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Fractured Bonds : Policing Whiteness and Womanhood Through Race-Based Marriage Annulments

Walker, Bela August - 2010

's potential racial taint, the court seemingly chooses to protect obedient women against their husbands, affirming marriage and …

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Statutory and Common Law Enforcement of Foreign Insolvency Judgments

Ho, Look Chan - 2011

This article argues that the enforcement in England in Re New Cap Reinsurance Corporation of an Australian monetary judgment rendered under Australian insolvency law does not sit easily with the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933. This is because the Foreign Judgments...

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Thorner v Major (2009) : Proprietary Estoppel and Inheritance

Mee, John - 2020

This chapter considers the landmark status of the House of Lords in Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18, understanding it as an example of story-telling in the law. The chapter explores the issues surrounding the equitable doctrine of proprietary estoppel, as it applies in particular in the context...

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Formalizing Gratuitous and Contractual Transfers : A Situational Theory

Hirsch, Adam J. - 2014

By tradition, gifts, wills, and contracts are formalized according to protocols established within each legal category. This Article examines the policies that underlie these "formalizing rules" and concludes that the utility of those rules depends fundamentally on the background conditions...

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Administering Marriage : Marriage-Based Entitlements, Bureaucracy, and the Legal Construction of the Family

Collins, Kristin A. - 2011

Today marriage-based entitlements are considered part and parcel of marriage itself. This was not always the case … the origins of public marriage-based entitlements to an underexamined and surprisingly broad-scale system of early … century and, as important, evidences the complex mutually constitutive relationship between marriage law and social provision …

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Marital Roles and Declining Marriage Rates

Ellman, Ira Mark - 2008

This essay is an updated, expanded and revised version of the second half of Divorce Rates, Marriage Rates, and the … declining marriage rates …

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Inheritance on the Fringes of Marriage

Hirsch, Adam J. - 2018

fringe categories of beneficiaries within the broader context of relationship theory …

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Incomplete Wills

Hirsch, Adam J. - 2013

This Article explores the problems that arise when a will fails to dispose of an individual's entire estate, so that she dies partially testate and partially intestate. The questions then raised include (1) whether provisions contained in the will purporting to redefine the individual's...

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Commitments and the marital match: the effect of alimony reform on assortative matching

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021

This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … reform that reduced the entitlements of eligible spouses and American Community Survey data on marriage and the …

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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce

Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

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