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Inheritance Equity: Reforming The Inheritance Penalties Facing Children In Non-Traditional Families, Danaya C. Wright
Inheritance Equity: Reforming The Inheritance Penalties Facing Children In Non-Traditional Families, Danaya C. Wright
Danaya C. Wright
This Article examines how more than 50% of children living today may be disadvantaged by 1950s era inheritance laws that privilege and protect only those children living in nuclear families with their biological parents. Because so many children today are living in blended families — single-parent families, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ) families, or are living with relatives — their right to inherit from the persons who function as their parents are severely limited by most state probate codes, even though they would likely be entitled to child support under the parent-child definitions of most of those states' …
Untying The Knot: An Analysis Of The English Divorce And Matrimonial Causes Court Records, 1858-1866, Danaya C. Wright
Untying The Knot: An Analysis Of The English Divorce And Matrimonial Causes Court Records, 1858-1866, Danaya C. Wright
Danaya C. Wright
Historians of Anglo-American family law consider 1857 as a turning point in the development of modern family law and the first big step in the breakdown of coverture and the recognition of women's legal rights. In 1857, The United Kingdom Parliament ("Parliament") created a new civil court to handle all divorce and matrimonial causes, removing the jurisdiction of: the ecclesiastical courts over marital validity; the Chancery over custody of children and separate estates; the royal courts over marital property; and Parliament over full divorce. The new Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Court, a wing of the admiralty and probate courts, would …
Commentary On Marriage Grants: Article Iii & Same-Sex Marriage, Neal Devins, Tara Leigh Grove
Commentary On Marriage Grants: Article Iii & Same-Sex Marriage, Neal Devins, Tara Leigh Grove
Tara L. Grove
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Dilemmas: Defense Of Marriage Act (Doma), Neal Devins, Tara Leigh Grove
Constitutional Dilemmas: Defense Of Marriage Act (Doma), Neal Devins, Tara Leigh Grove
Tara L. Grove
No abstract provided.
Whatever Your Thoughts On Marriage, Gay Divorce Is A Concern, Nathan B. Oman
Whatever Your Thoughts On Marriage, Gay Divorce Is A Concern, Nathan B. Oman
Nathan B. Oman
No abstract provided.
Burke Triumphs Over Jefferson In New York Same-Sex Marriage Decision, Nathan B. Oman
Burke Triumphs Over Jefferson In New York Same-Sex Marriage Decision, Nathan B. Oman
Nathan B. Oman
No abstract provided.
Bargaining In The Shadow Of God's Law: Islamic Mahr Contracts And The Perils Of Legal Specialization, Nathan B. Oman
Bargaining In The Shadow Of God's Law: Islamic Mahr Contracts And The Perils Of Legal Specialization, Nathan B. Oman
Nathan B. Oman
No abstract provided.
For Richer Or Poorer, 'Til Decree Do Us Part - A Spouse's Entitlement To Division Of Pension Funds And Professional Degrees As Marital Property, Linda A. Malone
For Richer Or Poorer, 'Til Decree Do Us Part - A Spouse's Entitlement To Division Of Pension Funds And Professional Degrees As Marital Property, Linda A. Malone
Linda A. Malone
No abstract provided.
On Children And Dual Nationality: Sabet And The Islamic Republic Of Iran, Nancy Amoury Combs
On Children And Dual Nationality: Sabet And The Islamic Republic Of Iran, Nancy Amoury Combs
Nancy Combs
The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal's recent decision in Sabet and The Islamic Republic of Iran sheds new light on difficult issues concerning the dual nationality of minors. In particular, the case was the first in which the Tribunal determined minor dual national claimants to have a dominant and effective nationality different from that of either of their parents. Further, the Tribunal broke new ground in its analysis of 'the caveat,' an equitable doctrine that can bar the claims of dual nationals. This article applauds the Tribunal's advances in its caveat jurisprudence and develops a new approach that would further those …
Which Side Are You On?, James G. Dwyer
Victory By Litigation Would Be Hollow: Front Burner, James G. Dwyer
Victory By Litigation Would Be Hollow: Front Burner, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Employment Division V. Smith For Family Law, James G. Dwyer
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Employment Division V. Smith For Family Law, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
The Ever-Shrinking Case For A Constitutional Right To Same-Sex Marriage, James G. Dwyer
The Ever-Shrinking Case For A Constitutional Right To Same-Sex Marriage, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
The Child Protection Pretense: States' Continued Consignment Of Newborn Babies To Unfit Parents, James G. Dwyer
The Child Protection Pretense: States' Continued Consignment Of Newborn Babies To Unfit Parents, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
The Children We Abandon: Religious Exemptions To Child Welfare And Education Law As Denials Of Equal Protection To Children Of Religious Objectors, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
The story of children who die because their parents, in observance of their own religious principles, withhold conventional medical treatment from them is a familiar one. In this Article, James G. Dwyer shows that the phenomenon of parents denying secular benefits to their children for religious reasons goes far beyond these few highly publicized cases, extending into the realm of education as well as medical care. Moreover, Dr. Dwyer shows that the federal and state governments endorse this practice by statutorily exempting 'religious objector' parents from otherwise generally applicable compulsory child care and education laws. He argues that courts addressing …
Setting Standards For Parenting - By What Right?, James G. Dwyer
Setting Standards For Parenting - By What Right?, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
Mental health professionals, like other professionals involved in family
matters, feel constrained when advocating for the interests of children by the belief
that parents are entitled to custody and control of their children's lives, regardless of
what others may think of their parenting behavior, absent severe harm to the children.
