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Whatever Your Thoughts On Marriage, Gay Divorce Is A Concern, Nathan B. Oman Sep 2019

Whatever Your Thoughts On Marriage, Gay Divorce Is A Concern, Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman

No abstract provided.


For Richer Or Poorer, 'Til Decree Do Us Part - A Spouse's Entitlement To Division Of Pension Funds And Professional Degrees As Marital Property, Linda A. Malone Sep 2019

For Richer Or Poorer, 'Til Decree Do Us Part - A Spouse's Entitlement To Division Of Pension Funds And Professional Degrees As Marital Property, Linda A. Malone

Linda A. Malone

No abstract provided.


The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Employment Division V. Smith For Family Law, James G. Dwyer Sep 2019

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Employment Division V. Smith For Family Law, James G. Dwyer

James G. Dwyer

No abstract provided.


Misused Concepts And Misguided Questions: Fundamental Confusions In Family Law Debates, James G. Dwyer Sep 2019

Misused Concepts And Misguided Questions: Fundamental Confusions In Family Law Debates, James G. Dwyer

James G. Dwyer

No abstract provided.


Diagnosing Liberal Resistance To Needed Child Welfare Reforms, James G. Dwyer Sep 2019

Diagnosing Liberal Resistance To Needed Child Welfare Reforms, James G. Dwyer

James G. Dwyer

No abstract provided.


Children's Interests In A Family Context - A Cautionary Note, James G. Dwyer Sep 2019

Children's Interests In A Family Context - A Cautionary Note, James G. Dwyer

James G. Dwyer

No abstract provided.


Why We Should Raise The Marriage Age, Vivian E. Hamilton Sep 2019

Why We Should Raise The Marriage Age, Vivian E. Hamilton

Vivian E. Hamilton

No abstract provided.


Principles Of U.S. Family Law, Vivian E. Hamilton Sep 2019

Principles Of U.S. Family Law, Vivian E. Hamilton

Vivian E. Hamilton

What explains U.S. family law? What are the origins of the current chaos and controversy in the field, the home of some of the most vituperative debates in public policy? To answer these questions, this Article identifies and examines family law's foundational principles. It undertakes a conceptual analysis of the legal practices that govern families. This analysis has yet to be done, and its absence hamstrings constructive thought on our family law. The Article develops a typology that conceptualizes U.S. family law and exposes its underlying principles. First, it identifies the significant elements, or rules, of family law. Second, it …


Expressing Community Values Through Family Law Adjudication, Vivian E. Hamilton Sep 2019

Expressing Community Values Through Family Law Adjudication, Vivian E. Hamilton

Vivian E. Hamilton

No abstract provided.


A Constitutional Right To Home Instruction?, Neal Devins Sep 2019

A Constitutional Right To Home Instruction?, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Leveling The Playing Field: Advancing Free Legal Aid For The Family Law Claims Of Ethiopian Women, Maereg Tewoldebirhan Alemayehu Apr 2019

Leveling The Playing Field: Advancing Free Legal Aid For The Family Law Claims Of Ethiopian Women, Maereg Tewoldebirhan Alemayehu

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, Soft Law, And The Procedural Rule Of Law, Jodi Lazare Jan 2019

The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, Soft Law, And The Procedural Rule Of Law, Jodi Lazare

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines facilitate discretionary spousal support determinations under the Divorce Act. Non-binding in nature, they are expected to restore some transparency to an uncertain and unpredictable remedy and to benefit dependent spouses who might previously have been deterred from claiming support. They may thus be seen as an important tool for advancing economic justice at family breakdown and promoting substantive economic gender equality. Several Canadian appellate courts have enthusiastically endorsed them. Others object to their application, grounding their resistance in their unofficial and non-binding character. This paper responds to that objection, based on the constitutional separation of …


Reynolds V. United States, Rewritten, Laura T. Kessler Jan 2019

Reynolds V. United States, Rewritten, Laura T. Kessler

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

In Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878), Chief Justice Morrison Waite, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, upheld the federal Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act outlawing polygamy in the federal territories and providing criminal penalties for it. This is a re-writing of that opinion, presented in the form of a dissent, available in Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020). Unlike the Court’s opinion, this dissent concludes that religious practice, as well as belief, is protected by the First Amendment. It therefore holds that a religious duty to engage in an unlawful practice may be a …