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Full-Text Articles in Family Law
The Islamic Family Endowment (Waqf), David S. Powers
The Islamic Family Endowment (Waqf), David S. Powers
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
As part of the larger Islamic inheritance system, endowment law accorded Muslim proprietors a legal means to circumvent the effects of the Islamic inheritance rules by allocating usufruct rights to specified people in specified amounts and to regulate the transmission of those rights from one generation of beneficiaries to the next. Over time, the institution appears to have contributed to the physical integrity of both urban and rural property. Whether or not it also contributed to the economic viability of the local economy is a subject that deserves further investigation." At the same time, the transformation of significant segments of …
Getting Ahead With Washington's Workfirst Program: Are Battered Women Left Behind?, Wendy Davis
Getting Ahead With Washington's Workfirst Program: Are Battered Women Left Behind?, Wendy Davis
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment will suggest that although the structure of Washington's WorkFirst Act could help victims become self-sufficient, the current implementation of the Act does not adequately address the particular needs of victims. As a result, a victim's chances of achieving financial independence from either the state or her abuser are minimal. Part II of this Comment will give a brief summary of the federal guidelines under which Washington's WorkFirst Act was developed. Part III will outline the requirements of the WorkFirst Act, and in particular, the Act's provisions that address or affect domestic violence victims. Included in this section will …
Who Determines Children's Best Interests?, Michael Grossberg
Who Determines Children's Best Interests?, Michael Grossberg
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Count The Brown Faces: Where Is The "Family" In The Family Law Of Child Protective Services, Ana M. Novoa
Count The Brown Faces: Where Is The "Family" In The Family Law Of Child Protective Services, Ana M. Novoa
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Abstract forthcoming
A Mother Removed — A Child Left Behind: A Battered Immigrant's Need For A Modified Best Interest Standard, Julie Linares-Fierro
A Mother Removed — A Child Left Behind: A Battered Immigrant's Need For A Modified Best Interest Standard, Julie Linares-Fierro
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Abstract forthcoming
Suffer The Little Children: Justifying Same-Sex Marriage From The Perspective Of A Child Of The Union, Lewis A. Silverman
Suffer The Little Children: Justifying Same-Sex Marriage From The Perspective Of A Child Of The Union, Lewis A. Silverman
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Reviving The Public/Private Distinction In Feminist Theorizing Symposium On Unfinished Feminist Business, Tracy E. Higgins
Reviving The Public/Private Distinction In Feminist Theorizing Symposium On Unfinished Feminist Business, Tracy E. Higgins
Faculty Scholarship
The public/private distinction has been a target of thoroughgoing feminist critique for quite some time now. Indeed, attacking the public/private line has been one of the primary concerns (if not the primary concern) of feminist legal theorizing for over two decades. If Carole Pateman is correct, one would think that this particular problem might be assigned to the category of "finished business" by this time. In this Essay, I do argue that the critique is, in certain ways, finished business in that it is no longer particularly useful in its most common forms. More importantly, however, I suggest several ways …
How Children In Cults May Use Emancipation Laws To Free Themselves, Robin A. Boyle
How Children In Cults May Use Emancipation Laws To Free Themselves, Robin A. Boyle
Faculty Publications
The author examines how children who are born into cults or brought into them at a young age can use state emancipation laws to gain independence when they are in their mid-teens, so long as they can demonstrate criteria that their states have established. Commonly, states require a showing that the minor has achieved some level of economic self-sufficiency and can live emotionally and physically independently from his or her parents. There are some difficulties for cultic children in demonstrating these criteria, but the obstacles are not insurmountable.
