PROPERTY SETTLEMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("property settlement" is a kind of...):

settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)

Domain category:

matrimonial law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimony)