Across
- 2. a problem taken to a law court by an ordinary person or an organization rather than the police in order to obtain a legal decision
- 3. someone who spends a lot of money in a way that wastes it
- 5. a home or permanent place to live
- 7. a person who brings a case against another in a court of law
- 8. money that a person must pay regularly by law in order to support their child or previous marriage partner after a divorce
- 13. a person's husband or wife
- 14. the state of being a parent
- 16. physical and mental health and happiness, especially of a person
- 18. an act of slapping, especially on the buttocks as a punishment for children
Down
- 1. an arrangement in which a divorced parent may spend time with the children he or she no longer lives with, at agreed times and under agreed conditions
- 4. far away in distance
- 6. the process by which someone tries to end a disagreement by helping the two sides to talk about and agree on a solution
- 9. The money, property, or assets that someone receives from a person who has died
- 10. a person trained to give guidance on personal or psychological problems
- 11. the legal right to look after a child
- 12. to forbid
- 15. a person who has been accused of breaking the law and is being tried in court
- 17. financial payments made to support a spouse or former spouse during separation or following divorce