2. Noun. The failure to provide for one's family or other dependents ¹
3. Noun. One who fails to provide support ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonsupport
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsupport
Literary usage of Nonsupport
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1915)
"of nonsupport statutes is not to prevent wives and children from becoming a charge
upon the public for their support, but that the higher and more important ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Series— nonsupport statute furnishes cumulative remedy in determining paternity
and compelling support. Notwithstanding the provision made in chapter SO of ..."
3. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"That doctrine manifestly can have no application to cases arising under statutes
like our own, which make nonsupport, as well as desertion, ..."
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