______ means medical emergencies of the evaluator or evaluators family, death in the evaluators family, natural disaster or other community catastrophes that interrupt the operation of the evaluators business.

• A. Good Cause
• B. Emergency Circumstances
• C. Force Majeure
• D. Contingency

Answer: (A)

Good cause refers to grounds for delaying or excusing performance when the person faces serious personal or family hardships. Medical emergencies of the evaluator or a family member, the death of a family member, and natural disasters or other catastrophes that interrupt the evaluator’s business are exactly the kinds of events treated as good cause. They are concrete, significant reasons rooted in personal or community circumstances that justify extending deadlines or adjusting obligations.

Force majeure, by contrast, covers external, unavoidable events that physically prevent performance, but the scenarios described are tied more to personal hardship and disruption rather than generic acts of God. Contingency points to something that might happen in the future, not to an actual event that excuses present performance. Emergency circumstances describe urgent, immediate situations, but the term that most directly encompasses personal emergencies and disruptions to a business is good cause.