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).
North Jackson is an unincorporated community in central Jackson Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44451. It lies along State Route 45 between Salem and Warren. The community is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. North Jackson is the site of a Marian shrine of the Roman Catholic Church, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon.