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Joint Custody As Norm: Solomon Revisited, Alison Harvison Young
Joint Custody As Norm: Solomon Revisited, Alison Harvison Young
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Most jurisdictions in Canada and the United States have, to a greater or lesser extent, endorsed the notion of joint custody in recent years. The author suggests that-the move toward joint custody has resulted from a combination of two major factors: the notion of parental equality and the application of the best interests of the child test. The growing prominence of equal parental rights has created a strong temptation to approach custody as a Solomonic exercise in dividing the children equally between those with equal rights over them. The indeterminacy of the best interests test may readily encourage custody determinations …
Why Canada Has No Family Policy: Lessons From France And Italy, Philip Girard
Why Canada Has No Family Policy: Lessons From France And Italy, Philip Girard
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This paper uses a comparative legal history approach to examine the "private" law of the family in France, Italy, and the major English-speaking countries in order to clarify the fundamental notions of the family which predated the welfare state. It is suggested that a major cleavage exists, historically, between an autonomous family law in France and Italy oriented around notions of familial solidarity, sibling interdependence and equality, and intergenerational continuity, and a family law in the English-speaking countries marked by a preoccupation with the protection of property rights and the independence of individual family members. These contrasts reveal differing societal …