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

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FL Family Law Rules of Procedure

Posted on October 29, 2010
The Florida family law rules of procedure have recently undergone some changes. Read about it here. MR

Call for Papers: Symposium on "Divorcing the Multinational Family"

Posted on October 29, 2010
University of Oklahoma Law Review "DIVORCING THE MULTINATIONAL FAMILY" February 25, 2011 Norman, Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma Law Review is accepting scholarly papers related to issues in transnational divorce, such as international child custody and collection of international child...

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Posted on October 28, 2010
From mlive.com: GRAND RAPIDS -- For Chad and Barbie Soper, it's all in the numbers. A triple-dose of rare birth dates for their three children, who were born on 8/8/2008, 9/9/2009 and 10/10/2010. The Rockford couple's good fortune, capped with...

How Many Parents?

Posted on October 28, 2010
The Boston Globe ran a nice piece earlier this week on the optimal number of parents for a child, and whether the law should recognize more than two. Read it here. AC

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Getting Fees from the Opponents in a Divorce Case

Posted on October 27, 2010
A recent article in the Illinois Bar Journal addressed receiving fees from the opposing side in divorce. Read it here. MR

Huntington: "Familial Norms and Normality"

Posted on October 27, 2010
Clare Huntington (University of Colorado Law School) has posted "Familial Norms and Normality" (59 Emory Law Journal 1103) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Social norms exert a powerful influence on families. They shape major life decisions, such as whether...

Dailey: "Children's Constitutional Rights"

Posted on October 27, 2010
Anne Dailey (University of Connecticut) has posted "Children's Constitutional Rights" (forthcoming Minnesota Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article presents a developmental theory of children?s constitutional rights that focuses on the fundamental role of children?s rights in...

Securing a Maintenance Obligation in IL

Posted on October 26, 2010
An article in the September issue of the Illinois Bar Journal discusses whether a court may order a maintenance-paying spouse to obtain life insurance as security for the obligation: Illinois law once gave trial judges the discretion to order a...

The Future for Autistic Children

Posted on October 25, 2010
The Atlantic recently ran a story about the adulthood of autistic children: As new cases of autism have exploded in recent years?some form of the condition affects about one in 110 children today?efforts have multiplied to understand and accommodate the...

Joslin: "Protecting Children (?): Marriage, Gender, and Assisted Reproductive Technology"

Posted on October 25, 2010
Courtney Joslin (UC Davis School of Law) has posted "Protecting Children (?): Marriage, Gender, and Assisted Reproductive Technology" (83 So. Cal. L. Rev. 101) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court has declared that children should not be....

Shacking Up and the Divorce Rate

Posted on October 24, 2010
From Newsweek: Moving in together before marriage used to be associated with a higher risk for divorce. But now, as more unmarried couples than ever before decide to live under the same roof, do they face the same fate? Sociologists...

Chimps & Human Fertility

Posted on October 23, 2010
The Atlantic recently ran a story about the hardships of collecting chimp sperm, but its high promise of providing answers to questions like: ?Do the different sugars on the surfaces of chimp and human sperm impact fertility?? Furthermore, ?Perhaps the...

Cheating Death & Marriage

Posted on October 22, 2010
From Fox News: Yonni Barrios hit headlines last week not only because he was one of 33 men rescued after 69 death-defying days trapped in a collapsed mine in Chile, but because he requested both his wife of 28 years...

Katz: "'Wife Beating' and 'Uninvited Kisses' in the Supreme Court and Society in the Early Twentieth Century"

Posted on October 22, 2010
Elizabeth Katz (USDC Maryland) has posted "'Wife Beating' and 'Uninvited Kisses' in the Supreme Court and Society in the Early Twentieth Century" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper challenges the conventional narrative that domestic violence victims were ignored...

Davis: "The Game of Love: Polygamy, Default Rules, and Bargaining for Equality"

Posted on October 21, 2010
Adrienne D. Davis (Washington U. School of Law) has recently posted The Game of Love: Polygamy, Default Rules, and Bargaining for Equality on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Most legal scholarship about polygamy has approached it in one of two...

