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By Barbara Glesner Fines, Robert E. Oliphant, and Nancy Ver Steegh (William Mitchell College of Law).

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Last Entry: May 20, 2013 at 05:30:00

Windsor v. United States

Posted on May 20, 2013
From Angelique Devaux, writing for I-CONnect: To marry or tax me. This could be the modern Shakespeare quote heard in the oral arguments last March 27th at the US Supreme Court in the pending case Windsor v. United States. But...

Jones "Judges, Family Law, Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia"

Posted on May 18, 2013
Elizabeth N. Jones (Western State College of Law) has posted her article Judges, Family Law, Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia, pp. 626-629, Robert E. Emery, ed., 2013, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is a chapter in an...

Movie Review

Posted on May 18, 2013
From Time: When Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) clears customs at de Gaulle Airport, his estranged wife Marie (Bèrénice Bejo) speaks to him urgently on the other side of a glass partition. They communicate with sign language and words the audience can?t...

No-Fault Divorce

Posted on May 16, 2013
From the Washington Times: No one can be happy with the high divorce rate in the United States, not even a family law attorney like me. Iowa legislators think making divorce more difficult by becoming the first state to prohibit...

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Same-Sex Marriage in Foreign Jurisdictions

Posted on May 15, 2013
From Angelique Devaux, writing for the Jurist: In a time when France has lost its fame for crusading for human rights, "marriage for all" has been the popular name given to same-sex marriage by the French Socialists' impetus in the...

Same-Sex Marriage in Minnesota

Posted on May 14, 2013
From the Chicago Tribune: MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Governor Mark Dayton on Tuesday made Minnesota the nation's 12th state to allow same-sex couples to marry and only the second in the Midwest, signing a bill on the steps of the state...

Guest Post by Christine Maddox: 5 Ways Family Law Attorneys Use Social Media in Court

Posted on May 13, 2013
Have you ever heard the saying, "What goes on the Internet, stays on the Internet?" In today's world, no words have ever been truly spoken. It's this persistent nature that has lawyers and law enforcement perusing social media websites in...

Posted on May 12, 2013

Wedding Planning with Divorced Parents

Posted on May 11, 2013
From the New York Times: For some couples, deciding where to seat narcoleptic Uncle Reginald is the least of their wedding planning worries. Those with divorced parents are assured of having quite a few more hours of anxiety as they...

Same-Sex in Delaware

Posted on May 10, 2013
From Jurist: Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed a same-sex marriage bill into law on Tuesday, making Delaware the eleventh US state to legalize same-sex marriage, and the second to do so in the past week. Read more here. MR Hat...

Persad: "What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa)"

Posted on May 09, 2013
Govind Persad (University of Pennsylvania) posted "What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa)," 22 Law & Sexuality (2013), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Citizenship and marriage are legal statuses that generate numerous privileges and responsibilities...

Fault vs. No-Fault Divorce

Posted on May 08, 2013
From Huffington Post: "He slept with his secretary." "Except for spending all of my money, she never did a thing for the kids or our marriage." "I'm taking everything, including the kitchen sink!" Emotional reactions like these are extremely common...

Divorce in China

Posted on May 07, 2013
From Time: Long queues of happy couples waiting to get married might be a common sight in Las Vegas. But lines of happily married couples waiting to get divorced? Only in China. In major cities across the country last month,...

Kids' College After Divorce

Posted on May 06, 2013
From US News: When Mary Thate and her now ex-husband divorced, she had no idea where her children would go to college. As a couple, they had put aside money for their three children's college education. Early on in the...

Sharia Law in Florida

Posted on May 04, 2013
From the Palm Beach Post: Florida lawmakers are poised to pass a controversial law banning courts from using foreign law, after a split Senate committee signed off on the measure. The bill (SB 58) would ban courts or other administrative...

Children's Rights in UK

Posted on May 03, 2013
From Family Law Week: In a judgment which strongly upheld children's rights under the UNCRC, Lord Justice Moses (sitting with Mr Justice Parker) has held that the UK government's practice of treating 17 year olds as adults, the failure to...

Child Support in England

Posted on May 02, 2013
From Family Law Week: The Child Support system has been in a state of continuous revolution since its inception, and this shows no sign of stopping. A somewhat telling example of this is the name. In 2008 the Child Support...

Second Marriages More Successful?

Posted on May 01, 2013
From the Marriage Foundation: Second Marriages: Triumph of decision over hope? It is often assumed that second marriages are riskier than first marriages - ?The triumph of hope over experience? as popularised by Samuel Johnson in 1791. A new analysis...

Yablon-Zug: "Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Two and a Half Ways to Destroy Indian Law"

Posted on April 30, 2013
Marcia Anne Yablon-Zug (University of South Carolina School of Law) has posted her article "Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Two and a Half Ways to Destroy Indian Law" (forthcoming Michigan Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: On April...

Infographic on Child Support

Posted on April 30, 2013
See a great infographic on child support here. MR

Divorce with Technology

Posted on April 27, 2013
From the Wall Street Journal: Even the divorce process is getting easier thanks to technology. Meet Wevorce, a startup coming out of esteemed startup ?school? Y Combinator. It?s an online service that breaks the process of getting a divorce into...

Divorce in North Carolina

Posted on April 26, 2013
From the Charlotte Observer: A pair of Republican lawmakers want to make it harder to get a divorce in North Carolina by making estranged couples wait longer and go to counseling. The Healthy Marriage Act would extend to two years...

For Sale

Posted on April 25, 2013
From the New York Times: Lucky are the few who move out of their houses simply because they have tired of the view or suddenly possess the means to trade up. More often, it is a change in life circumstances...

FMLA

Posted on April 25, 2013
People in support of family-friendly workplace policies are continuing to speak out about the shortcomings of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), ?the only federally mandated policy covering families in the workplace.? For instance, the FMLA only applies to...

Divorce on Finances

Posted on April 24, 2013
This article here outlines five (sometimes unexpected) ways in which divorce can impact your finances: legal expenses, childcare expense(s), taxes, retirement planning, and insurance. MR

Kids of Divorced Parents Smoke More

Posted on April 23, 2013
From the Atlantic: Out of 19,000 U.S adults, the odds of having smoked 100 or more cigarettes increased by 48 and 39 percent for sons and daughters, respectively, of separated or divorced parents. Read more here. MR

Same-Sex Divorce

Posted on April 22, 2013
From Forbes: Among the issues raised by the gay marriage debate is tax equality. Yet the right to file joint tax returns is nothing compared to what happens when a relationship dissolves. When a married couple splits, there?s no limit...

Adult Adoption Nullified

Posted on April 20, 2013
From USA Today: A Florida appeals court has nullified a polo mogul's adoption of his 42-year-old girlfriend in an apparent bid to tap his children's trust fund and shield his assets from the family of a student he killed in...

Biggest Divorce Settlement in History?

Posted on April 19, 2013
From Forbes: Fast forward to 2013, when a prenuptial agreement is again at the center of a very public billionaire divorce. This time, the jilted wife in question could get, well, ?everything?, or near enough: the biggest settlement in history,...

Justice Sotomayor Discusses Marriage and Divorce

Posted on April 18, 2013
From the Huffington Post: After graduating from Princeton University, Sonia Sotomayor married her high school sweetheart, Kevin Noonan. Seven years later, the couple divorced. In this clip from her sit-down with Oprah for "Oprah's Next Chapter," Supreme Court justice Sotomayor...

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