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Are Premarital Agreements Really Unfair?: An Empirical Study, Elizabeth Carter
Are Premarital Agreements Really Unfair?: An Empirical Study, Elizabeth Carter
Journal Articles
The article focuses on unfair treatment of premarital agreements and data of the people who entered into premarital agreements including age at marriage, race, and political affiliation. It mentions substance of the premarital agreements including how the agreements divide property and whether the agreements waive spousal support. It also mentions premarital agreements involve the waiver of property rights.
Reviving Proxy Marriage, Andrea B. Carroll
Reviving Proxy Marriage, Andrea B. Carroll
Journal Articles
Marriage is merely a contract. It creates myriad rights and responsibilities - essentially conferring a status - but the American states recognize without exception that the parties’ relationship is at base nothing more than a contractual one. Still, modern society has elevated the marriage contract above all others. This distinction has overwhelmingly focused on the very personal nature of the marital relationship, a feature nonexistent in the arms-length contractual dealings with which we are accustomed to working when applying contract law. As a result, marriage is subject to a number of requirements, even at the level of contractual formation, which …