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Fathers, Divorce, And Child Custody, Matthew M. Stevenson, Sanford L. Braver, Ira M. Ellman, Ashley M. Votruba
Fathers, Divorce, And Child Custody, Matthew M. Stevenson, Sanford L. Braver, Ira M. Ellman, Ashley M. Votruba
Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications
A great many fathers will have their fathering eliminated, disrupted, or vastly changed because they become divorced from the child’s mother. In fact, between 40% and 50% of marriages end in divorce (Cherlin, 2010). Although the divorce rate (measured as divorces per 1,000 people) is high by the standards prior to the late 1960s, it has actually fallen more than 30% since its peak in 1980. The decline in divorce rates in recent years has, however, been concentrated among the college-educated portion of the population; divorce rates among the less well educated may have even increased (Cherlin, 2010). But for …
Will The Real Reasonable Person Please Stand Up? Using Psychology To Better Understand And Apply The Reasonable Person Standard, Ashley M. Votruba
Will The Real Reasonable Person Please Stand Up? Using Psychology To Better Understand And Apply The Reasonable Person Standard, Ashley M. Votruba
Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications
This article will consist of four main parts. Part I will review the historical and current Reasonable Person Standard. More specifically, it will discuss a brief history of the common law negligence standard leading to the current commonly used Reasonable Person Standard, review the current American Law Institute ("ALI") language of the Reasonable Person Standard, and briefly outline the three most common legal theorist conceptualizations of the negligence standard in order to provide a review of the current understanding of the negligence standard. Part II will then examine the importance of the jury and the limited instruction they are provided …
Medical Adverse Events And Malpractice Litigation In Arizona: By-The-Numbers, Ashley M. Votruba, Michael J. Saks
Medical Adverse Events And Malpractice Litigation In Arizona: By-The-Numbers, Ashley M. Votruba, Michael J. Saks
Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications
A new medical malpractice "crisis" periodically erupts across the United States, invariably producing calls for legislative solutions. Typically, the public is told that rising malpractice insurance premiums are driving doctors out of their practices or out of our state, while increasing the cost of health care, and that those rising insurance rates are the product of too many unwarranted lawsuits resulting in exorbitant damage awards. The legislative fixes typically involve restricting the ability of plaintiffs to bring claims, to prosecute their claims successfully, or to recover full damages if they happen to prevail on their claims. The U.S. Congress sometimes …