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Range of Value: The range, or confidence
interval, in which the final estimate of a property's value may
lie.
Real Estate: Physical land and
appurtenances affixed to the land: land.
Real Property: All interests, benefits, and
rights inherent in the ownership of physical real estate.
Rebuttal: An introduction of evidence in
response to a matter raised by the opposing party.
Reciprocity: The process of cooperation
between states and countries to establish and enforce child
support orders. Laws and court orders of each jurisdiction are
recognized and enforced.
Reconciliation: Resuming the martial
relationship.
Record: All of the testimony and evidence
that is used in court to decide a case. What is on record is what
the Judge will use to make his or her decision.
Recross: The second round of cross -
examination that occurs after redirect in a trial.
Redirect: The second round of direct
examination that occurs in the trial after cross-examination.
Registry: The entity through which the
court receives and disburses money, as in child support payments.
Rehabilitative Alimony: Alimony intended to
help the ex-spouse become financial self sufficient.
Reimbursement: A fixed amount stated in a
judgment which would order the defendant to pay back to the
government welfare which the government paid on behalf of the
child.
Release: A document that frees up a
person's right or claimed right to something. It is usually given
in exchange for something else, typically another release or
money.
Remand: The act of sending a case back to
the judge to be retried because of a significant mistake made by
the judge during the first trial.
Reproduction Cost: The estimated cost to
construct, at current prices, a building with utility equivalent
to the building being appraised, using modern materials and
current standards, design, and layout, and quality of workmanship,
and embodying all the subject's deficiencies, superadquacies, and
obsolescence.
Request for Production: Part of the
Discovery process. One attorney asks that the other side produce
financial documents he or she feels are necessary to the case.
Residence: The place where a spouse lives.
Respondent: The defendant in a divorce.
Response: The formal document filed by the
defendant (respondent) to answer the complaint or summons.
Restraining Order: A court order
restricting a person's actions. They are sometimes issued by one
spouse to try to deter the other spouse from committing violent
acts.
Retainer: A fee paid to an attorney to work
on a case.
Retainer Agreement: A written contract
between lawyer and client delineating their responsibilities to
each other.
Right of Survivorship: The right of joint
owners to receive the other's share of property upon the death of
the other owner.
Rules of Evidence: The rules that pertain
to the deliverance of evidence in hearings or depositions.
RURESA - Revised Uniform Reciprocal
Enforcement of Support Act, which facilitates interstate
enforcement of support orders.