The Challenge Of Substance Abuse For Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Challenge Of Substance Abuse For Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Integrating Gender Into Legal Education: Obstacles And Challenges, Leonor Vain
Integrating Gender Into Legal Education: Obstacles And Challenges, Leonor Vain
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Egging On Lesbian Maternity: The Legal Implications Of Tri-Gametic In Vitro Fertilization , Kyle C. Velte
Egging On Lesbian Maternity: The Legal Implications Of Tri-Gametic In Vitro Fertilization , Kyle C. Velte
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Count The Brown Faces: Where Is The “Family” In The Family Law Of Child Protective Services, Ana M. Novoa
Count The Brown Faces: Where Is The “Family” In The Family Law Of Child Protective Services, Ana M. Novoa
Faculty Articles
Can a system developed from intrusion into the lives of the poor be reconstituted to provide services that will nurture the quality of the lives of all children? If not, then the system should be scrapped and start over. Child Protective Services (CPS) has never recovered from its roots in distrust and discrimination against the poor and its mistaken defense of a false moral high-ground, which is perceived from the narrow focus of child-saving rather than on the legitimate and long term needs of children. The foster care system’s lack of concern for natural parents reflects centuries of a dual …
Child Support Policy: Guidelines And Goals, Marsha Garrison
Child Support Policy: Guidelines And Goals, Marsha Garrison
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Then Technological Family: What's New And What's Not, Marsha Garrison
Then Technological Family: What's New And What's Not, Marsha Garrison
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
What Place For Family Privacy?, Martha Albertson Fineman
What Place For Family Privacy?, Martha Albertson Fineman
Faculty Articles
This nuclear unit is thought to be in "crisis" because of the tendency of many marriages to dissemble and dissolve. Some people claim that society is also in a state of crisis as a result of marital instability. Many are concerned by the assembling of "deviant" and competing intimate entities claiming entitlement to the benefits and privileges previously extended to marriage." The family has become the symbolic terrain for the cultural war in which our society is increasingly mired. If one believes the family is not inherently limited to any essential or natural form, but is as contrived as any …
The Non-Contested Divorce: Pleadings And Procedures, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Stephanie L. Morgan, Mary E. Schoonover
The Non-Contested Divorce: Pleadings And Procedures, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Stephanie L. Morgan, Mary E. Schoonover
Continuing Legal Education Materials
Description of proceedings and sample pleadings in a non-contested divorce.
Redefining The State's Response To Domestic Violence: Past Victories And Future Challenges, Deborah Epstein
Redefining The State's Response To Domestic Violence: Past Victories And Future Challenges, Deborah Epstein
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
What role should the state play in the fight against domestic violence? Although most activists in the early domestic abuse movement viewed government institutions with a robust dose of suspicion, over time they began to look to the state for substantial assistance. During this period-the late sixties and seventies-increased hope for a positive governmental role appeared to be well-founded. The civil rights, feminist, and labor movements had pushed the federal government into expanding civil liberty guarantees and economic protections. Laws were enacted prohibiting sex- and race-based discrimination, health care got a strong boost through the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, …
When Equal Opportunity Meets Freedom Of Expression: Student-On-Student Sexual Harassment And The First Amendment In School, Kay P. Kindred
When Equal Opportunity Meets Freedom Of Expression: Student-On-Student Sexual Harassment And The First Amendment In School, Kay P. Kindred
Scholarly Works
Sexual harassment can take a variety of forms. It can be verbal, nonverbal or physical. Often it takes the form of hateful and harassing speech. In the AAUW Survey, 76% of the girls and 56 % of the boys surveyed had been the target of sexual comments, jokes, gestures or looks. Even when the harassment includes physical contact of some nature, it is typically accompanied or preceded by verbal harassment. While school officials and parents look for solutions to these problems, courts are struggling with the questions as well. In recent years, the problem of student-on-student sexual harassment has found …
Child Care In The Postwelfare Reform Era: Analysis And Strategies For Advocates, Rebecca L. Scharf, Jo Ann C. Gong, Alice Bussiere, Jennifer Light, Marc Cohan, Sherry Leiwant
Child Care In The Postwelfare Reform Era: Analysis And Strategies For Advocates, Rebecca L. Scharf, Jo Ann C. Gong, Alice Bussiere, Jennifer Light, Marc Cohan, Sherry Leiwant
Scholarly Works
