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On The Why Of Same-Sex Marriage In Cuba, Libby Adler

FIU Law Review

Cuba is expected to revise its family code soon and the legal availability of marriage to a person of the same sex will be among the anticipated revisions. This essay pushes past the assumption that same-sex marriage operates as an obvious item along any nation’s progressive path, or a universally desirable and sensible legal advance, and inquires as to the why. In a country that is markedly less religious than its neighbors, has a low marriage rate accompanied by a comparatively high divorce rate, and socializes resources such as health care such that they do not depend on marital ties, …

A Game Theory View Of Family Law: Planning For A 500% Family Tax, Steven J. Willis

FIU Law Review

Divorces involve money, which can prompt fierce legal battles. These include family obligations for child support, alimony, and property division. Small income changes can have huge consequences. For example, a $1,000 income increase can result in $5,000 of increased family obligations. A $10,000 increase can produce $50,000 of obligations. Or a $10,000 decrease can result in $50,000 of reduced obligations.

Preserving Procreative Potential With A Smart Prenuptial Agreement, Lynda Wray Black, Chelsea E. Caldwell

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Bastard By Any Other Name: A Requiem For The End Of Disproportionate Treatment Toward Out Of Wedlock Children In Florida’S Probate System, Gregg Strock

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Political Economy And Legal Regulation Of Transnational Commercial Surrogate, Cyra Akila Choudhury

Faculty Publications

This Article breaks new ground by closely reading the emerging ethnographic accounts of surrogacy to establish that current feminist frames are incomplete. It incorporates the political economy of surrogacy, the economic relationship of surrogacy to the Indian state, and the political economy of surrogates’ families, which have all been missing from the current dialogue. The Article concludes that the benefits of surrogate labor outweigh its disadvantages and develops a new framework — of surrogacy as labor — that will, for the first time, protect the surrogate as worker.Surrogacy, as a fairly open regulatory field, provides feminists with a unique opportunity …

Between Tradition And Progress: A Comparative Perspective On Polygamy In The United Satates And India, Cyra Akila Choudhury

Faculty Publications

Both the United States and India have had longstanding experiences with polygamy and its regulation. In the United States, the dominant Protestant majority has sought to abolish Mormon practices of polygamy through criminalization. Moreover, the public policy exception has been used to deny recognition of plural marriages conducted legally elsewhere. India’s approach to polygamy regulation and criminalization has been both similar to and different from that of the United States. With a sizable Muslim minority and a legal framework that recognizes religious law as family law, India recognizes polygamy in the Muslim minority community. However, it has criminalized it in …

Exporting Subjects: Globalizing Family Law Progress Through International Human Rights, Cyra Akila Choudhury

Faculty Publications

This article examines the global export of domestic U.S. legal projects and strategies in the realm of family law and gender justice to South Asia. While such projects have undoubtedly achieved substantial gains for women in the U.S., there have also been costs. At a remove of two decades, scholars have now begun to theorize those costs and argue that feminism needs to reconsider its commitments to particular projects that have been held central to women’s emancipation. Yet much of these critiques have not reached the transnational women’s movements that are led by U.S. feminist activists and scholars. Relying on …

Orwell’S Vision: Video And The Future Of Civil Rights Enforcement, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

(Mis)Appropriated Liberty: Identity, Gender Justice And Muslim Personal Law Reform In India, Cyra Akila Choudhury

Faculty Publications

This article argues that in order to emancipate Indian-Muslim women from an outdated family legal code, their position at the intersection of gender and a minority religion must be taken seriously. Proposals for reform that have been suggested by Western liberal, secular feminists that ignore the importance of women's religious affiliation fail to do this. Moreover, by making assumptions about the strength of secularism in India, the willingness of the state to enact legal reforms driven by gender concerns, and by failing to acknowledge the limits of formal rights alone in changing norms, these scholars do not account for the …

Irrational Exuberance For Babies: The Taste For Heterosexuality And Its Conspicuous Reproduction, Jose M. Gabilondo

Faculty Publications

This article targets a flying buttress of normative heterosexuality: its physical reproduction via procreation and its symbolic propagation through parents' pre-natal preferences for heterosexuality in future children. While the parental "taste for heterosexuality" is often asserted for the sake of future children themselves, this justification overlooks the role of parental self-interest, including anticipated social gains to parents from heterosexuality in children. Hence the taste sets the stage both for sexual orientation-based abuse of future children and the devaluation of sexual minority adults. Courts too have a taste for heterosexuality, shown here in two state court cases denying gays and lesbians …

A Uniform Domestic Partnership Act: Marrying Business Partnership And Family Law, Jennifer Ann Drobac, Antony Page

Faculty Publications

For decades, Americans have argued about who may marry and what marriage actually means in legal, religious, and philosophical terms. For almost as long, two problems - the rising divorce rate and the poverty of some "divorced" children and their custodians - have fed concerns about the viability of marriage as an institution that promotes domestic stability and economic security. This Article explores the notion that domestic partnership based upon business partnership law would better serve more couples, their families, and society as a whole. It proposes a Uniform Domestic Partnership Act, loosely modeled after the UPA, as a substitute …

Unión Extramatrimonial, Eduardo Rafael Núñez Y Núñez

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

No abstract provided.

Capacidad Legal De La Mujer, José Del Valle Moré

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

No abstract provided.

El Matrimonio Anómalo (Por Equiparación), Treinta Años Después (1940-1970), Eduardo Le Riverend Brusone

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Sobretiro de la Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de México. Tomo XXI. Enero-Junio, 1971. Núm. 81-82.

Raíz Psicológica Y Sentido Ético Del Matrimonio, Emilio Menéndez

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Conferencia leída en el Lyceum de La Habana el día ocho de Junio de 1938.

Ponencia Presentada Al Consejo De Estado, Mario Lamar Y Presas

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Acompañando un Proyecto de decreto - Ley relativo a los hijos ilegitimos.

Uniones Libres O Concubinarias, Josê Guerra Lopez

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

No abstract provided.

Tema Propuesto Para Las Oposiciones Al Premio De Derecho Civil, Miguel A. Gavilondo Y Lerena

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Primer Curso, efectuadas en Julio 3 de 1929.

Contents: 1. La emancipación--2. Emancipación por concesión y por matrimonio--3. Limitaciones de los emancipados--4. ¿Deben subsistir las limitaciones del articulo 317 del Codigo Civil?--5. Criterio de los codigos aleman y suizo, sobre los emancipados.

Comentarios A La Ley Del Divorcio Con Disolución Del Vínculo Matrimonial De 29 De Julio De 1918, Isidoro Corzo

Cuban Law

At head of title: Legislación Cubana.

Índice. - Del divorcio con disolución del vinculo. - De la acción de divorcio. - Del nuevo matrimonio. - De la separación de bienes. - Del cuidado de los hijos.- Del procedimiento para el divorcio en general. - Del procedimiento especial para el divorcio por mutuo disenso. - Criterio de transición. Apéndice: De la aplicación de la Ley de Divorcio a los extranjeros. Repertorio Alfabético.

Estudio Sobre El Consejo De Familia Y La Conveniencia De Su Supresión, Santiago R. Gutiérrez De Celis

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

No abstract provided.