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Property Distribution Physics: The Talisman Of Time And Middle Class Law, Margaret F. Brinig Oct 2013

Property Distribution Physics: The Talisman Of Time And Middle Class Law, Margaret F. Brinig

Margaret F Brinig

No abstract provided.


Enslavement In The Twentieth Century: The Right Of Parents To Retain Their Childrens' Earnings, Jules D. Barnett, Daniel K. Spradlin May 2013

Enslavement In The Twentieth Century: The Right Of Parents To Retain Their Childrens' Earnings, Jules D. Barnett, Daniel K. Spradlin

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Home With Dignity: Domestic Violence And Property Rights, Margaret Johnson Feb 2013

A Home With Dignity: Domestic Violence And Property Rights, Margaret Johnson

Margaret E Johnson

This Article argues that the legal system should do more to address intimate partner violence and each party’s need for a home for several reasons. First, domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness and family homelessness. Second, the struggle over rights to a shared home can increase the violence to which the woman is subjected. And third, a woman who decides that continuing to share a home with the person who abused her receives little or no system support, despite the evidence that this decision could most effectively reduce the violence. The legal system’s current failings result from its …


An Incomplete Revolution: Feminists And The Legacy Of Marital-Property Reform, Mary Ziegler Jan 2013

An Incomplete Revolution: Feminists And The Legacy Of Marital-Property Reform, Mary Ziegler

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

As this Article shows, the conventional historical narrative of the divorce revolution is not so much incorrect as incomplete. Histories of the divorce revolution have focused disproportionately on the introduction of no-fault rules and have correctly concluded that women's groups did not play a central role in the introduction of such laws. However, work on divorce law has not adequately addressed the history of marital-property reform or engaged with scholarship on the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment to the federal Constitution. Putting these two bodies of work in dialogue with one another, the Article provides the first comprehensive history …