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Joint Custody: Bonding And Monitoring Theories, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley
Joint Custody: Bonding And Monitoring Theories, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Law and the New American Family Held at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Apr. 4, 1997
Blood Ties: A Rationale For Child Visitation By Legal Strangers, John Dewitt Gregory
Blood Ties: A Rationale For Child Visitation By Legal Strangers, John Dewitt Gregory
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Images Of Motherhood: Conflicting Definitions From Welfare "Reform," Family And Criminal Law, Jane C. Murphy
Legal Images Of Motherhood: Conflicting Definitions From Welfare "Reform," Family And Criminal Law, Jane C. Murphy
All Faculty Scholarship
Part I of this Article explores the traditional idealized view of motherhood that child placement statutes and court decisions reflect. These laws include statutes and case law in custody disputes between parents and in child protection proceedings under civil and criminal laws where the dispute is between the parent and the state. Part II contrasts the legal construct of motherhood that child placement laws embody with the legal image of mothers in child support and welfare law.
Part III examines the impact of these conflicting images of motherhood on a particular group of mothers -- battered women. Battered women illuminate …
Kentucky Law Survey: Family Law, Louise Everett Graham
Kentucky Law Survey: Family Law, Louise Everett Graham
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Self-Incrimination, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: In Re Gladys H.
Self-Incrimination, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: In Re Gladys H.
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Marriage As Relational Contract, Elizabeth S. Scott, Robert E. Scott
Marriage As Relational Contract, Elizabeth S. Scott, Robert E. Scott
Faculty Scholarship
The evolution of marriage from a relationship based on status to one that is regulated by contractual norms achieved a milestone of sorts recently with the enactment of the Louisiana Covenant Marriage Act. Under this statute, couples entering marriage can choose to have the termination of their relationship regulated under conventional no-fault divorce rules, or they can voluntarily undertake a greater commitment to their marriage. For couples who select covenant marriage, either party can terminate the relationship on fault grounds, but unilateral termination of the marriage is available only after a substantial waiting period. The principal impact of the statute …
Lesbian Divorce: A Commentary On The Legal Issues, David L. Chambers
Lesbian Divorce: A Commentary On The Legal Issues, David L. Chambers
Articles
Lesbian couples who break up will find themselves in an awkward position under the law for two separable but related reasons. The first is that, because they were unmarried, they are subjected by the law to much the same uneven and ambivalent treatment to which unmarried heterosexual couples are subjected. The second, of course, is that they are gay or lesbian and thus regarded with special disfavor even in some states that have become more tolerant of unmarried heterosexual relationships. As a law teacher who is gay and who writes about family law issues relating to gay men and lesbians, …
Comparativist Ruminations From The Bayou On Child Custody Jurisdiction: The Uccja, The Pkpa, And The Hague Convention On Child Abduction, Christopher L. Blakesley
Comparativist Ruminations From The Bayou On Child Custody Jurisdiction: The Uccja, The Pkpa, And The Hague Convention On Child Abduction, Christopher L. Blakesley
Scholarly Works
Interstate and international jurisdictional problems are often vexing. They are worse in matters of child custody. In the past, jurisdiction to obtain custody or to modify a custody decree required only presence or domicile. The United States population is transient and custody decisions are subject to modification. The volatility of child custody disputes and the tendency of parents to move to different and separate jurisdictions traditionally caused and continue to cause difficult problems for children, parents, and the legal system. Before the promulgation of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) and the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), it was …