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This family relationship represents a married couple. There is no
special symbol to distinguish a civil marriage from a religious marriage.
This information is easily added to the family properties. |
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This is the generic symbol to describe
a married couple who is no longer living together. A separation is displayed
by a single oblique bar. |
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The married couple is separated and has begun legal procedure for an
eventual divorce. If you know that a couple is separated, but you are not
sure at what point they are in the legal procedure, it is recommended to use
the separation in fact symbol. |
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The married couple has been granted a divorce. |
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The marriage was annulled. This is a rare case and legally, it signifies
that the marriage never really took place. However, it could be useful to
include an annulled marriage in the genogram. |
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One of the spouse died while the two individuals
were married. Use this symbol only when the surviving spouse re-married,
otherwise everyone in your ancestry will be widowed. |
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The two individuals are planning to marry. This status is often achieved
by an exchange of engagement rings or an engagement party. |
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Same as above, except the individuals are living together before the
wedding. |
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There is a legal paper trail about the cohabitation. The two individuals
have a written contract about the cohabitation status, involving benefits
such as parental responsibility, common ownership, and inheritance. |
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The two individuals no longer live together, and are involved in the
process of terminating their cohabitation contract. |
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The cohabitation contract has been terminated. |
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Although there is no legal definition of cohabitation, it generally
means to live under the same roof as a couple, without being married. Use
this relationship to define the generic common law spouse. There is
no such thing as illegal cohabitation! |
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The generic symbol for two
individuals no longer living together. |
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A relation where two individuals live together, but there is no exchange
of affection. This could be said of a couple who do not share a bedroom. |
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The action of seeing someone or dating. This does not involve any type
of cohabitation. |
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The two individuals are no longer dating. This could be called
ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend. Be aware, the term ex-boyfriend and
ex-girlfriend may also be used for
cohabitation and separation. |
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This is the polite term for having a mistress or a one night stand.
Include this type of relationship in the genogram if a child results from
such a relationship. |
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One individual is abusing or has abused the other individual, including
including date-rape, drug-rape and wife-rape. This type of relationship is
mostly used in therapy or when a child was the product of such relationship. |
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A relationship not specified in the list above or unknown to the creator
of the genogram. Use this symbol to highlight a unusual type of
relationship. |
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Since GenoPro does not create information, a blank value is used to
describe an unspecified relationship when creating a new family. This is
the symbol used by GenoPro to indicate the user has not yet specified the
type of relationship. |