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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: April 01, 2011 at 15:18:00

Arkes & Shen: "For Better or for Worse, But How About a Recession?"

Posted on December 12, 2010
Jeremy Arkes & Yu-Chu Shen have posted "For Better or for Worse, But How About a Recession?" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In light of the current economic crisis, we estimate hazard models of divorce to determine how state...

'Tis the Season for...

Posted on December 11, 2010
...breakups?! Or so say facebook data. From CNN: In the talk, McCandless said he and a colleague scraped 10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases "breakup" and "broken up." They found two big spikes on the calendar for breakups. The...

Dishion & Tipsord: "Peer Contagion in Child and Adolescent Social and Emotional Development"

Posted on December 10, 2010
Thomas Dishion & Jessica Tipsord (University of Oregon) have posted "Peer Contagion in Child and Adolescent Social and Emotional Development" (62 Annual Review of Psychology 189) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this article, we examine the construct of...

Babies' e-Footprints

Posted on December 10, 2010
This is not surprising to me at all, especially during the holiday season: From CNN: Thanks to the ubiquity of photo-sharing websites like Facebook, 82 percent of children in 10 Western countries have a digital footprint before the age of...

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Family Law Sees Its First "Lawsuit Lenders"

Posted on December 09, 2010
From the NY Times: Michelle Pont and her husband amassed millions of dollars in properties and investments from a freight-hauling business that they started with a single stake-bed truck in 1991. They bought a four-bedroom home, then a second home,...

Superwomen

Posted on December 09, 2010
An interesting article from The New York Times: Courtesy of the state, French women seem to have it all: multiple children, a job and, often, a figure to die for. What they don?t have is equality: France ranks 46th in...

To Blend or Not to Blend?

Posted on December 08, 2010
Interesting piece from the NY Times on blending, or choosing not to blend, families: BEGIN with one formerly married couple and an amicable divorce. (Don?t snort, it happens.) Add children, maybe two or three. Give each former spouse a new...

Bix: ?Private Ordering and Family Law?

Posted on December 08, 2010
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has posted Private Ordering and Family Law, Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (forthcoming 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Until recently in American family law (and the family law...

We Still Believe

Posted on December 07, 2010
From CNN on the role education plays in attitudes about marriage: The 2010 edition of "The State of Our Unions" -- a report on attitudes toward marriage -- indicates highly educated Americans are "embracing a pro-marriage mindset" even as middle...

Can it really be THAT bad out there?

Posted on December 07, 2010
...that you have to marry yourself? That's what a Taiwanese woman did. Read about it here. MR

Choudhury: "Exporting Subjects: Globalizing Family Law Progress Through International Human Rights"

Posted on December 06, 2010
Cyra Akila Choudhury (Florida International University College of Law) has posted "Exporting Subjects: Globalizing Family Law Progress Through International Human Rights" (32 Michigan J. of Int'l Law) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines the global export of...

Recession Increases Appreciation for Family

Posted on December 06, 2010
From Bloomberg Businessweek: FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Recession-linked job insecurity has many Americans questioning the sacrifices they make for work, such as having less time for family, leisure and self-improvement activities, a new study suggests...

Skype Marriage Ceremony Invalid

Posted on December 05, 2010
A Texas couple's plans to use Skype to avoid Texas' same-sex marriage ban has proved unsuccessful: A homosexual couple from Texas in the US thought they made history earlier this year by becoming the first gay couple to tie the...

Cuddle in the Skies

Posted on December 04, 2010
From NBC LA: If you're flying from Los Angeles to New Zealand, you could soon be traveling much more comfortably. Air New Zealand will offer customers the chance to purchase seats that can turn into couches or beds. According to...

Kleven: ?Federalizing Public Education?

Posted on November 26, 2010
Thomas Kleven (Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law) has posted Federalizing Public Education, 55 Villanova Law Review 369 (2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article assesses the case for federalizing public education in the United...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Posted on November 25, 2010

Happy Meals No Longer As Happy

Posted on November 24, 2010
This story has dominated the media recently, but, for me, it has triggered very fond memories of happy meals and their toys--and the parental autonomy that allowed me to have them. From Yahoo! News: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? San Francisco...

Beekman: "Same-Sex Second-Parent Adoption and Intestacy Law: Applying the Sharon S. Model of 'Simultaneous' Adoption to Parent-Child Provisions of the Uniform Probate Code"

Posted on November 24, 2010
Jason Carey Beekman has posted "Same-Sex Second-Parent Adoption and Intestacy Law: Applying the Sharon S. Model of 'Simultaneous' Adoption to Parent?Child Provisions of the Uniform Probate Code" (96 Cornell L. Rev.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Sarah, an eight-year-old...

Coan: "Assisted Reproductive Equality: An Institutional Analysis"

Posted on November 24, 2010
Andrew B. Coan (University of Wisconsin Law School) has posted "Assisted Reproductive Equality: An Institutional Analysis" (forthcoming Case Western Reserve Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Should the constitutional right to procreative liberty extend to assisted reproductive technologies?...

Saving for College

Posted on November 23, 2010
Last month, TaxProf Blog had an interesting post summarizing how Americans save for their kids' college education. Read it here. MR

Announcement: For Signature, Law Prof Amicus Brief in Adoption Case

Posted on November 22, 2010
Colleagues, Another disrupted adoption case has arisen, and I am soliciting support for an amicus brief. There is in this case the usual prospect of a biological father forcing the separation of a child (two and a half years old)...

Mossman & Shoemaker: "Incompetence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking Up Is Odd to Do"

Posted on November 22, 2010
Douglas Mossman (Univeristy of Cincinnati College of Law) & Amanda Shoemaker have posted "Incompetence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking Up is Odd to Do"(84 St. John's L. Rev. 117) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The law has...

Alimony Expanded in Quebec

Posted on November 21, 2010
From The Vancouver Sun: MONTREAL ? A groundbreaking decision from Quebec's Court of Appeal opens the door for common-law partners to collect alimony, affecting about 1.2 million Quebecers and bringing the province in line with the rest of the country...

All Female Species That Clones Itself

Posted on November 20, 2010
Warning: This CNN story is not for the faint-hearted: Researchers have identified a previously undocumented species of all-female lizard in the Mekong River delta that can reproduce itself by cloning, and the story of how it was discovered is almost....

Show Me the Money...

Posted on November 19, 2010
Wrong movie, right sentiment: Above the Law recently published an interesting post about the efforts of Michael Douglas's ex-wife to collect money off his Wall Street 2 movie. Read about it here. MR

A Royal Engagement

Posted on November 19, 2010
Let's add to the media frenzy surrounding Kate & William's engagement by pointing out that it has brought much attention to the English premarital agreement, which is entering a new era of enforceability in the UK. From Business & Law:...

"Birth or Not" Website

Posted on November 19, 2010
The internet has been buzzing with the following story, with many suggesting it cannot possibly be true: From Star Tribune: A suburban Twin Cities couple touched off an Internet frenzy Thursday with their "birth or not" website -- an online...

20-Year-Old Frozen Embryo Yields Baby

Posted on November 18, 2010
From My Fox New York: NewsCore - A healthy baby boy was born from an embryo frozen for almost 20 years in what was hailed Sunday as scientific breakthrough that could allow women to start families much later in life....

Call for Papers: Midwest Family Law Consortium

Posted on November 18, 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...

Canadian Surrogacy Case Sparks Intense Debate

Posted on November 18, 2010
A recent case making its way through the Canadian appellate process is renewing the legal and moral debate about surrogacy arrangements: The deal was signed; the sperm was collected; the baby was conceived. All the usual steps in the surrogate...

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