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Law, Science, And History: Reflections Upon In The Best Interests Of The Child, Peggy C. Davis
Law, Science, And History: Reflections Upon In The Best Interests Of The Child, Peggy C. Davis
Michigan Law Review
A Review of In the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit, and Sonja Goldstein
Families In Peril, Nellie Pappas
Families In Peril, Nellie Pappas
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Families in Peril by Marian Wright Edelman
Legislatures And Legal Change: The Reform Of Divorce Law, Carl E. Schneider
Legislatures And Legal Change: The Reform Of Divorce Law, Carl E. Schneider
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Silent Revolution: Routine Policy Making and the Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States by Herbert Jacob
The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Family Wealth Transmission, John H. Langbein
The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Family Wealth Transmission, John H. Langbein
Michigan Law Review
The main purpose of this article is to sound a pair of themes about the ways in which these great changes in the nature of wealth have become associated with changes of perhaps comparable magnitude in the timing and in the character of family wealth transmission. My first theme, developed in Part II, concerns human capital. Whereas of old, wealth transmission from parents to children tended to center upon major items of patrimony such as the family farm or the family firm, today for the broad middle classes, wealth transmission centers on a radically different kind of asset: the investment …