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Sacred Children, Taboo Tradeoffs, And Distorted Discourses, Sean Hannon Williams
Sacred Children, Taboo Tradeoffs, And Distorted Discourses, Sean Hannon Williams
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article brings together three literatures—bioethics, psychological research on taboo tradeoffs, and family law—to reveal pervasive distortions in current family law scholarship and judicial reasoning. Empirical work in bioethics shows that child welfare occupies a unique moral sphere. People routinely resist making tradeoffs between spheres. Just as sacrificing adult lives for money is taboo, so too is sacrificing child welfare for adult welfare. When faced with the prospect of these tradeoffs, people engage in a predictable set of avoidance and moral mitigation strategies. Across five case studies, this Article shows how child welfare has talismanic qualities which, even in the …
Babies Aren't U.S., Zachary J. Devlin
Babies Aren't U.S., Zachary J. Devlin
University of Massachusetts Law Review
Parental leave has been an on-going issue in the political process, most recently during this presidential election. This is because upon the birth or adoption of a child, many in the United States cannot afford to take time off from work to care for and integrate children into their families. This is especially true for the contemporary family. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) was Congress’s attempt to strike equilibrium between employment and family and medical needs. The FMLA put legal emphasis on the family unit in an effort to neutralize gender discrimination while promoting gender equality …
Reforming The Processes For Challenging Voluntary Acknowledgments Of Paternity, Jeffrey A. Parness, David A. Saxe
Reforming The Processes For Challenging Voluntary Acknowledgments Of Paternity, Jeffrey A. Parness, David A. Saxe
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Voluntary acknowledgements of paternity (VAPs) significantly determine male legal parentage at birth for many children born of sex to unwed mothers in the United States. VAP processes are chiefly dictated by the federal Social Security Act, which places certain mandates on states participating in federally-subsidized welfare programs. These processes include norms on effective VAP establishments and on VAP disestablishments, either via early rescissions (within sixty days) by signatories or via later contests (after sixty days) by challengers, including signatories. The norms are driven by the Act’s desire to increase reimbursements of state child welfare payments from unwed fathers regardless of …
"Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe": Disestablishment Of Paternity, Vanessa S. Browne-Barbour
"Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe": Disestablishment Of Paternity, Vanessa S. Browne-Barbour
Akron Law Review
Part II of this Article provides a general historical overview of paternity rules. Part III summarizes the laws addressing paternity and its disestablishment in the United States and the European Union. It discusses related cases from the high courts of both jurisdictions, which highlight the broad range of issues, interests, and consequences associated with issues of paternity. Part IV considers the adverse effects of disestablishment of paternity on a child. It recommends nationally mandated genetic testing at birth or soon thereafter. This would eliminate altogether the need for paternity disestablishment procedures, thereby avoiding their harmful effects. Part V acknowledges that …
Dangers In De Facto Parenthood, Jeffrey A. Parness
Dangers In De Facto Parenthood, Jeffrey A. Parness
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Fighting The Establishment: The Need For Procedural Reform Of Our Paternity Laws, Caroline Rogus
Fighting The Establishment: The Need For Procedural Reform Of Our Paternity Laws, Caroline Rogus
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Every state and the District of Columbia use voluntary acknowledgments of paternity. Created pursuant to federal law, the acknowledgment is signed by the purported biological parents and establishes paternity without requiring court involvement. Intended to be a “simple civil process” to establish paternity where the parents are unmarried, the acknowledgment is used by state governments to expedite child support litigation. But federal policy and state laws governing the acknowledgments do not sufficiently protect the interests of those men who have signed acknowledgments and who subsequently discover that they lack genetic ties to the children in question. A signatory who learns …
In Re Lisa R. 13 Cal. 3d 336, 532 P.2d 123, 119 Cal. Rptr. 475 (1975), Elliot Shelton
In Re Lisa R. 13 Cal. 3d 336, 532 P.2d 123, 119 Cal. Rptr. 475 (1975), Elliot Shelton
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Who's Your Daddy? Defining Paternity Rights In The Context Of Free, Private Sperm Donation, Lauren Gill
Who's Your Daddy? Defining Paternity Rights In The Context Of Free, Private Sperm Donation, Lauren Gill
