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Term Definition Legal Causation - a legal or moral duty due the claimant, which must be breached and is the cause of injury or damage he or she sustained.
Application in Divorce Also known as proximate cause, legal causation is the factor that brings about harm.

Legal causation is an element of a tort.

In abandonment.

In no-fault divorce there is no breaching of duty.