This belief is morally untenable, and the legal doctrine of parental rights that is its
concrete embodiment is inconsistent with other well-established legal principles and
should be abandoned. Children alone should have legal rights in connection with their
upbringing, and those rights should include an entitlement to much higher standards …
Spiritual Treatment Exemptions To Child Medical Neglect Laws: What We Outsiders Should Think, James G. Dwyer
Spiritual Treatment Exemptions To Child Medical Neglect Laws: What We Outsiders Should Think, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Parents' Self-Determination And Children's Custody: A New Analytical Framework For State Structuring Of Children's Family Life, James G. Dwyer
Parents' Self-Determination And Children's Custody: A New Analytical Framework For State Structuring Of Children's Family Life, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Same-Sex Cynicism And The Self-Defeating Pursuit Of Social Acceptance Through Litigation, James G. Dwyer
Same-Sex Cynicism And The Self-Defeating Pursuit Of Social Acceptance Through Litigation, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Parents' Religion And Children's Welfare: Debunking The Doctrine Of Parents' Rights, James G. Dwyer
Parents' Religion And Children's Welfare: Debunking The Doctrine Of Parents' Rights, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
The scope, weight, and assignment of parental rights have been the focus of much debate among legal commentators. These commentators generally have assumed that parents should have some rights in connection with the raising of their children. Rarely have commentators offered justifications for attributing rights to persons as parents, and when they have done so they have failed to subject those justifications to close scrutiny. This Article takes the novel approach of challenging parental rights in their entirety. The author explores the fundamental questions of what it means to say that individuals have rights as parents, and whether it is …
Parental Entitlement And Corporal Punishment, James G. Dwyer
Parental Entitlement And Corporal Punishment, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
No Place For Children: Addressing Urban Blight And Its Impact On Children Through Child Protection Law, Domestic Relations Law, And "Adult-Only" Residential Zoning, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Misused Concepts And Misguided Questions: Fundamental Confusions In Family Law Debates, James G. Dwyer
Misused Concepts And Misguided Questions: Fundamental Confusions In Family Law Debates, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Inter-Country Adoption And The Special Rights Fallacy, James G. Dwyer
Inter-Country Adoption And The Special Rights Fallacy, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Jailing Black Babies, James G. Dwyer
First Parents: Reconceptualizing Newborn Adoption, James G. Dwyer
First Parents: Reconceptualizing Newborn Adoption, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Children’S Welfare And The State’S Fiduciary Responsibility, James G. Dwyer
Children’S Welfare And The State’S Fiduciary Responsibility, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Diagnosing Liberal Resistance To Needed Child Welfare Reforms, James G. Dwyer
Diagnosing Liberal Resistance To Needed Child Welfare Reforms, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
No abstract provided.
Equality Between Adults And Children: Its Meaning, Implications, And Opposition, James G. Dwyer
Equality Between Adults And Children: Its Meaning, Implications, And Opposition, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
Family law scholars have devoted much attention to equality among groups of adults and some attention to equality between groups of children. There has been little exploration, however, of the notion of equality between adults and children. In this Article, I first explain what it means at a basic, theoretical level to speak of such equality. I then identify some practical implications. Finally, I consider why there is great resistance to many practical implications of children's equality, even among those who would consider themselves advocates for child welfare.
Constitutional Birthright: The State, Parentage, And The Rights Of Newborn Persons, James G. Dwyer
Constitutional Birthright: The State, Parentage, And The Rights Of Newborn Persons, James G. Dwyer
James G. Dwyer
State parentage laws, dictating who a newborn child's first legal parents will be, have been the subject of constitutional challenges in several U.S. Supreme Court and many lower court decisions. All of those decisions, however, have focused on constitutional rights of adults (especially unwed biological fathers) who wish to become, or to avoid becoming, legal parents. Neither courts nor legal scholars have considered whether the children have any constitutional rights that constrain legislatures and courts in deciding which adults will be their legal parents. If a state enacted a parentage law that said, for example, that any child born to …