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Family Law—Relocation Disputes—From Parent To Paycheck: The Demotion Of The Noncustodial Parent With The Creation Of The Custodial Parent's Presumptive Right To Relocate. Hollandsworth V. Knyzewski, 353 Ark. 470, 109 S.W.3d 653 (2003)., Christopher P. Carrington

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Supreme Court’S Family Law Doctrine Revisited: Insights From Social Science On Family Structures And Kinship Change In The United States, C. Quince Hopkins

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Debts, Divorce And Disarray In Bankruptcy, Margaret M. Mahoney

ExpressO

The article addresses a point of intersection between federal bankruptcy law and state family law. Specifically, I deal with the various issues that arise when a former spouse to whom pre-existing marital debts were allocated at the time of divorce subsequently declares bankruptcy. A review of the legal literature reveals very little attention paid to the rights of the third-party marital creditor, the obligated spouse, and the other former spouse as to allocated debts, when the obligated spouse declares bankruptcy. While there is a significant body of work dealing generally with the treatment of divorce-related debts in bankruptcy, none of …

Still Part Of The Clan: Representing Elders In The Family Law Practice, Sy Moskowitz

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Lessons From Juvenile Justice History In The United States, Douglas E. Abrams

Faculty Publications

Properly understood, “juvenile justice” encompasses all four primary categories of juvenile court jurisdiction - - abuse and neglect, adoption, status offenses and delinquency. I will concentrate today on delinquency - - what states have done with * children found to have committed acts that would be crimes if committed by adults.

Still Part Of The Clan: Representing Elders In The Family Law Practice, Sy Moskowitz

Seymour H. Moskowitz

No abstract provided.

Modernizing Muslim Family Law: The Case Of Egypt, Lama Abu-Odeh

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

he Author discusses the dynamics of family law reforms in modern Egypt as an instance of similar dynamics of reforms in other Muslim countries. The forces that push for reforms as well as those that try to limit them are also introduced.

The Author begins by describing the historical legal background shared by the vast majority of Muslim countries, including Egypt. An account of the general evolution of Islamic law-from a dominant system existing within an Islamic state to a subordinate system existing within an overall secularized legal system characterized by legal borrowing from European codes-is given. Islamic law has …

Embracing Tradition: Pluralism In American Family Law, Ann Laquer Estin

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Socioeconomics In Teaching Family Law, Margaret F. Brinig

Journal Articles

Applying knowledge from other social sciences makes particular sense with the law and economics of the family. Much of the behavior we see and experience within families is difficult to see or understand as economically rational, that is, narrowly self-interested. Many of the legal changes we make that appear to be rational, at least from a cost-benefit perspective, turn out to be unsatisfying or even counterproductive. Though economists tend to view motivations or "utility functions" based upon "revealed preference," extended models like that of socioeconomics go below what is revealed to measure, as best we can, people's attitudes and feelings …

Beyond Retribution And Impunity: Responding To War Crimes Of Sexual Violence, Naomi R. Cahn

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Beyond Retribution and Impunity: Responding to War Crimes of Sexual Violence articulates principles for an approach to gender-based violence during conflict and post-conflict that operates within three different meanings of justice: criminal/civil justice, restorative justice, and what I define as social services justice. The article argues that responses to sexual violence must integrate legal and nonlegal, national, international, and local approaches, and must respond to both short and longer-term needs. It focuses on victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during what has been called the First World War in Africa, which occurred from 1996-2003.

Joseph …

"Well-Behaved Women Don't Make History": Rethinking English Family, Law, And History, Danaya C. Wright

UF Law Faculty Publications

In 1857 Parliament finally succumbed to public and political pressure and passed a bill creating a domestic relations court: the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. This new court for the first time in common-law history, combined the following jurisdictions: the ecclesiastical court's jurisdiction over marital validity and separation; the Chancery court's jurisdiction over child custody and equitable estates; the common-law court's jurisdiction over property; and Parliament's jurisdiction over divorce and marital settlements. Wives were given the legal right to seek a divorce or judicial separation in a court of law, receive custody of the children of the marriage, and …

Predatory Paternity Establishment: A Critical Analysis Of The Acknowledgment Of Paternity Process In Texas., Anne Greenwood

St. Mary's Law Journal

Child support programs across the nation are struggling to achieve even meager recovery of the financial support children need from their parents. Obtaining child support payments from men who are not fathers and who unknowingly signed their rights away is not a sound long-term policy. States must ensure that children are supported and their custodial mothers receive assistance from non-custodial fathers. Logically, the law should only compel a man to support a child he fathered. If a man chooses to assume not only the financial obligation but also the relationship which belongs to the biological father; then such agreement must …

Survey Of Developments In Indiana Family, Paula Schaefer

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Modernizing Muslim Family Law: The Case Of Egypt, Lama Abu-Odeh

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Author discusses the dynamics of family law reforms in modern Egypt as an instance of similar dynamics of reforms in other Muslim countries. The forces that push for reforms as well as those that try to limit them are also introduced. The Author begins by describing the historical legal background shared by the vast majority of Muslim countries, including Egypt. An account of the general evolution of Islamic law-from a dominant system existing within an Islamic state to a subordinate system existing within an overall secularized legal system characterized by legal borrowing from European codes-is given. Islamic law has …

Understanding Family Law In Context: The Court Observation Assignment, Jane C. Murphy

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

2004 Cardozo Life (Winter), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Life

Table of Contents:

Around Campus, page 3

Faculty Briefs, page 14

An Interview with Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel, page 22

It’s Not Your Father’s Legal Writing Program, page 27

Altruism, Ingenuity, Practicality: Traits Shared by Family Law Specialists, page 29

Alumni News & Notes, page 37

Monrad Paulsen: A Last Word, page 52