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Astrue V. Capato: Relegating Posthumously Conceived Children To Second-Class Citizens, Nicole M. Barnard
Astrue V. Capato: Relegating Posthumously Conceived Children To Second-Class Citizens, Nicole M. Barnard
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Child's Right To Be Heard And Represented In Judicial Proceedings , Howard A. Davidson
The Child's Right To Be Heard And Represented In Judicial Proceedings , Howard A. Davidson
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
California's Conclusive Presumption Of Paternity And The Expansion Of Unwed Fathers' Rights, Batya F. Smernoff
California's Conclusive Presumption Of Paternity And The Expansion Of Unwed Fathers' Rights, Batya F. Smernoff
Golden Gate University Law Review
This comment begins with the history of the conclusive presumption of paternity in California, from its common law roots to its modern day affirmation in Michael H. v. Gerald D. This background will discuss the adoption of the Uniform Parentage Act in California and its application in paternity proceedings. In an effort to advocate the need for its repeal, this comment will also discuss the modem trend in the California courts to circumvent the conclusive presumption. The comment concludes that this rebuttable presumption enables an unwed father to establish his parental rights regardless of the mother's marital status. By protecting …
The Lesbian Family: Rights In Conflict Under The California Uniform Parentage Act, Stuart A. Sutton
The Lesbian Family: Rights In Conflict Under The California Uniform Parentage Act, Stuart A. Sutton
Golden Gate University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Partitioning Paternity: The German Approach To A Disjuncture Between Genetic And Legal Paternity With Implications For American Courts, Shelly Ann Kamei
Partitioning Paternity: The German Approach To A Disjuncture Between Genetic And Legal Paternity With Implications For American Courts, Shelly Ann Kamei
San Diego International Law Journal
This paper will address the strengths and weaknesses of the German approach as well as the potential use of this approach by American states, with particular emphasis given to the conflict between the right to know one’s origins and a child’s right to care and support. Part II discusses the challenge of defining legal paternity in an age of genetic certainty. It will first give a brief explanation of how courts have used functional–social and genetic considerations in defining legal paternity. It will then evaluate the legal implications of this approach on the rights of the father, mother, and child. …
The Family Law Doctrine Of Equivalence, Amy L. Wax
The Family Law Doctrine Of Equivalence, Amy L. Wax
Michigan Law Review
Students of patent law learn the doctrine of equivalents. According to the doctrine, a patent protects an invention that does "the same work in substantially the same way, and accomplish[ es] substantially the same result," as the device described in the patent, even if it differs "'in name, form, or shape." In her new book, Nancy Polikoff has fashioned something like a parallel doctrine for families. Let's call it (with a slight play on words) the family law Doctrine of Equivalence. In today's world, according to Polikoff, a broad set of relationships now plays the same role as marriage and …
Parentage At Birth: Birthfathers And Social Fatherhood, Nancy E. Dowd
Parentage At Birth: Birthfathers And Social Fatherhood, Nancy E. Dowd
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Plight Of Putative Father: Public Policy V. Paternity Fraud, Maegan Padgett
The Plight Of Putative Father: Public Policy V. Paternity Fraud, Maegan Padgett
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Paradox Of Unmarried Fathers And The Constitution: Biology "Plus" Defines Relationships; Biology Alone Safeguards The Public Fisc, Laura Oren
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Illegitimate Children’S Rights In Probate Proceedings—In Re Estate Of James A. Palmer, Deceased, Robert A. Mcleod
Illegitimate Children’S Rights In Probate Proceedings—In Re Estate Of James A. Palmer, Deceased, Robert A. Mcleod
William Mitchell Law Review
The transfer of a person's assets after death has been an important element in the law beginning with the Magna Carta, and is firmly rooted in American jurisprudence. Defining children and heirs for probate purposes remains a difficult issue. In particular, the determination of children and heirs in an age when the birth of “illegitimate” children is common makes the proper and just determination of heirship a recurring and timely topic. The Minnesota Probate Code defines the term “child” and provides: “a person is the child of the person's parents regardless of the marital status of the parents and the …
Beyond Conception: Legal Determinations Of Filiation In The Context Of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Roxanne Mykitiuk
Beyond Conception: Legal Determinations Of Filiation In The Context Of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Roxanne Mykitiuk
