Merle H. Weiner

A Parent-Partner Status for American Family Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes a new 'parent-partner' legal status emphasizing obligations of parents to each other and to their children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 660
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1092g
• ISBN-13: 9781107088085
• ISBN-10: 1107088089
• Artikelnr.: 42556736

Autorenporträt

Merle H. Weiner is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. She is the author of A Parent-Partner Status for American Family Law (Cambridge University Press 2015). Professor Weiner is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Cambridge University (LL.M.). She has been a parent-partner with Tom Lininger for the last eighteen years. They have two children.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The disconnect between the facts and the law
2. The absence of the 'parent-partner' status
3. The inadequacy of existing constructs
4. Reform efforts: slowly moving forward
5. The new status in theoretical perspective
6. The benefits of the new status for children
7. The benefits of the new status for the community
8. Ambitions for the new status
9. New non-monetary obligations
10. A new relationship work obligation
11. New obligations with financial implications
12. Possible concerns about the status.