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Family And Juvenile Law, Robert E. Shepherd Jr. Nov 2006

Family And Juvenile Law, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Love Doesn't Pay: The Fiction Of Marriage Rights In The Workplace, James A. Sonne Mar 2006

Love Doesn't Pay: The Fiction Of Marriage Rights In The Workplace, James A. Sonne

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Community Plans To Address Domestic Violence: An Overview Of Domestic Violence Within The Context Of Family And Community Violence, Rhonda Vickery Impink Jan 2006

Community Plans To Address Domestic Violence: An Overview Of Domestic Violence Within The Context Of Family And Community Violence, Rhonda Vickery Impink

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

The purpose of this article is to review the various conceptual components of the issue of domestic violence by first explicating the numerous challenges to understanding the complexity of this issue. The societal costs from domestic violence within the broader purview of sexual assault, family violence and other violence in the community are described, as well as the challenges of developing community collaboration initiatives to comprehensively address family violence. Highlights are presented from a process evaluation from one community's efforts to develop a community plan for a comprehensive and collaborative family violence approach that encompasses governmental, for-profit and nonprofit sectors. …


Community Plans To Address Domestic Violence: An Overview Of Domestic Violence Within The Context Of Family And Community Violence, Rhonda Vickery Impink Jan 2006

Community Plans To Address Domestic Violence: An Overview Of Domestic Violence Within The Context Of Family And Community Violence, Rhonda Vickery Impink

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

The purpose of this article is to review the various conceptual components of the issue of domestic violence by first explicating the numerous challenges to understanding the complexity of this issue. The societal costs from domestic violence within the broader purview of sexual assault, family violence and other violence in the community are described, as well as the challenges of developing community collaboration initiatives to comprehensively address family violence. Highlights are presented from a process evaluation from one community's efforts to develop a community plan for a comprehensive and collaborative family violence approach that encompasses governmental, for-profit and nonprofit sectors. …


Undeserving Heirs?--The Case Of The "Terminated" Parent, Richard Lewis Brown Jan 2006

Undeserving Heirs?--The Case Of The "Terminated" Parent, Richard Lewis Brown

University of Richmond Law Review

Every state has an intestate succession statute that prescribes how the property of those who die without a will should be distributed. Every state also by statute authorizes the government to intervene in the parent-child relationship in the most draconian manner possible by involuntarily terminating parental rights. This article explores how the law functions at the intersection of these two statutory schemes-the inheritance regime, as expressed through intestate succession statutes, and the child welfare regime, as expressed through termination of parental rights statutes ("TPR statutes").