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Adoption
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Andrea Carroll on Adoption and Payment of Birth Mother Living Expenses
Andrea Beauchamp Carroll (Louisiana State University Law Center) has posted Re-Regulating the Baby Market: A Call for a Ban on Payment of Birth Mother Living Expenses on SSRN. Here is…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Op-Ed Piece on the Incongruences between Adoption and Commerical Reproduction
NY Times (Op-Ed): The Birds and the Bees (via the Fertility Clinic), by Ross Douthat:If you want to adopt a child in the United States, you’ll face an array of…
Family Law Prof Blog
Appell: “Reflections on the Movement Toward a More Child-Centered Adoption”
By Family Law
Annette Ruth Appell (Washington University School of Law in St. Louis) has posted Reflections on the Movement Toward a MoreChild-Centered Adoption, Western New England Law Review (forthcoming) onSSRN. Here is the…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Obstacles Same-Sex Couples Face When Moving to a Non-Recognition State
The recognition of same-sex marriage in a just a few states has created a number of legal obstacles for same-sex couples who marry in a state that recognizes their union…
Family Law Prof Blog
Carroll: “Re-Regulating the Baby Market: A Call for a Ban on Payment of Birth Mother Living Expenses”
By Family Law
Andrea Beauchamp Carroll (Louisiana State University, BatonRouge) has posted Re-Regulating the Baby Market: ACall for a Ban on Payment of Birth Mother Living Expenses, Kansas Law Review(forthcoming) on SSRN. Here…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Arkansas Court: State Constitutional Ballot Initiative Banning Adoption by Unmarried Couples Unconstitutional
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Arkansas Act One, passed by the voters in November 2008 prohibits cohabiting same-sex couples and (unmarried) heterosexual couples from becoming foster or adoptive parents. Relying on the state constitution, Judge…
Family Law Prof Blog
Incarceration Does Not Toll Time Under IL Adoption Act
By Family Law
TheIllinois Supreme Court, reversing the appellate court, recently held that,under the Adoption Act, the time for a parent to make reasonable progresstoward return of child was not tolled by parent’s…
Lancaster Law Blog
Legal Risk in Adoption
By Holly Filius
Recently, WITF aired a three part series on adoption which highlighted how important permanency is for children, particularly those children who are often perceived to be unadoptable because of their…
The Faculty Lounge
Baby Markets Is Here!
Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families, edited by Michele Bratcher Goodwin (University of Minnesota), is available from Cambridge University Press. Contributors include: Michele Goodwin, Martha Ertman,…
South Carolina Adoption Law Blog
Putative Father Registry: Fathers Step-up or Shut-up
The text below is extracted from www.justia.com and gives a great summary of a U.S. Supreme Court Case involving unwed fathers' rights and the putative father registry. After reading this case,…