Throughout the medieval period, marriage was acknowledged by temporal rulers to be a religious matter governed by the ecclesiastic law of the Church which, to be sure, incorporated many principles of Roman law. Subsequent to the Reformation, the rulers of many European countries became disposed...

Economists increasingly connect legal changes to behavioral responses that many family-law experts fail to see. Incentives matter in families, which respond to changes in legal regulation. Changing incentive structures linked to family law have largely affected marriage, cohabitation and...

Congress created the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act to protect the economic security of former spouses of military personnel. One of the most significant property interests affording economic security to former spouses is the marital interest in retired pay to which both...

What’s in a name? Based on current family law and policy debates, the answer would seem to be: a whole lot. Today’s discussion of legal prohibitions of same-sex marriage abound with the assumption that language, in the form of names and labels, is deeply meaningful from a status perspective....

Eine neue Studie des ifo Instituts zeigt, dass Bundestagsabgeordnete von CDU/CSU, die in sicheren Wahlkreisen gewählt wurden, mit einer deutlich höheren Wahrscheinlichkeit gegen die Ehe für alle gestimmt haben als Abgeordnete aus umkämpften Wahlkreisen. Eine Erhöhung des Stimmenvorsprungs...