Title: The marriage contract : spouses, lovers, and the law /
Authors: Weitzman, Lenore J.
Publisher: Free Press ; Collier Macmillan,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Husband and wife United States; Prenuptial agreements United States.; Unmarried couples Legal status, laws, etc. United States.
Contents: Part I: The Legal Tradition: Terms of the Traditional Marriage Contract -- 1. The Husband Is Head of the Family -- 2. The Husband's Responsibility for Support -- 3. The Wife's Domestic Responsibility -- 4. The Responsibility for Children -- Part II: Legal Assumptions Versus Social Reality -- 5. The Lifelong Commitment -- 6. First Marriage, No Remarriage -- 7. Separate Roles for Husband and Wife -- 8. The White Middle-Class Bias -- 9. One Man, One Woman-No Exceptions -- Part III: The Alternative: Marital and Nonmarital Contracts -- 10. The Case for Intimate Contracts -- 11. Topics and provisions for intimate contracts -- 12. Case Studies: Ten Contracts Within and in -- Part IV: Contracts and the Evolving Law -- 13. Contracts Between Husbands and Wives -- 14. Living Together Without a Contract: Social -- 15. To Marvin and beyond: Contracts between unwed cohabitants