Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues and domestic relations including the nature of marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; issues arising during marriage, including spousal abuse, legitimacy, adoption, surrogacy, child abuse, and child abduction; the termination of the relationship and ancillary matters including divorce, annulment, property settlements, alimony, and parental responsibility orders (in the United States, child custody and visitation, child support and alimony awards).
Lafferty is an unincorporated community in northeastern Union Township, Belmont County, Ohio, United States, along Wheeling Creek. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43951. Lafferty has one church, had two railroad tracks and has a moose lodge, and it had a movie theater back in the 1930's. Lafferty is part of the Wheeling, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.