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Searching The Legacy Of The Reformation For Lutheran Responses To Modern Family Law, Marie Failinger
Searching The Legacy Of The Reformation For Lutheran Responses To Modern Family Law, Marie Failinger
Faculty Scholarship
This article builds upon historical work on changes in the law of marriage, divorce and the family after the Reformation, and describes how modern Lutheran theology, formed during the Reformation, evaluates modern trends in American family law. From the key Lutheran theological insight that God is creatively ordering human activity as a partner with human beings, the Lutheran tradition approaches issues such as no-fault divorce and same-sex marriage with both trust and challenge.
Settling In The Shadow Of Sex: Gender Bias In Marital Asset Division, Jennifer Bennett Shinall
Settling In The Shadow Of Sex: Gender Bias In Marital Asset Division, Jennifer Bennett Shinall
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Divorce has a long history of economically disempowering women. From the time of coverture to the era of modern divorce reform, women have been persistently disadvantaged by divorce relative to men. Family law scholars have long attributed this disadvantage to the continued prevalence of traditional gender roles and the failure of current marital asset division laws to account adequately for this prevalence. In spite of the progress made by the women's movement over the past half-century, married, heterosexual women endure as the primary caretaker in the majority of households, and married, heterosexual men endure as the primary breadwinners. Undoubtedly, women …