of property.

Source: California Courts.

Last reviewed October 2022