Inside the castle
Subtitle: law and the family in 20th century America
By: Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman
Contributors: Friedman, Lawrence Meir, 1930-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780691149820
Subjects: Domestic relations; Parent and child (Law); Marriage law; Social conditions; Children; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Tying the knot : marriage and promises to marry; title: Marriage and the state; title: Marriage, law, and society : a tangled web; title: Common-law marriage; title: The end of heart balm; title: Pt. 2. Anything goes : marriage in a permissive age; title: The rise of sexual freedom; title: Cohabitation; title: Same-sex relationships; title: Pt. 3. When the music stops : dissolving a marriage and the aftermath; title: Untying the knot : divorce and annulment; title: Dollars and sense : the economic consequences of divorce; title: Collateral damage : the children of divorce; title: Pt. 4. The old and the new generation; title: The extended family : elder law and the law of inheritance; title: Parents and children : rights and duties; title: Who do we belong to? Parentage and the law; title: Chosen people : adoption and the law.