Reconceiving the family
Subtitle: critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the law of family dissolution
By: edited by Robin Fretwell Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Robin Fretwell.; FitzGibbon, Scott Thomas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: Divorce -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Custody of children -- United States.; Child support -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Equitable distribution of marital property -- United States.; Divorce settlements -- United States.; Family_Law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond fault and no-fault in the law of marital dissolution / Lynn D. Wardle; title: A city without duty, fault or shame / Scott Fitzgibbon; title: Partners, caregivers, and the constitutional substance of parenthood / David Meyer; title: Custody law and the ALI's principles : a little history, a little policy, and some very tentative judgments / Robert J. Levy; title: Undeserved trust : reflections on the American Law Institute's Treatment of de facto "parents" / Robin Fretwell Wilson; title: Asymmetric parenthood / Katharine Baker; title: Paying to stay home : on competing notions of fairness and the imputation of income / Mark Strasser; title: The ALI property division principles : a model of radical paternalism? / John Gregory; title: Unprincipled family dissolution : the American Law Institute's recommendations for division of property / David Westfall; title: You and me against the world : marriage and divorce from creditors' perspective / Marie T. Reilly; title: ^^Back to the future : the perils and promise of a backward looking jurisprudence / June Carbone; title: Money as emotion and the distribution of wealth at divorce / Katharine Silbaugh; title: Solidifying the "no-fault" revolution : post modern marriage as seen through the lens of ALI's "compensatory payments" / Katherine Spaht; title: Domestic partnership and default rules / Margaret F. Brinig; title: Private ordering under the ALI principles / Martha Ertman; title: Marriage matters : what's wrong with the ALI's domestic partnership proposal / Marsha Garrison; title: Domestic partnership, implied contracts, and law reform / Elizabeth Scott; title: Premarital agreements in the ALI principles : the move towards abolition of state marriage laws / Jane adolphe; title: The ALI principles and agreements : seeking a balance between status and contract / Brian H. Bix; title: The principles on agreements and international law / Barbara Stark; title: ^A formula for fool's gold : the illustrative child support formula in chapter 3 of the American Law Institute's Principles of the law of family dissolution / Maura corrigan; title: A response to the principles' domestic partnership scheme / Jean Hoefer Toal; title: Individualism and responsibility / John Eekelaar.