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What’S The Constitution Got To Do With It? Regulating Marriage In Pakistan, Karin Carmit Yefet
What’S The Constitution Got To Do With It? Regulating Marriage In Pakistan, Karin Carmit Yefet
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
[...] the supreme law of the land seems to embody a blatant contradiction. The Pakistani Constitution extends protection to an impressive catalog of fundamental rights, placing Pakistan in line with some of the most western-minded constitutional regimes in the world.3 At the same time, in contrast to the American-style constitutional commitment to separate church and state,4 the Pakistani regime is constitutionally committed to integrate the two, in the sense that all laws must conform to the injunctions of Islam as a condition of their constitutional validity.5 So the same Constitution that protects western fundamental rights also elevates Islamic law, a …
Income From Separate Property: Towards A Theoretical Foundation, Thomas R. Andrews
Income From Separate Property: Towards A Theoretical Foundation, Thomas R. Andrews
Law and Contemporary Problems
The characterization of the rents, issues and profits from separate property brought into or acquired during marriage is discussed. There has been no comprehensive treatment of this issue in community property case law and literature in recent years.
Management Of The Community Estate During An Intact Marriage, J. Thomas Oldham
Management Of The Community Estate During An Intact Marriage, J. Thomas Oldham
Law and Contemporary Problems
The systems that have been created in community property states to address the management of various types of community property are surveyed, and an optimal managment system for marital property is recommended.