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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

Family Law Symposium: "Belonging, The Family, and Family Law"

Posted on December 31, 2010
The Marriage and Family Law Research Project is pleased to invite all interested scholars to attend a Symposium on Belonging, the Family, and Family Law that will convene in room 472 of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham...

A New Year's Eve Tradition

Posted on December 31, 2010
Feeling the pessure yet?! From The Washington Post: Whom you kiss [tonight] can set the course for a good year. Really. It's not magic - it's chemistry and neuroscience. And no matter how painstakingly you set the scene, in the...

The Global Baby

Posted on December 30, 2010
From the Wall Street Journal on international baby creation markets: In a hospital room on the Greek island of Crete with views of a sapphire sea lapping at ancient fortress walls, a Bulgarian woman plans to deliver a baby whose...

The Marriage Gap

Posted on December 30, 2010
A new CNN article by Leah Ward Sears considers the "marriage gap": Wilcox's study finds that over the last 30 years, among what the report calls "Middle Americans" (the 58% of moderately educated Americans who have a high school degree),...

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King & Batagol: "Enforcer, Manager or Leader? The Judicial Role in Family Violence Courts"

Posted on December 29, 2010
Michael King and Becky Batagol (Monash University Faculty of Law) have posted "Enforcer, Manager or Leader? The Judicial Role in Family Violence Courts" (33 Int'l J. Law & Psychiatry 406) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Judicial supervision of offenders...

Child Custody Case before MO Supreme Court

Posted on December 29, 2010
CNN recently profiled an interesting child custody case currently before the Missouri Supreme Court, with one party being the adoptive parents and the other being the biological mother who didn't approve the adoption and who is facing deportation to Guatemala...

Triger: "Fear of the Wandering Gay: Some Reflections on Citizenship, Nationalism, and Recognition in Same-Sex Relationships"

Posted on December 28, 2010
Zvi Triger (The College of Management Academic Studies School of Law) has posted "Fear of the Wandering Gay: Some Reflections on Citizenship, Nationalism, and Recognition in Same-Sex Relationships" (forthcoming International Journal of Law in Context) on SSRN...

Harding: "The Harmonisation of Private International Law in Europe: Taking the Character Out of Family Law?"

Posted on December 28, 2010
Maebh Harding (University of Portsmouth School of Law) has posted "The Harmonisation of Private International Law in Europe: Taking the Character Out of Family Law?" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: EU regulations are now in place providing for the...

Levit: "Reshaping the Narrative Debate"

Posted on December 28, 2010
Nancy Levit (University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law) posted Reshaping the Narrative Debate, 34 Seattle University Law Review (forthcoming 2011). Here is the abstract: In Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter, Joan Williams...

New Privacy in MT Family Law Cases?

Posted on December 27, 2010
From The Washington Post: HELENA, Mont. -- The Montana Supreme Court is considering restrictions to public access of certain information now available throughout the court system, including a proposal to seal all documents filed in family law cases except for...

Happy Holidays!!!

Posted on December 25, 2010

Family is the Reason for the Season...

Posted on December 24, 2010
...for most people. A new survey shows that almost half of Americans view Christmas as primarily a time for family, not religion. Read more here. MR

Call for Papers: Midwest Family Law Consortium

Posted on December 23, 2010
4TH ANNUAL MIDWEST FAMILY LAW CONSORTIUM at MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011 - FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011 NOTICE AND CALL FOR PAPERS FAMILY LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY The first decade of the 21st century...

300+ Haitian Children Headed to New French Homes

Posted on December 23, 2010
From The Washington Post: PARIS -- More than 300 Haitian children are preparing to fly to Paris with their new French adoptive families, just in time for the holidays. French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Saturday that 318 children had...

New EU Divorce Rules

Posted on December 22, 2010
From AFP: BRUSSELS ? Take a German and a Frenchwoman who marry in Italy, move to Portugal and then split up: under new EU rules on cross-border marriage adopted Monday the couple will be able to choose where to divorce....

Second Parent Adoption Struck Down by North Carolina Supreme Court

Posted on December 22, 2010
The North Carolina Supreme Court issued a ruling yesterday striking down the second parent adoption of a same sex couple. From The Charlotte Observer: North Carolina's highest court on Monday voided a state senator's adoption of her former domestic partner's...

