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The False Promise Of Custody In Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Laurie S. Kohn
The False Promise Of Custody In Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Laurie S. Kohn
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This Article reveals the disconnect between the power and the will to enforce the custody and parenting time provisions of protection orders through criminal mechanisms and explores the further infirmity of civil enforcement by illustrating the shortcomings of available relief. Together, these barriers to effective enforcement threaten to render this court-granted protection meaningless and dangerously misleading. The barriers also undermine the many years of advocacy invested to secure these protections in the first place - reforms aimed at protecting victims and children from abusive parents.
This Article explores ways to bring together the will and the power to enforce all …
Money Can’T Buy You Love: Valuing Contributions By Nonresidential Fathers, Laurie S. Kohn
Money Can’T Buy You Love: Valuing Contributions By Nonresidential Fathers, Laurie S. Kohn
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This article examines the roots of the disproportionate values the legal system assigns to paternal roles in the family law and child support system, looking to social norms, traditional family law, and the state's interests in the well-being of children. This hierarchy of values reveals itself in the current structure of child support laws and in the enforcement of parenting-time orders on the one hand and child support obligations on the other. The article considers how the allocation of disproportionate values impacts low-income fathers, mothers, children, and the state. The article envisions ways in which the family law system could …