Adequate child care is essential to enable poor women to support their families with work outside the home. In 1994 the U.S. General Accounting Office found that offering a child care subsidy to poor mothers increased the likelihood by 15 percent that the mothers would work. An Illinois study found that 20 percent of parents who left public assistance for work returned to assistance because of child care problems. In Minnesota a study found that lack of child care caused 14 percent of parents awaiting child care subsidies to leave their jobs and rely on public assistance. These studies confirm …
Cloning And The Preservation Of Family Integrity, David Orentlicher
Cloning And The Preservation Of Family Integrity, David Orentlicher
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Is There Justice In Children's Rights?: The Critique Of Federal Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
Is There Justice In Children's Rights?: The Critique Of Federal Family Preservation Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Poverty, Race, And New Directions In Child Welfare Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
Poverty, Race, And New Directions In Child Welfare Policy, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Child Care And Federal Tax Policy (Symposium: Women, Equity And Federal Tax Policy: Open Questions), Ann F. Thomas
Child Care And Federal Tax Policy (Symposium: Women, Equity And Federal Tax Policy: Open Questions), Ann F. Thomas
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
A Child's Right To Physical Integrity, Suellyn Scarnecchia
A Child's Right To Physical Integrity, Suellyn Scarnecchia
Articles
As we wring our hands over increasing reports of severe child abuse and how violent many of our children have become, it might be time to reassess policies that give parents and others the license to use even the most mild forms of violence against our children.
Modern Coverture: Old Wine In Old Bottles, William P. Lapiana
Modern Coverture: Old Wine In Old Bottles, William P. Lapiana
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Becoming A Citizen: Reconstruction Era Regulation Of African American Marriages, Katherine M. Franke
Becoming A Citizen: Reconstruction Era Regulation Of African American Marriages, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
While many Black people regarded slavery as a form of social death, some nineteenth-century white policy-makers extolled the virtues of slavery as a tool to uplift the characters of Africans in America: "[Slavery in America] has been the lever by which five million human beings have been elevated from the degraded and benighted condition of savage life ... to a knowledge of their responsibilities to God and their relations to society," observed a Kentucky Congressman in 1860. These sentiments were echoed by abolitionist northern officers not three years later when the institution of marriage was lauded for its civilizing effect …
Foreword, Elizabeth S. Scott
Foreword, Elizabeth S. Scott
Faculty Scholarship
In November 1998, the interdisciplinary Center for Children, families and the Law at the University of Virginia sponsored a conference on Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice Reform. The conference brought together an extraordinary group of experts from the academic disciplines of law, criminology and psychology. Before an audience made up of researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners in the field of juvenile justice, these experts analyzed legal policy toward juvenile crime from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. The articles in this important symposium issue of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law are based on the papers …
The Nuttiness Of Divorce, Thomas W. Merrill
The Nuttiness Of Divorce, Thomas W. Merrill
Faculty Scholarship
The erratic, emotional "nuttiness" of divorce is predictable. Rest assured, however, you are not crazy. You are merely responding to the temporary emotional upheaval in your life. To help you better understand what you are experiencing, we have put together a brief explanation of the psychological stages or phases that accompany the legal process of divorce.
The Defense Of Traditional Marriage, George W. Dent
The Defense Of Traditional Marriage, George W. Dent
Faculty Publications
This article reviews the possible justifications for legal recognition of marriage and finds some, such as encouraging stable, loving relationships, unpersuasive. However, other rationales-including protecting children, socializing adults, and promoting individual happiness-are valid, and these rationales apply only to traditional marriages. Accordingly, society has strong reasons to favor traditional marriage and to deny such treatment to the unmarried and to homosexual, endogamous and bestial relationships.
Parental Rights And The Ugly Duckling, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley
Parental Rights And The Ugly Duckling, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley
Journal Articles
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" is best remembered for its moral, "To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg." Having read and thought about this story many times, we should like to suggest another, less heart-warming, interpretation. The story of the Ugly Duckling, that most resilient of cygnets, masks the tragedy of children who suffer abuse. Its message, that personal spirit will triumph when a child grows up, misrepresents the experience of many victimized children. If we wait for the child to …