Four Things to Understand About Community Property
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COMMUNITY PROPERTY
This term applies to the proprty that is held between a husband and wife and belongs to both of them.
RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY TREATMENT CENTER
See halfway house.
COMMUNITY OF INTEREST
the interest that applies to all of the parties that embarking upon or engaged in a common enterprise.
VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
Community dispersed geographically but connected via the web community and internet. Also known as online or web community.
MODIFIED COMMUNITY RATING
Using data from a particular area for specific medical expenses as a way of establishing the rates.
EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY
Collaborative managing group for many countries in Europe over the combined production of coal, iron and steel. The Treaty of Paris in 1951 began this effort. In 2002 this community merged with
COMMUNITY BANK
A bank owned by the local community. There is no national presence and are found in the locality that runs them. They are independent institutions.
COMMUNITY CURRENCY
Paper money that a county uses to boost sales in their local business’s. The businesses have to deal with the taxes on such currency on their own.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (CDFI)
A group of banks the U.S. Treasury Department certifies. It is made to create opportunity and credit in challenged areas. They are modeled after the Community Development Corporations.
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
A company that the residents support with donations through endowment funds.
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
A network of peers with shared skills in a profession. Each member is driven to help eachother. AKA community of interest.
COMMUNITY RELATIONS
How a firm interacts with the people in it.
BEDROOM COMMUNITY
When a residential area is full of commuters. They work somewhere else and simply sleep at their homes.
COMMUNITY
A society of people living in the same place, under the same laws and regulations, and who have common rights and privileges. In re Huss, 120 N. Y. 537, 27 N. E.
COMMUNITY DEBT
One chargeable to the community (of husband and wife) rather than to either of the parties individually. Calhoun v. Leary, 6 Wash. 17. 32 Pac. 1070.
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
Community property is property acquired by husband and wife, or either, during marriage, when not acquired as the separate property of cither. In re Lux’s Estate, 114 Cal. 73, 45 Pac. 1023;
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