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Family law issues explored by law professors.
By Barbara Glesner Fines, Robert E. Oliphant, and Nancy Ver Steegh (William Mitchell College of Law).

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:18:00

Gershuny: "The Combined Impact of US Laws on Single Mothers and Their Children"

Posted on October 13, 2010
Pamela Gershuny (Southeast Missouri State University College of Business) has posted "The Combined Impact of US Laws on Single Mothers and Their Children" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Flaws in TANF, child support enforcement, a regressive tax structure, wage...

Treating Kids as the Bee?s Knees

Posted on October 12, 2010
One college professor notes, as many have, ?I?ve been teaching university students for 50 years, and I can tell when one of my students comes from a home in which ?good? parenting takes place.? Read his observations here, which note...

Divorce Insurance

Posted on October 11, 2010
From The New York Times: The casualty insurance is designed to provide financial assistance in the form of cash to cover the costs of a divorce, such as legal proceedings or setting up a new apartment or house. It is...

Call for Papers: Conference on Applied Feminism

Posted on October 11, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS ? NEW DATE The University of Baltimore School of Law?s Center on Applied Feminism seeks submissions for its Fourth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference. This year?s theme is ?Applying Feminism Globally.? The conference date has changed from...

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IVF Creator Wins Nobel Prize

Posted on October 10, 2010
From the NY Times, about Robert G. Edwards winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine on October 4, 2010: He is, figuratively, the father of the technology that, literally, has allowed four million babies to be born over the past three...

Litigious Parents

Posted on October 09, 2010
From AP: CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? Elementary school playgrounds in one West Virginia county are losing their swing sets. Swings are being removed from Cabell County schools in southern West Virginia in part because of lawsuits over injuries. Cabell County schools...

Custody Battle

Posted on October 08, 2010
These custody battles are most unfortunate: From the Chicago Tribune: NEW ALBANY, Ind. ? The lawyer for a southern Indiana couple trying to adopt a 3-year-old boy who they've raised since birth says they've agreed to mediation with the child's...

10 Obscure U.S. Marriage Laws

Posted on October 08, 2010
Humorous piece from Woman's Day about 10 obscure U.S. marriage laws: read it here. My favorite is the rule on proof of manliness! AC

The TV Family

Posted on October 07, 2010
Last month, CNN ran a fun story about TV families here. MR

Call for Papers: University of Dayton Law Symposium on Custody

Posted on October 07, 2010
2011 Gilvary Symposium Call for Presenters Custody Through the Eyes of the Child January 21, 2010, University of Dayton School of Law We are proud to announce the 2011 Gilvary Symposium at the University of Dayton School of Law. The...

Divorce Lawyer Pays Client

Posted on October 06, 2010
After being paid $378,000, a divorce lawyer in the DC-area recently sued his former client for $500,000 in fees and interest. The client hired an expert that discredited the lawyer?s work, and the lawyer ended up settling the case by...

Surrogacy for Gay Couples in the News

Posted on October 06, 2010
ABC News recently spotlighted a surrogacy agency in California primarily serving gay and lesbian couples wanting to become parents: ...Growing Generations, a surrogacy agency based in Los Angeles ... has become the destination of choice for many gay families nationwide...

Biglaw Firms as Counsel in Divorce?

Posted on October 05, 2010
One author suggests that more biglaw firms will want to become involved in family law due to potential payouts. Read about it here. MR

Adelstein: "Single Mothers and Marriage Promotion: Considering the Consequences of Divorce"

Posted on October 05, 2010
Shirley Adelstein (Georgetown University) has posted "Single Mothers and Marriage Promotion: Considering the Consequences of Divorce" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Concerns about the relationship between family structure and poverty have led to the emergence of public policies aimed...

Marriage Rates

Posted on October 04, 2010
From the Wall Street Journal: Marriage rates among young adults have been dropping for decades. But data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau show that for the first time the proportion of people between the ages of 25 and 34...

Cashmore: "Children's Participation in Family Law Decision-Making: Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Children's Views"

Posted on October 04, 2010
Judith Cashmore (University of Sydney Faculty of Law) has posted "Children?s Participation in Family Law Decision-Making: Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Children?s Views" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore children?s views about their...

Father Sentenced for Child Support Arrears in Excess of $500,000

Posted on October 03, 2010
The story of one Michigan man's serious child support issues: The Muskegon man has fathered 23 children with 14 women, and is more than $533,000 in arrears in his child-support payments, according to the attorney general's office, which has been...

Something old, something blue, and something new--like a face?

Posted on October 02, 2010
Unbelievable?From the Hollywood Reporter: Exclu: In one of the most shocking reality TV ideas yet, E! has ordered a new series that crosses a wedding competition with extreme plastic surgery. The network is set to announce ?Bridalplasty,? where brides-to-be compete...

German Case on HIV Infection

Posted on October 01, 2010
From MyWay: DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) - A German court has found a girl-band singer guilty of causing bodily harm to an ex-boyfriend by having unprotected sex with him despite knowing she was infected with HIV but she won't spend any...

Vow Renewals as the New Marriage Trend

Posted on October 01, 2010
From the New York Times: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon did it earlier this year at their Beverly Hills Estate. This was the second vow renewal for the couple in as many years of marriage. To mark the occasion, he...

A Modern Salem

Posted on September 30, 2010
CNN recently ran a sad story about child-witch hunting in modern times. Read it here. MR

Kapai: "Minority Women: A Struggle for Equal Protection Against Domestic Violence"

Posted on September 30, 2010
Puja Kapai (Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong) has posted "Minority Women: A Struggle for Equal Protection Against Domestic Violence" (forthcoming Cambridge University Press) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Feminist legal scholars, long distraught over the failure of...

Rasley ?Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal?

Posted on September 29, 2010
A new book, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal, by lawyer and adventurer Jeff Rasley looks into the meaning of philanthropy in far-away locales. From the book?s description: ?They had no...

Charges for "Sister Wives" Stars?

Posted on September 29, 2010
An investigation of the television show "Sister Wives," which premiered Sunday on TLC, is underway: The stars of TLC's new show "Sister Wives" are under police investigation in Utah for a possible charge of felony bigamy. Police in Lehi, Utah,...

Prenups on the Rise

Posted on September 29, 2010
From CNBC: Prenups overall are on the rise: A whopping 73 percent of divorce attorneys say they?ve seen an increase in the pre-marital documents, according to a recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. What?s more, 52 percent...

20 Books on Domestic Violence

Posted on September 28, 2010
Christiancollegesanduniversities.com recently published an post entitled ?20 Books to Help Women through Domestic Violence.? Check it out here. MR

Technology & Family Law

Posted on September 27, 2010
A judge recently ordered a mom to arrange Skype visits between her children and their father as a condition of a long-distance move. Read more here. MR

Gregory: "Pet Custody: Distorting Language and the Law"

Posted on September 27, 2010
John DeWitt Gregory (Hofstra University School of Law) has posted "Pet Custody: Distorting Language and the Law" (Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 1, p. 35, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Pets or companion animals are the property...

Why The Hague Convention Isn't Saving International Adoption

Posted on September 26, 2010
Nice article highlighting a few flaws of the Hague convention on inter-country adoption: Two years ago this month, the US and Vietnam let lapse the three-year bilateral agreement that allowed Americans to adopt Vietnamese children. The US embassy in Hanoi...

Final Call for Papers

Posted on September 26, 2010
The final call for papers for the IV World Congress on Child and Adolescent Rights is this Sunday, October 3. See http://www.childrightscongress.org/ for details. MR

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