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Domestic Relations Divorce: Require Certain Divorcing Parents To Participate In Certain Education Classes That Focus On The Effect Of Divorce And Separation On Children; Provide For Legislative Findings; Provide For The Types Of Persons Who Can Provide The Education; Provide For Exceptions To The Education Classes; Change Certain Provisions Relating To The Time Limit For Granting A Divorce On The Ground That The Marriage Is Irretrievably Broken; Provide For A Different Time Frame For Granting Divorce Based On Certain Circumstances; Provide For Related Matters; Provide For An Effective Date And Applicability; Repeal Conflicting Laws; And For Other Purposes, Karen Hamilton
Georgia State University Law Review
The bill would have required certain divorcing parents with dependent children under 18 years of age to participate in education classes and provided the different types of professionals who could conduct the classes. The bill also would have enacted a waiting period changing the time a court could grant a divorce to 120 days from the date of the parties' separation when the parties have children 18 years of age or younger. The bill provided a waiting period waiver when a party obtained a protective order or when either party submitted allegations to the court of specific facts establishing probable …
Collaborative Practice: A New Opportunity To Address Children's Best Interest In Divorce, Susan Gamache
Collaborative Practice: A New Opportunity To Address Children's Best Interest In Divorce, Susan Gamache
Louisiana Law Review
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African American Intimacy: The Racial Gap In Marriage, R. Richard Banks, Su Jin Gatlin
African American Intimacy: The Racial Gap In Marriage, R. Richard Banks, Su Jin Gatlin
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
This essay is divided into three parts. Part I documents the extent of the racial gap in marriage. Part II uses the marriage patterns of affluent Black men in particular to speculate about how the relationships of Black men and women might be influenced by the relative numbers of men and women and the men's socioeconomic characteristics in ways that depress marriage rates. Part III connects the low rate of marriage among African Americans to the differing interracial marriage rates of Black men and women.