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Frozen Embryos, Male Consent, And Masculinities, Dara E. Purvis
Frozen Embryos, Male Consent, And Masculinities, Dara E. Purvis
Indiana Law Journal
Picture two men facing the possibility of unwanted fatherhood. One man agreed to go through in vitro fertilization (IVF) with his partner, but years later has changed his mind. Despite the fact that the embryos created through IVF are his partner’s last chance to be a genetic parent, a court allows him to block her use of the embryos.
By contrast, another couple’s sexual relationship broke the law. The woman was a legal adult, and her partner was a child under the age of eighteen. Their encounter was thus statutory rape. Her crime led to pregnancy, and after she gave …
Federalism And Family Status, Courtney G. Joslin
Federalism And Family Status, Courtney G. Joslin
Indiana Law Journal
The myth of family law’s inherent localism is sticky. In the past, it was common to hear sweeping claims about the exclusively local nature of all family matters. In response to persuasive critiques, a narrower iteration of family law localism emerged. The new, refined version acknowledges the existence of some federal family law but contends that certain “core” family law matters—specifically, family status determinations—are inherently local. I call this family status localism. Proponents of family status localism rely on history, asserting that the federal government has always deferred to state family status determinations. Family status localism made its most recent …
Marital Naming/Naming Marriage: Language And Status In Family Law, Suzanne A. Kim
Marital Naming/Naming Marriage: Language And Status In Family Law, Suzanne A. Kim
Indiana Law Journal
What's in a name? Based on current family law and policy debates, the answer would seem to be: a whole lot. Today's discussion of legal prohibitions of same-sex marriage abounds with the assumption that language, in the form of names and labels, is deeply meaningful from a status perspective. Missing from this debate, however, is a careful examination of the role that names and labels play in the construction of the status category of marriage. This Article fills this gap in family law scholarship by providing an explicit account of how language plays a critical role in reflecting and reinforcing …
Contesting Gender In Popular Culture And Family Law: Middlesex And Other Transgender Tales, Susan Frelich Appleton
Contesting Gender In Popular Culture And Family Law: Middlesex And Other Transgender Tales, Susan Frelich Appleton
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Custody And Conduct: How The Law Fails Lesbian And Gay Parents And Their Children, Julie Shapiro
Custody And Conduct: How The Law Fails Lesbian And Gay Parents And Their Children, Julie Shapiro
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Unequal Protection: Poverty And Family Law, Henry H. Foster, Doris Jonas Freed
Unequal Protection: Poverty And Family Law, Henry H. Foster, Doris Jonas Freed
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Handbook Of The Law Of Persons And Domestic Relations. By Joseph W. Madden, Robert C. Brown
Handbook Of The Law Of Persons And Domestic Relations. By Joseph W. Madden, Robert C. Brown
Indiana Law Journal
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