A Father, but Not the Father

Posted on December 21, 2010
The New York Times recently ran a piece on the potential devastation caused when DNA testing proves a father is not the father. Read it here. MR Hat Tip: ER

Capers: "Home Is Where the Crime Is"

Posted on December 21, 2010
I. Bennett Capers (Hofstra Univ. School of Law) has posted "Home is Where the Crime Is" (forthcoming Michigan Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: There is a new vision of home that is beginning to gain ascendance, at...

Godsoe: "All in the Family: Towards a New Representational Model for Parents and Children"

Posted on December 20, 2010
Cynthia Godsoe (Brooklyn Law School) has recently posted All in the Family: Towards a New Representational Model for Parents and Children, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The presumption that parents act in their...

Fletcher & Sindelar: "The Effects of Family Stressors on Substance Abuse Initiation in Adolescence"

Posted on December 20, 2010
Jason Fletcher (Yale Univ. School of Public Health) & Jody Sindelar (Yale University School of Public Health; NBER) have posted "The Effects of Family Stressors on Substance Use Initiation in Adolescence" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Smoking and drinking...

Rosenblum, et. al: "Pregnant Man?: A Conversation"

Posted on December 19, 2010
Darren Rosenblum (Pace Law School), et. al have posted "Pregnant Man?: A Conversation" (22 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 207) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay includes a first-person narrative of having a child through surrogacy, responses....

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Match

Posted on December 18, 2010
As if your mom's matchmaking weren't enough, now there's the Korean government: From the WSJ: Korea?s ultra-low fertility rate (1.15 babies per woman) has driven policymakers to take drastic measures to get couples together. Last Saturday, a group of 60...

Smith & Robinson ?An Embarrassment of Riches or a Profusion of Confusion? An Evaluation of the Continued Existence of the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 in the Light of Prospective Domestic Partnerships Legislation in South Africa?

Posted on December 17, 2010
Bradley S. Smith & Robbie Robinson have posted An Embarrassment of Riches or a Profusion of Confusion? An Evaluation of the Continued Existence of the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 in the Light of Prospective Domestic Partnerships Legislation in...

Attractiveness

Posted on December 16, 2010
It is no secret that good looks help in dating and in job hunting, and perhaps everything in between. Interestingly, new research suggests that attractive men fare better than average-looking men in a job hunt, although attractive women did not...

Breger: "Making Waves or Keeping the Calm?: Analyzing the Institutional Culture of Family Courts Through the Lens of Social Psychology Groupthink Theory"

Posted on December 15, 2010
Melissa Breger (Albany Law School) has posted "Making Waves or Keeping the Calm?: Analyzing the Institutional Culture of Family Courts Through the Lens of Social Psychology Groupthink Theory" (20 Law & Psychology Rev. 55) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Women in Sweden

Posted on December 15, 2010
BBC recently ran an article on women in Sweden; read it here. MR

Puckett: "Rethinking Tax Priorities: Marriage Neutrality, Children, and Contemporary Families"

Posted on December 14, 2010
James Puckett (VAP at Seattle University School of Law) has posted "Rethinking Tax Priorities: Marriage Neutrality, Children, and Contemporary Families" (78 Cincinnati L. Rev. 1409) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Tax scholarship has long struggled with whether married taxpayers...

Let the Kids Sleep in Late on Saturday...

Posted on December 14, 2010
...because if they do, it's probably your fault genetically. New research on sleep suggests that not only are sleeping patterns genetic, but smart people sleep in late. From the Winnipeg Free Press: Morningness or eveningness are often genetically-based, according to...

Orentlicher: "Multiple Embryo Transfers: Time for Policy"

Posted on December 13, 2010
David Orentlicher (University of Iowa College of Law) has posted "Multiple Embryo Transfers: Time for Policy" (40 Hastings Center Report 12) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The birth of eight children to Nadya Suleman led to an outcry over...

Sterilizing Drug Addicts

Posted on December 13, 2010
From BBC News: Project Prevention is offering to pay �200 to any drug user in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales who agrees to be operated on. The first person in the UK to accept the cash is...

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