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Full-Text Articles in Family Law
The Rights Of Putative Fathers To Their Infant Children In Contested Adoptions: Strengthening State Laws That Currently Deny Adequate Protection, Robbin Pott Gonzalez
The Rights Of Putative Fathers To Their Infant Children In Contested Adoptions: Strengthening State Laws That Currently Deny Adequate Protection, Robbin Pott Gonzalez
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
This paper argues that states need to strengthen protection of putative fathers' rights to their infant children when the mother wishes for the child to be adopted. Part I frames the discussion around established parental rights through constitutional case law. To do this, the paper addresses both the Supreme Court's parental rights doctrine and its biology-plus doctrine, which requires unwed fathers to show that in addition to being the biological father they also have taken responsibility for their children. Part II describes common state statutes that affect putative fathers, including putative father registries, safe haven laws, and laws granting custody …
Comments: Who Turned Out The Lights?: How Maryland Laws Fail To Protect Victims Of Domestic Violence From Third-Party Abuse, Anique Drouin
Comments: Who Turned Out The Lights?: How Maryland Laws Fail To Protect Victims Of Domestic Violence From Third-Party Abuse, Anique Drouin
University of Baltimore Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Representation Of Birth Parents And Adoptive Parents, Elizabeth Samuels
Legal Representation Of Birth Parents And Adoptive Parents, Elizabeth Samuels
All Faculty Scholarship
The Article examines the role that legal representation of birth and prospective parents may or may not play in independent domestic adoptions in furthering two primary goals that characterize ethically and humanely conducted adoptions, deliberate decision making and finality. Ideally, these two goals are complementary and can be balanced with one another. There is, however, a danger of the second goal eclipsing the first. Many state laws appear to value an increase in infant adoptions over the goal of encouraging careful deliberation. Most domestic infant adoptions involve powerful market forces as well as powerful emotional pressures, and they occur in …
One Family In Two Courts: Coordination For Families In Illinois Juvenile And Domestic Relations Courts, Amy Kosanovich
One Family In Two Courts: Coordination For Families In Illinois Juvenile And Domestic Relations Courts, Amy Kosanovich
Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Review Of Fathers Under Fire: The Revolution In Child Support Enforcement, By Irwin Garfinkel, Sara S. Mclanahan, Daniel R. Meyer, And Judith A. Seltzer, Ryan Spohn
Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications
The title of this book adequately reflects its timely focus on nonresidential fathers facing increased child support enforcement, examining how child support contributions (or failure to meet child support obligations) affect the lives of children as well as the fathers themselves. As the authors suggest, nonresident fathers have generally been treated as financial resources, with little attention paid to their rights as parents or their needs as providers for their children. A particular focus of this collection of studies is the role of indigent nonresident fathers and their role as parents and providers. Consequently, the scope of study adopted by …
Afterword: Elite Principles: The Ali Proposals And The Politics Of Law Reform, Carl E. Scheider
Afterword: Elite Principles: The Ali Proposals And The Politics Of Law Reform, Carl E. Scheider
Book Chapters
The Reporters of the PRINCIPLES were distinguished legal scholars who produced a serious and ambitious document. The contributors to the present volume subject the PRINCIPLES to probing, thoughtful, and illuminating analysis. At the volume's beginning, Professor Glendon puts the problems of family law in a broader perspective by examining the challenges families today face in living good lives. Now, at the volume's close, I want to put both the PRINCIPLES and the essays in a broader perspective. I need not vivisect the PRINCIPLES; that is admirably done by the essayists. Rather, I proffer a tool for understanding the PRINCIPLES more …
A Privacy Right To Public Recognition Of Family Relationships - The Cases Of Marriage And Adoption, David D. Meyer
A Privacy Right To Public Recognition Of Family Relationships - The Cases Of Marriage And Adoption, David D. Meyer
Villanova Law Review (1956 - )
No abstract provided.
Intimate Partner Violence: Implications For The Domestic Relations Practitioner, Carol E. Jordan
Intimate Partner Violence: Implications For The Domestic Relations Practitioner, Carol E. Jordan
Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women Publications
No abstract provided.
Children Of Incarcerated Mothers And The Struggle For Stability , Nekima Levy-Pounds
Children Of Incarcerated Mothers And The Struggle For Stability , Nekima Levy-Pounds
The Modern American
No abstract provided.
