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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

Cahn and Carbone on "Red Families" and "Blue Families"

Posted on March 19, 2010
Naomi Cahn (George Washington University Law School) and June Carbone (UMKC School of Law) recently had a piece appear in the Christian Science Monitor in which they discuss research on the relation between divorce and teen pregnancy rates and residence...

Ristroph and Murray: Disestablishing the Family

Posted on March 18, 2010
Alice Ristroph (Seton Hall University School of Law) and Melissa Murray (University of California Berkeley School of Law) have posted "Disestablishing the Family" (forthcoming Yale Law Journal) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay explores what it would mean...

30 is the new 60?

Posted on March 18, 2010
Last month, the Wall Street Journal offered a very interesting article suggesting that the best science may be done by young scientists in their 20?s. Granted, the same paradigm does not apply to legal scholars, but the article may nonetheless...

New Meaning of Early Education

Posted on March 17, 2010
A study published in Psychological Science shows that fetuses regularly hearing two languages are more open to being bilingual. Read more about the study here. MR Hat Tip: Elizabeth Ryznar

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Lesbian Sergeant Discharged After Police Tell Military

Posted on March 17, 2010
The Associated Press is reporting the story of a sergeant outed by police after spying a marriage license during a search of the home she shared with her partner. Former Air Force sergeant Jene Newsome says she played by the...

Sparrow: ?Therapeutic Cloning and Reproductive Liberty?

Posted on March 16, 2010
Robert Sparrow has recently published Therapeutic Cloning and Reproductive Liberty, 34 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 102 (2009). Here is the abstract: Concern for ?reproductive liberty? suggests that decisions about embryos should normally be made by the persons who would...

Tragic Story of a Family Court Ruling Gone Wrong

Posted on March 16, 2010
A California judge has a tough haul for re-election after his decision refusing to grant a protective order ends in tragedy. The judge didn't believe the father was a threat and denied the mother's plea to keep him away from...

More CA Women Dying Due to Pregnancy

Posted on March 15, 2010
From California Watch: The mortality rate of California women who die from causes directly related to pregnancy has nearly tripled in the past decade, prompting doctors to worry about the dangers of obesity in expectant mothers and about medical complications...

Gender Determined at Birth or by Birth Certificate?

Posted on March 15, 2010
The latest news story on the question of whether gender (for marriage purposes) is determined at birth or by what is recorded on the birth certificate: Danielle Pauline Severson takes female hormones, dresses and acts like a woman and plans...

Koller: "Government as God: An Update on Federal Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns "

Posted on March 14, 2010
Dionne Koller (University of Baltimore School of Law) has posted "Government as God: An Update on Federal Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns" (forthcoming New England L. Rev.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Whether a severely impaired...

$30k for Nursing the Wrong Child?

Posted on March 13, 2010
That is the amount of damages a Chicago couple is seeking for briefly being given the wrong baby at the hospital following delivery. From the Chicago Sun-Times: The day after her son was born, Jennifer Spiegel was awakened about 4...

Babies? DNA Stored Indefinitely by the Government without Consent

Posted on March 12, 2010
A recent CNN report raises privacy concerns regarding children?s genetic information. From CNN: ?Newborn babies in the United States are routinely screened for a panel of genetic diseases. Since the testing is mandated by the government, it's often done without...

Hafemeister: "Castles Made of Sand? Rediscovering Child Abuse and Society?s Response "

Posted on March 12, 2010
Thomas Hafemeister (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted "Castles Made of Sand? Rediscovering Child Abuse and Society?s Response " (forthcoming Ohio North Univ. L. Rev.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It has long been recognized that stress,...

King: "U.S. Immigration Law and the Traditional Nuclear Conception of Family: Toward a Functional Definition of Family that Protects Children's Fundamental Human Rights "

Posted on March 11, 2010
Shani King (University of Florida College of Law) has posted "U.S. Immigration Law and the Traditional Nuclear Conception of Family: Toward a Functional Definition of Family that Protects Children's Fundamental Human Rights " (forthcoming Columbia Human Rights L...

Gottman & Silver: ?The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert?

Posted on March 11, 2010
I recently ran across an interesting empirical study of marriage, originally published in 1999. The book is John M. Gottman & Nan Silver?s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert...

