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The Custody Battle Over Cryogenically Preserved Embryos After Divorce: Advocating For Infertile Women’S Rights, Cori S. Annapolen Oct 2005

The Custody Battle Over Cryogenically Preserved Embryos After Divorce: Advocating For Infertile Women’S Rights, Cori S. Annapolen

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This paper focuses on the struggles that infertile women face to achieve motherhood because their rights are underrepresented in the American court system. It specifically centers on how the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) helps infertile women conceive children, but then details the problems that increasing technology now causes for these women after they freeze embryos and then divorce. Because the courts of only four states have determined who gets custody of these embryos after a divorce, and because the divorce rate and the number of couples utilizing IVF are increasing, future states will likely be forced to answer …


Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor Sep 2005

Breaking The Bank: Revisiting Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia Taylor

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Rhetorical Holy War: Polygamy, Homosexuality, And The Paradox Of Community And Autonomy, Gregory C. Pingree Aug 2005

Rhetorical Holy War: Polygamy, Homosexuality, And The Paradox Of Community And Autonomy, Gregory C. Pingree

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The article explores the rhetorical strategies deployed in both legal and cultural narratives of Mormon polygamy in nineteenth-century America. It demonstrates how an understanding of that unique communal experience, and the narratives by which it was represented, informs the classic paradox of community and autonomy – the tension between the collective and the individual. The article concludes by using the Mormon polygamy analysis to illuminate a contemporary social situation that underscores the paradox of community and autonomy – homosexuality and the so-called culture wars over family values and the meaning of marriage.


Domestic Violence And Lawyer Malpractice: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, Margaret B. Drew Jan 2005

Domestic Violence And Lawyer Malpractice: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, Margaret B. Drew

Margaret B Drew

Many family law attorneys are not qualified to represent survivors of domestic violence. Often the attorneys are not educated on the dynamics of domestic violence or the risks encountered by survivors as they navigate the family court system. Despite the availabilty of domestic violence text books, literature and empirical data, often attorneys fail to understand abuse amd ignore its consequences when recommending remedies for the abuser as well as the survivor client. In doling so, attorneys open themselves to potential malpractice claims. This articles explores some of the ways in which attorneys minimize the impact of abuse on the family …


Lesbian And Gay Parenting: The Last Thirty Years, Nancy Polikoff Jan 2005

Lesbian And Gay Parenting: The Last Thirty Years, Nancy Polikoff

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