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con·ni·vance /kə-'nī-vəns/ n: the act of conniving esp. with regard to a spouse's marital misconduct (as adultery); also: a defense to a charge of marital misconduct in a divorce proceeding compare condonation
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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act of maneuvering, act of scheming, alliance, association, chicanery, coagency, coincidence, collaboration, collusion, combined operation, complicity, complot, concert, concord, concurrence, concurrent opinion, confederacy, conjunction, conspiracy, contrivance, cooperation, corrupt agreement, corrupt collusion, corrupt consent, corrupt consenting, corrupt cooperation, implied assent, indulgentia, intrigue, joint effort, joint planning, junction, league, liaison, machination, manipulation, participation, plot, scheme, secret approval, underhand participation, underhanded complicity, underplot, voluntary oversight, working together
associated concepts: connivance as a defense to a divorce
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artifice, bad faith, bribery, cabal, collusion, confederacy (conspiracy), conspiracy, contrivance
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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1) Ignoring another person's wrongdoing, for example, by indirectly condoning an illegal act by another person.2) In family law, a (somewhat archaic) defense that says that a person making claims against a spouse connived in the spouse's bad behavior. For example, a husband who invites his wife's lover along on vacation may have connived in her adultery, and if he tried to gain an advantage in the divorce as a result, she could assert his connivance as a defense.Category: Divorce & Family Law → Divorce, Child Support & Custody
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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1 n. The assent to, encouragement of, or promotion of another's wrongdoing by silence or feigned ignorance.See also conspiracy.2 v. To be in collusion with another person.See also conspiracy.3 n. In family law, the consent by one spouse of the other spouse's improper conduct (such as adultery), either in advance of the conduct or while it is occurring, when that wrongful conduct is a potential ground for divorce.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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The furtive consent of one person to cooperate with another in the commission of an unlawful act or crime—such as an employer's agreement not to withhold taxes from the salary of an employee who wants to evade federal income tax. The false consent that a plaintiff gave to a defendant's past conduct during their marriage which the plaintiff presently alleges as a ground for divorce.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The furtive consent of one person to cooperate with another in the commission of an unlawful act or crime—such as an employer's agreement not to withhold taxes from the salary of an employee who wants to evade federal income tax. The false consent that a plaintiff gave to a defendant's past conduct during their marriage which the plaintiff presently alleges as a ground for divorce.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