Perpetuating The Impermanence Of Foster Children: A Critical Analysis Of Efforts To Reform The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children, Vivek Sankaran
Perpetuating The Impermanence Of Foster Children: A Critical Analysis Of Efforts To Reform The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children, Vivek Sankaran
Articles
The importance of expediting the placement of foster children into permanent homes has emerged as a dominant theme in child welfare policy. Identifying and finalizing legally secure placements provides children with psychological stability and a sense of belonging, and limits the likelihood of future disruptions of familial relationships. Upon a child's entry into foster care, child welfare agencies, under both federal and state laws, are compelled to develop a detailed plan to ensure a child's prompt placement into such a home. If a parent is unable to rectify the conditions causing the child's placement in foster care within a year, …
Are You My Mother? Defending The Rights Of Intended Parents In Gestational Surrogacy Arrangements In Pennsylvania, Krista Sirola
Are You My Mother? Defending The Rights Of Intended Parents In Gestational Surrogacy Arrangements In Pennsylvania, Krista Sirola
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Rhetorical Holy War: Polygamy, Homosexuality, And The Paradox Of Community And Autonomy, Gregory C. Pinfree
Rhetorical Holy War: Polygamy, Homosexuality, And The Paradox Of Community And Autonomy, Gregory C. Pinfree
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Adoption Consents: Legal Incentives For Best Practices, Elizabeth Samuels
Adoption Consents: Legal Incentives For Best Practices, Elizabeth Samuels
All Faculty Scholarship
When a state places its legal imprimatur on the unmaking of one family and the making of another, the state should insure to the greatest extent possible that all the individuals involved have followed or have been afforded the best practices that ethics and humanity demand. The Uniform Adoption Act sets out commonly accepted goals of state adoption laws, among them the goals of protecting minor children against unnecessary separation from their birth parents and of ensuring that a decision by a birth parent to relinquish a minor child and consent to the childs adoption is informed and voluntary. With …
Let's Talk About Sex: School Surveys And Parents' Fundamental Right To Make Decisions Concerning The Upbringing Of Their Children, Robert Kubica
Let's Talk About Sex: School Surveys And Parents' Fundamental Right To Make Decisions Concerning The Upbringing Of Their Children, Robert Kubica
Villanova Law Review (1956 - )
No abstract provided.
Cognitive Dissonance Revisited: Roper V. Simmons And The Issue Of Adolescent Decision-Making Competence, 52 Wayne L. Rev. 1 (2006), Donald L. Beschle
Cognitive Dissonance Revisited: Roper V. Simmons And The Issue Of Adolescent Decision-Making Competence, 52 Wayne L. Rev. 1 (2006), Donald L. Beschle
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Immaculate Deception: The Evolving Right Of Paternal Renunciation, 27 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 139 (2006), Diane S. Kaplan
Immaculate Deception: The Evolving Right Of Paternal Renunciation, 27 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 139 (2006), Diane S. Kaplan
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Kate Kruse
Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Kate Kruse
Faculty Scholarship
The UNLV Conference on Representing Children in Families convened an impressive group of academics, policymakers, practitioners, and participants in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to consider how to move beyond recommendations made ten years earlier about how lawyers for children should approach their work. This essay examines the interrelationship between idealism and realism in the definition of lawyers’ roles as representatives of children and the importance of idealized visions to the process of reforming dysfunctional systems, using examples of child welfare and juvenile justice system reform.
Painter V. Bannister: Still, Carol Weisbrod
Painter V. Bannister: Still, Carol Weisbrod
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Seeking Different Treatment, Or Seeking The Same Regard: Remarketing The Transracial Adoption Debate, Angela Mae Kupenda
Seeking Different Treatment, Or Seeking The Same Regard: Remarketing The Transracial Adoption Debate, Angela Mae Kupenda
Journal Articles
The transracial adoption discourse mistakenly has been phrased as a request for black children awaiting adoption to be treated different from white children and to be placed with parents of like race only. This paper urges a remarketing of the transracial adoption debate to reflect a request based on sameness, not difference. The request presented here is not a request for different treatment for black children. Rather, it is for black children to be given the same regard that is given to white children. This request is illustrated with the story of a black couple seeking to adopt healthy, fat …
Protecting Families In A Global Economy, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Carmen Brun
Protecting Families In A Global Economy, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Carmen Brun
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the developed world, marriage rates are declining, birth and fertility rates are falling, real wages are flat or declining, and hours of family external labor supplied are rising. Finding a spouse and raising children can be inconsistent with the demands of careers in the global economy of the new information age. Globalization of the economy tends to encourage individualism and mobility, in direct opposition to family relationships. Moreover; the extensive period of training that is necessary to compete in the global economy interferes with marriage and …
The Ethics Of Child Custody Evaluation: Advocacy, Respect For Parents, And The Right To An Open Future, Aviva A. Orenstein
The Ethics Of Child Custody Evaluation: Advocacy, Respect For Parents, And The Right To An Open Future, Aviva A. Orenstein
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Washington's 2002 Parentage Act: A Step Backward For The Rights Of Nonmarital Children, Stacey Scriven Bernstein
Washington's 2002 Parentage Act: A Step Backward For The Rights Of Nonmarital Children, Stacey Scriven Bernstein
Seattle University Law Review
The purpose of this Comment is to encourage the Washington legislature to amend the WPA and to suggest potential avenues for challenging the Act if it is not amended. Part II of this Comment provides the historical and legal context necessary to analyze and critique the WPA. Part III discusses the WPA's serious shortcomings and explores one potential constitutional challenge to the Act. Part IV contains recommendations for amending the WPA.