Invest a Divorce Settlement...

Posted on March 10, 2010
...to avoid the dilemma facing Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills. From BankFiesta: According to multiple outlets, Heather Mills, ex-wife of Paul McCartney, has managed to burn through $54.5 million dollars in less than two years. Heather received the funds in...

Woodhouse: "A World Fit for Children is a World Fit for Everyone: Ecogenerism, Feminism, and Vulnerability "

Posted on March 10, 2010
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse (Emory School of Law) has posted "A World Fit for Children is a World Fit for Everyone: Ecogenerism, Feminism, and Vulnerability" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article explores the relationship between feminist theory and ecogenerist...

Time to Refinance Your Home?and Reduce Ex-Spouse?s Alimony

Posted on March 10, 2010
The UK Financial Times reports that bankers are using the current recession as a good opportunity to reduce their ex-wife?s alimony: City financiers who have seen bonuses slashed or lost jobs are flocking to the courts to seek a reduction...

The Effect of Military Deployment on Child Custody

Posted on March 09, 2010
Controversy is heating up over a bill pending in Congress which would preclude courts from considering possible military deployment of a parent when considering the best interest of the child in a custody case and would force courts to review...

Criminalizing Reckless Miscarriage in Utah Halted

Posted on March 09, 2010
From the New York Times: DENVER? A sweeping anti-abortion statute in Utah that would have allowed up to life in prison for a woman whose fetus died from her intentional or reckless behavior was withdrawn by its sponsor on Thursday...

Battle Over Daughter?s Religion

Posted on March 08, 2010
Last week, ?20/20? featured Joseph Reyes, a law student at John Marshall law school who was accused of violating a court order by exposing his daughter to Catholicism without his Jewish ex-wife?s consent. He had taken the girl to church...

Practicing Family Law = Big Money???

Posted on March 08, 2010
Sounds like it's good, at least for a select few, to be a family law attorney these days. [Los Angeles Dodgers owners] Frank and Jamie McCourt's divorce could become one of the costliest splits in California history, with attorneys and...

The Pressures Facing Working Women

Posted on March 07, 2010
The Washington Post reports on South Korean women's choice to put off marriage and family in order to work, and the corresponding birth rate decline. In a full-page newspaper advertisement headlined "I Am a Bad Woman," Hwang Myoung-eun explained the....

Family Law Writing Competition

Posted on March 06, 2010
A reminder that Hofstra Law School and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts are sponsoring the annual Family Law Writing Competition. Submissions by law students are due March 15, 2010. Cash prizes. Read the details here. MR

First Ovarian Transplant to Produce Two Babies

Posted on March 05, 2010
A woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue, the first time the complex treatment has produced two babies from separate pregnancies. Claus Yding Andersen, the Danish doctor who treated the...

Wedding Bell Blues

Posted on March 05, 2010
Some may say that wedding prices are a scam, but now an undeniable wedding scam has emerged. From the Boston.com: Boston policy said today they feared thousands of people will descend on the Hynes Convention Center later this week for...

Oldham: "Everything is Bigger in Texas Except the Community Property Estate - Must Texas Remain a Divorce Haven for the Rich? "

Posted on March 04, 2010
J. Thomas Oldham (University of Houston Law Center) has posted "Everything is Bigger in Texas Except the Community Property Estate - Must Texas Remain a Divorce Haven for the Rich? " on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article compares...

Stay of DC Same-Sex Marriage Denied

Posted on March 04, 2010
Ruthann Robson of the Constitutional Law Prof blog notes that ?the United States Supreme Court has deferred deciding on constitutional challenges to same-sex marriage in DC.? She notes that, as Circuit Justice for the DC Circuit, Chief Justice Roberts refused...

Catholic Charities Refuses Health Coverage to Spouses of New Employees

Posted on March 03, 2010
Timed to coincide with today's legalization of same sex marriage in Washington, D.C., the Catholic church is taking a hard line in an effort to remain "faithful to its teachings." Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social...

Fournier: ?Flirting with God in Western Secular Courts: Mahr in the West?

Posted on March 03, 2010
Pascale Fournier has posted Flirting with God in Western Secular Courts: Mahr in the West, 4 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 67 (2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Through the journey of one symbolic legal institution...

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