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Blood Tests In Paternity Litigation, Assembly Committee On Judiciary Sep 1980

Blood Tests In Paternity Litigation, Assembly Committee On Judiciary

California Assembly

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Spruce Run News (June 1980), Spruce Run Staff Jun 1980

Spruce Run News (June 1980), Spruce Run Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Protection Of Battered Women: A Survey Of State Legislation, Lisa G. Lerman Jan 1980

Protection Of Battered Women: A Survey Of State Legislation, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

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Cultural Diversity In Custody Disputes, Frederick H. Zemans Jan 1980

Cultural Diversity In Custody Disputes, Frederick H. Zemans

All Papers

The Commentaries give us a perspective of the expectations of medieval English society and its laws with respect to child rearing and the transmission of community values. Canada has inherited the common laws' values as articulated by Blackstone and has attempted to integrate them into its very different society.

Heterogeneous and pluralistic, Canada's society contains numerous cultural groups, each of which maintain distinct and independent traditions as well as the various national and religious institutions required to support these traditions.


Casenote, Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--New York Statute Requiring Consent Of Mother, But Not Of Father, As Prerequisite To Adoption Of Illegitimate Child Violates The Fourteenth Amendment Because It Draws Gender-Based Distinction Which Bears No Substantial Relation To State Interest In Encouraging Adoption Of Illegitimate Children--Caban V. Mohammed, 441 U.S. 380 (1979), Mary F. Radford Jan 1980

Casenote, Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--New York Statute Requiring Consent Of Mother, But Not Of Father, As Prerequisite To Adoption Of Illegitimate Child Violates The Fourteenth Amendment Because It Draws Gender-Based Distinction Which Bears No Substantial Relation To State Interest In Encouraging Adoption Of Illegitimate Children--Caban V. Mohammed, 441 U.S. 380 (1979), Mary F. Radford

Faculty Publications By Year

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Liberty And Lawyers In Child Protection, Donald N. Duquette Jan 1980

Liberty And Lawyers In Child Protection, Donald N. Duquette

Book Chapters

The distinguishing feature of the juvenile or family court which sets it apart from, all other elements of the child protection system is that the court acts as arbiter of personal liberty. When society at large, through child protective services, attempts to intervene in the private life of a family on behalf of a child, the court must assure that the rights of the parents, the rights of the child, and the rights of. the society are protected and are abridged only after full and fair and objective court process. Only the court can abridge these personal rights in other …


Divorce Law Practice (Part 1), Harvey L. Zuckman Jan 1980

Divorce Law Practice (Part 1), Harvey L. Zuckman

Scholarly Articles

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The Estate Tax Marital Deduction, Harold Dubroff, Douglas A. Kahn Jan 1980

The Estate Tax Marital Deduction, Harold Dubroff, Douglas A. Kahn

Articles

The estate tax marital deduction, section 2056 of the Internal Revenue Code, was enacted in 1948, along with the split-income provisions of the income tax law and the marital deduction and split-gift provisions of the gift tax law. The purpose was to give married residents of common law states approximately the same federal tax advantages that were available to married residents of community property states. Ordinarily, upon the death of a married resident of a community property state, only one-half of the community property is taxed in the decedent's estate. Section 2056 achieves approximately the same result for married residents …