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Financial Exploitation Statutes’ Impact On Domestic Relations Practice, Carolyn L. Dessin

Akron Law Faculty Publications

As baby boomers age, we seem to be thinking more and more about the concerns and needs of the older American. From retirement communities that sprout like weeds to ubiquitous Viagra ads, the national attention increasingly seems focussed on the aging population.

One outgrowth of this increased attention to elder issues is a growing awareness of elder abuse. This problem went virtually unnoticed before 1975, when various organizations began studying it. Now, discussions about elder abuse take place with increasing frequency, and one hears frequent calls for action to prevent or remedy the problem. Although there are few attempts to …

Towards Equalization Of The Personal Retirement Savings Prerogatives Of Small Business Owners And Their Employees, Richard Kovach

Akron Law Faculty Publications

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Incorporating The Partnership Theory Of Marriage Into Elective-Share Law: The Approximation System Of The Uniform Probate Code And The Deferred-Community-Property Alternative, Alan Newman

Akron Law Faculty Publications

Incorporating the Partnership Theory of Marriage into Elective-Share Law: The Approximation System of the Uniform Probate Code and the Deferred-Community-Property Alternative

With respect to marital property rights, the contemporary view of marriage is that it is an economic partnership. Spouses are viewed as equal partners with respect to property acquired during the marriage from either of their efforts, but as having no claim to property the other spouse brought to the marriage, or received by gift or inheritance during the marriage. The widespread acceptance of this theory, which has long been an underlying principle of the community-property system, is evidenced …

Education And The Constitution: Shaping Each Other And The Next Century, Elizabeth Reilly

Con Law Center Articles and Publications

Thinking about the interaction between the Constitution and education reveals that they are deeply interconnected, at profound levels of interdependence and complexity. Those connections are often strikingly visible, but are sometimes quite subtle.

A fundamental interdependence was formed with the decision to formulate our governmental structure as a democratic republic. The Constitution created the necessity for adequate public education to prepare the citizenry to exercise the role of self-government. An educated voting public underpins a successful democratic structure, as was explicitly recognized in Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Court acknowledged:

the importance of education to our democratic …