Marriage License Application Uncovers Family Secret

Posted on October 21, 2010
From the Associated Press: Melissa Reed was a proud fiancee applying for what she thought was a routine marriage license two weeks ago when she learned a stunning secret: She had been abducted as a child and living under an...

Favoring Mothers

Posted on October 20, 2010
In an editorial, one divorcing father in London laments the favoritism in family law towards the mother. Read it here. MR

Caceres-Delpiano & Giolito: "The Impact of Unilateral Divorce on Crime"

Posted on October 20, 2010
Julio Caceres-Delpiano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) & Eugenio Giolito (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Institute for the Study of Labor) have posted "The Impact of Unilateral Divorce on Crime" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Using data from the...

How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Handle a Child Support Case?

Posted on October 19, 2010
Maybe 40? From Peace FM Online: Oksana Grigorieva showed up to court this morning for a hearing in her child support case with Mel Gibson -- and wouldn't you know it ... she has a new lawyer! The new man...

Bacarra, et. al: "Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race"

Posted on October 19, 2010
Mariagiovanna Bacarra (Washington University Saint Louis), Allan Collard-Wexler (NYU School of Business), Leonardo Fellis (London School of Economics) & Leeat Yariv (California Institute of Technology) have posted "Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race" on SSRN...

The ?Cheats? Charter?

Posted on October 18, 2010
This summer, the Court of Appeal in London ruled that, in divorce proceedings, it was an invasion of privacy for documents or emails obtained by stealth to be admitted as evidence because it was an invasion of privacy. The judgment...

Call for Papers: Feminism, The University and Society

Posted on October 18, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS AND SAVE THE DATE CREATING CHANGE: FEMINISM, THE UNIVERSITY AND SOCIETY DATE: MARCH 11 &12, 2011 LOCATION: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, DUBLIN 4, IRELAND http://www.ucd.ie/ COME JOIN US IN DUBLIN, IRELAND AS FEMINISTS MEET TO DISCUSS THE RELATIONSHIP...

The Definition of Pregnancy

Posted on October 17, 2010
Interesting opinion piece on defining pregnancy from The Public Discourse: Liberals and conservatives sometimes spar over the definition of pregnancy. Some liberals define the term as meaning the period from implantation of an embryo in a mother?s womb forward...

Next Time, Skip the High Heels

Posted on October 16, 2010
From the Huffington Post: Teeter-totter all you want, but men apparently don't notice when a woman wears high heels, Time magazine reports. Researchers at the UK's Northumbria University studied men's reactions to women in heels versus women in flats and...

?One is the loneliest number, worse than two??

Posted on October 15, 2010
Slate recently ran a fantastic article entitled, ?Two Is the Magic Number,? which argues that creativity is maximized in pairs of people working together: But a burgeoning field has shown that, from the very first days of life, relationships shape...

Has CPS Outlived Its Usefulness?

Posted on October 15, 2010
From the NY Times: Child Protective Services investigated more than three million cases of suspected child abuse in 2007, but a new study suggests that the investigations did little or nothing to improve the lives of those children. Researchers examined...

Call for Articles ? The Scholar: St. Mary?s Law Review on Minority Issues

Posted on October 14, 2010
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues is currently accepting article submissions for its 2011 Symposium issue, ?Minorities in Family Law: Family Law as an Agent of Social Change and Empowerment for Minorities in the 21st Century.? The...

Florida Will Not Appeal Decision on Gay Adoption

Posted on October 14, 2010
Florida officials have announced that they do not plan to appeal last month's ruling striking down the FL gay adoption ban as unconstitutional: George Sheldon, secretary of the Department of Children & Families, announced Tuesday his agency will not appeal...

Divorce & Religion

Posted on October 13, 2010
CNN recently noted how the ability to divorce has impacted the development of religion in society, particularly in England. Read about it here. MR

Hafemeister: "If All you Have is a Hammer: Society?s Ineffective Response to Intimate Partner Violence"

Posted on October 13, 2010
Thomas L. Hafemeister (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted "If All You Have is a Hammer: Society?s Ineffective Response to Intimate Partner Violence" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: After millennia of condoning and even encouraging intimate partner...

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