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Inequality In Marital Liabilities: The Need For Equal Protection When Modifying The Necessaries Doctrine, Debra S. Betteridge
Inequality In Marital Liabilities: The Need For Equal Protection When Modifying The Necessaries Doctrine, Debra S. Betteridge
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note contends that the "primary/secondary" modification is unconstitutional because it ignores the husband's equal protection rights while unlawfully stigmatizing women as dependent. Part I discusses how the growing independence of women has led courts to modify the common law doctrine. Part II develops the test that the Supreme Court would apply in judging the constitutionality of any modification of the doctrine. Part III applies this test to the "primary/secondary" modification and concludes that the modification is unconstitutional and, therefore, not a legitimate reformation of the common law necessaries doctrine.
Blest Be The Tie That Binds, Joan Heifetz Hollinger
Blest Be The Tie That Binds, Joan Heifetz Hollinger
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The New Family and the New Property by Mary Ann Glendon
Who Speaks For The Child: The Problems Of Proxy Consent, Michigan Law Review
Who Speaks For The Child: The Problems Of Proxy Consent, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Who Speaks for the Child: The Problems of Proxy Consent edited by Willard Gaylin and Ruth Macklin
Illegitimacy: An Examination Of Bastardy, Michigan Law Review
Illegitimacy: An Examination Of Bastardy, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Illegitimacy: An Examination of Bastardy by Jenny Teichman
The Marriage Contract, Michigan Law Review
The Marriage Contract, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of the The Marriage Contract by Lenore J. Weitzman
The Constitutional Status Of Marriage, Kinship, And Sexual Privacy -- Balancing The Individual And Social Interests, Bruce C. Hafen
The Constitutional Status Of Marriage, Kinship, And Sexual Privacy -- Balancing The Individual And Social Interests, Bruce C. Hafen
Michigan Law Review
Today's lopsided competition between the individual and social interests has made the law a party to the contemporary haze that clouds our vision of what a family is or should be. In that sense, recent legal developments have contributed to the crisis Stanley Hauerwas has identified regarding American family life today - our inability to define "what kind of family should exist" and our inability to articulate ''why we should think of [the family] as our most basic moral institution."
In response to those two questions, this Article considers whether, as a constitutional matter, the courts should recognize claims by …