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Due Process Rights Of Parents And Children In International Child Abductions, Dorothy C. Daigle
Due Process Rights Of Parents And Children In International Child Abductions, Dorothy C. Daigle
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Rising divorce rates in recent years have led to increasingly frequent abductions of children by one parent away from the other parent. Often, abducting parents move the children to different jurisdictions in which the parents believe they can obtain a more favorable decision on custody. To remedy this problem, twenty-nine nations joined in 1980 to adopt the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. This Convention mandates the immediate return, upon request, of the abducted child to the state of habitual residence of the child. The Convention includes several limited exceptions to this mandate, applicable at the …
Texas Community Property Law: Conservative Attitudes, Reluctant Change, Joseph W. Mcknight
Texas Community Property Law: Conservative Attitudes, Reluctant Change, Joseph W. Mcknight
Law and Contemporary Problems
A senselessly rigid interpretation of a provision in the Texas consititution referring to a married woman's separate property has hampered development of community property law. The state's addressing of this issue is discussed.
Introduction: Family Law In The 1990s -- New Problems, Strong Solutions, L. Elizabeth Bowles
Introduction: Family Law In The 1990s -- New Problems, Strong Solutions, L. Elizabeth Bowles
Vanderbilt Law Review
The 1992 Presidential campaign was fraught with references to "family values." While Vice President Quayle took on a fictional television character for choosing to have a child out of wedlock," candidate Clinton was vowing support for the Family Leave Bill and other pro- family measures. Although the political rhetoric of the 1992 campaign was partisan in nature, the emphasis placed on the family by the political parties reflects the seriousness of the problems facing the American family in the 1990s. The American family is not the same entity that it was twenty years ago. Now, "nontraditional" families, such as single …