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Early State And Federal Responses To Coronavirus-Related School Closures, Jim Alrutz

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Broken Promises On Education And Illinois' Formula For Rectifying The Issue, Diana Arroyo

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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A Constitutional Right To An Education: Revisited, Andy Froelich

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Twice Exceptional Students Need Twice The Programming, Rebecca Jacobs

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Marriage Story: Ensuring The Interests Of The Child Are Represented In Domestic Relations Cases, Meghan Kasner

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Right To Unmarry: A Proposal, Brian L. Frye, Maybell Romero

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

When I say I'm in love, you better believe I'm in love, L-U-V.

[April 2, 2020] BLF: This is a marriage proposal in the form of a law review article. In this Article, I observe that Maybell Romero and I are in love. I want to marry her, and I believe she wants to marry me. At least I'll find out pretty soon. But we cannot marry each other right now, because we are both currently married to other people.

Maybell and I want to end our existing marriages, and our respective spouses have even agreed to divorce. But the …

Child Labor Laws In India And The Need For Change, Alexandra Spognardi

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Not All Violence In Relationships Is “Domestic Violence", Tamara L. Kuennen

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The article proceeds in four parts. Part I describes in more detail the work of Donileen Loseke, and Part II applies her methodology by taking stock of the constructs as they currently exist. Part III examines social science data available since Loseke published her study, demonstrating that the current construct reflects, in reality, only a subset of relationship violence and a subset of the people who experience it. Part IV examines whether the main service designed to help people experiencing relationship violence today—law—perpetuates, rather than challenges norms. I argue that it does the former, because legal decision makers, like the …

Mind The Gap: Technology As A Lifeline For Pro Se Child Custody Appeals, Katherine L.W. Norton

Duquesne Law Review

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"Grandfamilies" Amid The Opioid Crisis: An Increasing Reason To Update Pennsylvania's Outdated Intestacy Laws, Joanne L. Parise

Duquesne Law Review

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Domestic Relations, Barry B. Mcgough, Elinor H. Hitt, Andrew B. Mcclintock, Allison C. Kessler

Mercer Law Review

This Article addresses significant case law and legislative updates to Georgia domestic relations law that arose during the survey period from June 1, 2018 through May 31, 2019.

• Contract Rules
• Alimony
• Child Support
• Custody and Visitation
• Equitable Division
• Enforcement
• Attorney's Fees
• Appellate Practice

The Right Family, Noa Ben-Asher, Margot J. Pollans

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The family plays a starring role in American law. Families, the law tells us, are special. They merit, among others, tax deductions, testimonial privileges, untaxed inheritance, parental presumptions, and, over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court has expanded individual rights stemming from familial relationships. In this Article, we argue that family matters as much for when it is ignored as for when it is featured. We shed light on the use of the family in the law by contrasting policies in which the family is the key unit of analysis with others in which it is not. …

Marital Versus Nonmarital Entitlements, Raymond C. O'Brien

Scholarly Articles

This Article discusses the evolution of family structure and the ascendency of privacy, liberty, and self-determination. Partially in response, an array of nonmarital unions have become commonplace in the past fifty years in the United States. Cases reveal the insufficiency of remedies avail- able to these nonmarital couples at dissolution-even for those couples living in states willing to enforce express or implied nonmarital agreements. Strikingly, there are fewer remedies for nonmarital cohabitants at death.

Public policy mandates concern for all citizens, including the evolu- tion of individualized family structures formed by its citizens. The issue addressed in this Article is …

Unconstitutional Parenthood, Jeffrey A. Parness

Marquette Law Review

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In Memory Of Professor James E. Bond, Janet Ainsworth

Seattle University Law Review

Janet Ainsworth, Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law: In Memory of Professor James E. Bond.

Mandatory, Fast, And Fair: Case Outcomes And Procedural Justice In A Family Drug Court, Melanie Fessinger, Katherine Hazen, Jamie Bahm, Jennie Cole-Mossman, Roger Heideman, Eve Brank

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

Objectives: Problem-solving courts are traditionally voluntary in nature to promote procedural justice and to advance therapeutic jurisprudence. The Family Treatment Drug Court (FTDC) in Lancaster County, Nebraska, is a mandatory dependency court for families with allegations of child abuse or neglect related to substance use. We conducted a program evaluation examining parents’ case outcomes and perceptions of procedural justice to examine whether a mandatory problem-solving court could replicate the positive outcomes of problem-solving courts. Methods: We employed a quasi-experimental design that compared FTDC parents to traditional dependency court parents (control parents). We examined court records to gather court orders, compliance …

'Of Sound Mind And Body': A Call For Universal Drug Screening For All Newborns, Frank Vandervort, Vincent J. Palusci

Book Chapters

Substance abuse is a major medical and social problem. Estimates suggest that each year some 15 percent of the 4 million babies born in the United States are exposed to drugs or alcohol. Research demonstrates that exposure to these substances is harmful to the children in both the short term and across their developmental trajectory. This chapter summarizes the harms that might result from such prenatal exposure and considers the ways that both federal and state law respond to this. The chapter argues for universal drug testing of newborns in an effort to ascertain whether they have been prenatally exposed …

Existe-T-Il Un « Droit À L’Enfant » En Droit Québecois?, Elisabeth Beauchamp

Canadian Journal of Family Law

La notion de « droit à l’enfant » est souvent soulevée dans le discours public, bien qu’aucune disposition législative au Québec ne prévoie un tel droit à proprement parler. Notre étude propose une analyse de l’ensemble des développements récents du droit de la famille québécois pour déterminer si un « droit à l’enfant » sous-jacent peut s’y inférer. De manière plus particulière, l’analyse porte sur l’émergence possible d’un « droit à l’enfant » dans les développements jurisprudentiels et législatifs relatifs à l’adoption, à la procréation assistée et à la gestation pour autrui. Nous tentons de démontrer que la substance du …

Respecting And Protecting Transgender And Gender-Nonconforming Children In Family Courts, Claire Houston

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Family court judges are increasingly being asked to resolve parenting disputes involving conflict over a child’s gender expression or identity. These disputes ask whether it is in the best interests of children to support their gender nonconformity, including any decision to transition to a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth. Despite more of these cases coming before family courts, judges have little guidance on how to resolve these cases in the best interests of children. Drawing on medical and social science literature and reported decisions, and applying a robust theory of children’s participation rights, this article …

Icwa Downunder: Exploring The Costs And Benefits Of Enacting An Australian Version Of The United States' Indian Child Welfare Act, Marcia Zug

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Australian Indigenous Advocates have long sought the passage of Indigeous child-welfare legislation similar to the United States’s Indian Child Welfare Act. Recently, the Australian government has indicated it is receptive to the enactment of such legislation. However, an Australian version of the ICWA is not as simple as it sounds. The legal status of the Indigenous communities of Australia and American Indian tribes is vastly different thus, many of the ICWA’s provisions, particularly those based on a recognition of Indigenous sovereignty, would require significant modifications before they coud be applied in Australia. These modifications mean an Australian ICWA …