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Adjudicating The Intersection Of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, And Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages And Competing Legal Domains, Sara L. Friedman

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Cross-border marriages and other forms of family reunification dominate officially recognized migratory flows around the world today, and they offer the most widely recognized path to naturalized citizenship in destination countries. At the same time, however, transnational marriages may also rest on shaky foundations precisely because immigrant spouses depend on their citizen partner for legal status. When marriages fail due to domestic violence, they expose the incompatibility of different legal domains organized around domestic violence prevention and immigration regulation. This Article examines the legal conflicts that emerged in response to a recent case in Taiwan involving an immigrant wife from …

State Power, Religion, And Women's Rights: A Comparative Analysis Of Family Law, Mala Htun, S. Laurel Weldon

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Examining cross-national variation in family law, we find that many countries have reformed to promote sex equality. Yet a significant group retains older laws that discriminate against women. These variations reflect the diverse institutional legacies of these societies, conforming closely-but not entirely-to inherited legal traditions: civil law, common law, and postsocialist countries are the most egalitarian, while countries applying religious law are the least. Yet change is possible, even in unlikely contexts. Political conjunctures that disarm religious, nationalist, and fundamentalist opponents can open windows of opportunity for liberalizing reform.

Human Rights and Legal Systems Across the Global South, Symposium, Indiana …

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 …

Reaffirming No-Fault Divorce: Supplementing Formal Equality With Substantive Change, Erin R. Melnick

Indiana Law Journal

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An Interdisciplinary Approach To Family Law Jurisprudence: Application Of An Ecological And Therapeutic Perspective, Barbara A. Babb

Indiana Law Journal

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Balancing Acts: Crisis, Change, And Continuity In American Family Law, 1890-1990, Michael Grossberg

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Crossing Boundaries: Nineteenth-Century Domestic Relations Law And The Merger Of Family And Legal History, Michael Grossberg

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This essay argues for the need to study the legal history of the American family. It does so by combining a critique of secondary literature in family and legal history with examples from nineteenth-century domestic relations law. These examples, drawn from family law doctrines on seduction under the cover of a marriage promise, runaway marriages, and bastardy, are used to indicate the benefits of adding a sociocultural dimension to legal history and legal and institutional dimensions to family history. Three main themes in the history of nineteenth-century domestic relations law are developed to make these points: the law's particular fabric …

The Relevance Of Premarital Cohabitation To Property Division Awards In Divorce Proceedings: An Evaluation Of Present Trends And A Proposal For Legislative Reform, Barbara Freedman Wand

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Guarding The Altar: Physiological Restrictions And The Rise Of State Intervention In Matrimony, Michael Grossberg

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Unequal Protection: Poverty And Family Law, Henry H. Foster, Doris Jonas Freed

Indiana Law Journal

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Effect Of Heart Baln Acts On Infant's Right To Sue For Enticement Of His Parent

Indiana Law Journal

Recent Cases: Domestic Relations

Book Review. Vernier, C. G., American Family Laws, Vols. 3 And 4, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Action For Alienation Of Affections, Robert C. Brown

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. Vernier, C. G., American Family Law, Vol. 1, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Effect Of Foreign Divorce Upon Dower And Similar Property Interests, Fowler Vincent Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. Richmond, M. E. And F. S. Hall, Marriage And The State And May, G., Marriage Laws And Decisions In The United States, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. Madden, J. W., Cases On Domestic Relations And Mccurdy, W. E., Cases On The Law Of Persons And Domestic Relations, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. Cases On Domestic Relations By Joseph Warren Madden, Robert C. Brown

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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