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article argues that legal determinations of filiation are normative ideological constructions about how societal relations between parents and children should be ordered. They am based upon particular understandings of the relationship between biological and social facts and, as this article demonstrates, operate to create an asymmetrical relationship between the categories between paternity and maternity I suggest that fairly recent developments in reproductive and genetic filiation have been made and offer the potential for an expanded understanding of relatedness or kinship which does not take the two-parent-one of each sex-model of the family as its normative form. While the examples …
Somebody's Child: Evaluating The Erosion Of The Marital Presumption Of Paternity, Theresa Glennon
Somebody's Child: Evaluating The Erosion Of The Marital Presumption Of Paternity, Theresa Glennon
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Abortions Of The Parental Prerogatives Of Unwed Natural Fathers: Deterring Lost Paternity, Jeffrey A. Parness
Abortions Of The Parental Prerogatives Of Unwed Natural Fathers: Deterring Lost Paternity, Jeffrey A. Parness
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
If Anybody Ask You Who I Am: An Outsider's Story Of The Duty To Establish Paternity, Lisa Kelly
If Anybody Ask You Who I Am: An Outsider's Story Of The Duty To Establish Paternity, Lisa Kelly
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Designating Male Parents At Birth, Jeffrey A. Parness
Designating Male Parents At Birth, Jeffrey A. Parness
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In focusing on legal designations of male parentage as of the time of birth, this Essay first reviews the methods by which such designations currently are made. The difficulties raised by contemporary methods then will be explored, together with suggested reforms involving laws that could promote earlier, more complete, and more accurate designations of male parentage as of the time of a child's birth.
Putative Fathers And Parental Interests: A Search For Protection, Stacy Lynn Hill
Putative Fathers And Parental Interests: A Search For Protection, Stacy Lynn Hill
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement Of Support Act And The Defense Of Non-Paternity: A Functional Analysis, Richard P. Perna
The Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement Of Support Act And The Defense Of Non-Paternity: A Functional Analysis, Richard P. Perna
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Rights Of An Illegitimate Child Post - Gomez V. Perez: A Legitimate Situation., Deborah J. Venezia
The Rights Of An Illegitimate Child Post - Gomez V. Perez: A Legitimate Situation., Deborah J. Venezia
St. Mary's Law Journal
Throughout Texas history the legal status of illegitimacy has prevented an illegitimate child from enjoying the right of parental support guaranteed to a legitimate child. The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Gomez v. Perez rendered unconstitutional the denial of an illegitimate child’s right to parental support on the basis of his illegitimacy. In response to Gomez, the Texas Legislature enacted Chapter 13 of the Texas Family Code (TFC) which provides for voluntary legitimation of an illegitimate child by the father. Section 13.01 gave an illegitimate child, whose natural father did not voluntarily acknowledge paternity, procedure to establish the parent-child …
Evidence--The Admissibility Of Polygraph Test Results In Paternity Cases, Dale F. Sheppard
Evidence--The Admissibility Of Polygraph Test Results In Paternity Cases, Dale F. Sheppard
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Equal Protection For The Illegitimate, Harry D. Krause
Equal Protection For The Illegitimate, Harry D. Krause
Michigan Law Review
In our time the general constitutional phrase promising equal protection has become specific law. It has been used to invalidate many state statutes which discriminated on the basis of race or other arbitrary criteria. Definite rules have been developed for this process of invalidation. These rules will be applied below to state and federal legislation that favors the legitimate child and discriminates against the illegitimate in matters of inheritance rights, rights of support, rights of name and custody, and social welfare. The question that will be asked is whether state and federal legislation may constitutionally discriminate between children on the …
Evidence--Competency To Husband And Wife To Testify To Nonaccess During Time Of Conception, Lewis Charles Pellegrin
Evidence--Competency To Husband And Wife To Testify To Nonaccess During Time Of Conception, Lewis Charles Pellegrin
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Public Policy Considerations In Rulings On The Uniform Act On Blood Tests To Determine Paternity, Robert Johnston
Public Policy Considerations In Rulings On The Uniform Act On Blood Tests To Determine Paternity, Robert Johnston
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.