This article explores how federal family law, specifically the Social Security Act, continues to impose severe marriage penalties on persons with disabilities. It also addresses anomalies in state support laws where a parent — or the dependent child — is receiving federal disability benefits

Obergefell emphasizes the importance of marriage for dignity and emotional well-being as well as recognizing all the economic and legal benefits that accrue to marriage. The marriage equality movement in general aims to end economic disadvantage and cultural stigma towards nontraditional...

Childhood disability has enormous impacts on family members. Limited by data, previous literature faces challenges in measurement and identification and focuses primarily on maternal labor outcomes. Using administrative records from the National Health Insurance Research Database from Taiwan, we...

In this article, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...

In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...