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Policy Of Family Privacy: Uncovering The Bias In Favor Of Nuclear Families In American Consitutional Law And Policy Reform, The, Richard F. Storrow
Policy Of Family Privacy: Uncovering The Bias In Favor Of Nuclear Families In American Consitutional Law And Policy Reform, The, Richard F. Storrow
Missouri Law Review
This Article re-examines the landmark cases comprising the backbone of the family privacy doctrine and discloses, within the folds of their rhetoric of individual liberty, a policy of privacy promoting nuclear families. The re-examination of the landmark cases in Part II demonstrates that the policy of family privacy is to foster the creation and longevity of traditional, nuclear families. Part II illustrates how this policy has become more clearly articulated over time through the Court’s restrictive interpretation of fundamental rights and its recent decision in Troxel v. Granville, the much-awaited ruling on grandparental visitation rights. In Part III, this Article …
Daddy, Will You Buy Me A College Education--Children Of Divorce And The Constitutional Implications Of Noncustodial Parents Providing For Higher Education, Lindsay E. Cohen
Daddy, Will You Buy Me A College Education--Children Of Divorce And The Constitutional Implications Of Noncustodial Parents Providing For Higher Education, Lindsay E. Cohen
Missouri Law Review
It is not surprising that in an age when obtaining a college education has become increasingly popular and necessary, litigation involving the responsibility of parents to pay for or contribute to the costs of their child’s college education has also increased. This Note discusses the controversial issues of whether a parent has such an obligation and whether this obligation extends to noncustodial divorced parents. The results of much of the litigation throughout the United States on this topic vary greatly depending on the facts and circumstances of each case. In order to fully comprehend the current litigation involving noncustodial divorced …