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Legal Regulation Of Twenty-First-Century Families, Marsha Garrison, Elizabeth S. Scott Jan 2012

Legal Regulation Of Twenty-First-Century Families, Marsha Garrison, Elizabeth S. Scott

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This post includes the table of contents, introduction and our comment as the editors of an interdisciplinary volume that explores the implications for law and policy of changes in marriage and family over the past half century. The volume includes chapters by leading social science researchers and family law scholars whose work focuses on these matters. The book captures the complexity of debates about the regulation of marriage and families and the best policy paths forward, through contributions by authors with widely varying perspectives. But it also aims to inform these debates by situating them in a framework grounded in …


Bargaining For Motherhood: Postadoption Visitation Agreements, Carol Sanger Jan 2012

Bargaining For Motherhood: Postadoption Visitation Agreements, Carol Sanger

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This Article is about the use of contract in family formation. More specifically, I want to look at how contract is now used by parents in the process of acquiring children and, as we shall see, also as a means of retaining interests in those same children under the developing regime of open adoption.