Two Distinct Roles/Bright Line Test, Donald N. Duquette
Two Distinct Roles/Bright Line Test, Donald N. Duquette
Articles
It is a mistake to try to develop a single lawyer role for children in child welfare cases which tries to accommodate their developing capacities from infants to articulate teens. The older child needs a traditional attorney; the youngest child, incapable of directing counsel, needs a substitute to define and advocate for his or her best interests. We should adopt different standards for the different advocate roles. Trying to define a single lawyer role for children of all ages and all capacities is an impossible task. A better approach towards recognizing and accommodating the child's developing cognitive abilities and judgment …
Michigan Family Law Research Resources: Review And Update, Barbara H. Garavaglia
Michigan Family Law Research Resources: Review And Update, Barbara H. Garavaglia
Articles
"Family law" includes topics relating to "marriage, divorce, adoption, child custody and support, child abuse and neglect, paternity, juvenile delinquency, and other domestic relations issues,"] including cohabitation and domestic violence. Michigan family law research continues to be facilitated by a combination of print and electronic research resources. As in other areas of law, web-based access to legal research resources in the realm of family law continues to improve and expand, following the general trend in legal publishing toward electronic publication. This article is primarily a review of the web-based resources provided by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), although …
But I Didn't Do Anything Wrong: Revisiting The Rights Of Non-Offending Parents In Child Protection Proceedings, Vivek Sankaran
But I Didn't Do Anything Wrong: Revisiting The Rights Of Non-Offending Parents In Child Protection Proceedings, Vivek Sankaran
Articles
Steven, a minor living with his mother, enjoyed a nurturing relationship with his father, Mark. He saw his father every weekend and looked forward to their time together. Mark looked for ways in which to stay involved in his child's life. Two days ago, the Department of Human Services (DHS) removed Steven from his mother's custody because, unbeknown to Mark, Stevens mother was selling drugs in the home. At the time of removal, the police did not inquire about the whereabouts of Stevens father; DHS immediately placed Steven in a foster home.
Out Of State And Out Of Luck: The Treatment Of Non-Custodial Parents Under The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children, Vivek Sankaran
Out Of State And Out Of Luck: The Treatment Of Non-Custodial Parents Under The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children, Vivek Sankaran
Articles
Courts handling child abuse and neglect cases face a daunting task. Within one to three days after a child is removed from his home, a court hearing must be held to determine whether court intervention and continued removal of the child is necessary. At this hearing, the court must sort through and evaluate the state's allegations and assess the various risks posed by placing the child in foster care or returning the child to one or both of his parents. Courts must weigh the heavy emphasis the law places on preserving the family unit against the equally paramount mandate to …
Addressing Putative Fathers In Child Protection Proceedings: Is 'John Doe' Still Alive?, Frank E. Vandervort, W. Lansat
Addressing Putative Fathers In Child Protection Proceedings: Is 'John Doe' Still Alive?, Frank E. Vandervort, W. Lansat
Articles
In practice, it seems, KH is not widely understood. Child protection petitions for temporary custody continue to name multiple men as the "father" of a child when there is a legal father. Some courts insist on terminating the parental rights of "John Doe" when no man has established paternity. After KH, are such actions necessary? Are they permissible?
Domestic Violence In Ghana: The Open Secret, Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Sue Shin, Kay Park, Lisa Vollendorf Martin
Domestic Violence In Ghana: The Open Secret, Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Sue Shin, Kay Park, Lisa Vollendorf Martin
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Justice, Access To The Courts, And The Right To Free Counsel For Indigent Parents: The Continuing Scourge Of Lassiter V. Department Of Social Services Of Durham., Bruce A. Boyer
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Intimate Homicide: Gender And Crime Control, 1880-1920, Carolyn B. Ramsey
Intimate Homicide: Gender And Crime Control, 1880-1920, Carolyn B. Ramsey
Publications
The received wisdom, among feminists and others, is that historically the criminal justice system tolerated male violence against women. This article dramatically revises feminist understanding of the legal history of public responses to intimate homicide by showing that, in both the eastern and the western United States, men accused of killing their intimates often received stern punishment, including the death penalty, whereas women charged with similar crimes were treated leniently. Although no formal "battered woman's defense" existed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, courts and juries implicitly recognized one--and even extended it to abandoned women who killed their unfaithful …