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Antiabortion Civil Remedies And Unwed Fatherhood As Genetic Entitlement, Yvonne F. Lindgren
Antiabortion Civil Remedies And Unwed Fatherhood As Genetic Entitlement, Yvonne F. Lindgren
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Antiabortion civil remedy laws in effect in five states grant putative fathers the right to sue abortion providers for wrongful death regardless of their relationship to the gestating parent. While these laws represent an important new development in the movement to restrict the abortion right, they also expand parental recognition of unwed fathers. Constitutional law requires that unwed fathers who seek to assert parental rights must establish that they possess both biological connection and a relationship with their child or the gestating parent—what has come to be known as “biology-plus.” However, antiabortion civil remedy laws vest parental recognition and rights …
Covid-19: A Catalyst To Automate Protection Order Petitions To Support Self-Represented Litigants, Ayyoub Ajmi
Covid-19: A Catalyst To Automate Protection Order Petitions To Support Self-Represented Litigants, Ayyoub Ajmi
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COVID-19 exacerbated the crisis in access to legal services especially for victims of domestic violence for whom the pandemic made their situations even more precarious. In this article, the author shares his experience of building and implementing an automated solution to help pro-se litigants petition the court for emergency protection orders remotely and without the need to visit the courthouse. The article describes the lessons learned in developing a state court online portal dedicated to educating abuse victims and providing them with an automated way to petition the court for protection orders remotely without the need to visit a courthouse. …
Covid-19'S Impact On Families, Lawyers, And Courts: An Annotated Bibliography, Allen K. Rostron
Covid-19'S Impact On Families, Lawyers, And Courts: An Annotated Bibliography, Allen K. Rostron
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Dobbs V. Jackson Women’S Health And The Post-Roe Landscape, Yvonne F. Lindgren
Dobbs V. Jackson Women’S Health And The Post-Roe Landscape, Yvonne F. Lindgren
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This Article examines some of the important takeaways of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision and the likely reverberations it will have on other areas of law and reproductive healthcare more broadly. The Article proceeds in three parts. Part I examines the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions to consider what they reveal about the new standard of review for abortion, the shift in power among the members of the Court itself, as well as what the opinion signals might come next. Part II explores the future of abortion in a post-Roe landscape as the abortion rights movement moves from …
The Fathers' Veto And Fatherhood As Property, Yvonne F. Lindgren
The Fathers' Veto And Fatherhood As Property, Yvonne F. Lindgren
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Over the last twenty-five years, state legislators have been quietly adding civil remedy provisions to antiabortion legislation to supplement, and in the case of Texas’s Senate Bill 8, to completely replace the traditional criminal and administrative enforcement mechanisms of restrictive abortion legislation. Laws currently in effect in at least eight states permit fathers to sue abortion providers for civil damages for wrongful death and emotional distress for alleged harms that result from the abortion procedure. Several state legislatures have introduced laws—although to date all have been enjoined or are being challenged—that require women seeking an abortion to get signed consent …
Constitutional Issues In Family Law: An Annotated Bibliography (Part 1 Of 2), Allen K. Rostron
Constitutional Issues In Family Law: An Annotated Bibliography (Part 1 Of 2), Allen K. Rostron
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This bibliography covers some of the significant constitutional issues arising in the realm of family law today, as well as other legal and policy issues spinning off of the constitutional controversies. It focuses on issues discussed in the articles in this issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.