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Adoption
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
10th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Decision Striking Down Oklahoma’s Adoption Invalidation Law
Lambda Legal reports on an August 3, 2007 victory:In a 35-page decision, a panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected the Oklahoma Department of…
Family Law Prof Blog
Case Law Development: Adoption of Parent Does Not Sever Grandparent’s Ties to Grandchildren
By Family Law
The Indiana Court of Appeals held that if a parent is adopted, that adoption does not sever the grandparent's ties to the parent's children. In this case, grandmother had been…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Margaret F. Brinig: “The One-Size Fits All Family”
Margaret F. Brinig, a family law professor at Notre Dame Law School, has posted "The One-Size Fits All Family" on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Family policy and the law based on…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Caitlin Flanagan on “Abortion and the Bloodiness of Being Female”
In The Sanguine Sex (Atlantic Monthly, 5/07), Caitlin Flanagan reviews two books on abortion and unintended pregnancy: Angela Bonavoglia's The Choices We Made and Ann Fessler's The Girls Who Went…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Evangelicals start adoption push
From The Sky Valley Journal, by Eric Gorski (AP): Prominent evangelical Christians are urging churchgoers to strongly consider adoption or foster care, not just out of kindness or biblical calling…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
An Abortion, or $500?
Via Reuters/CNN.com:A Texas legislator has proposed that pregnant women considering abortion be offered $500 not to end their pregnancies. Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick, who also is a conservative radio…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
Woman’s Search for Her Birth Mother Leads to Share of Jell-O Fortune
When reading the linked-to story keep two Florida-law points in mind. As I wrote about here, in Florida, adults can be adopted, and for the purpose of intestate succession by…
Family Law Prof Blog
Case Law Development: Preference for De-Facto Parent Applies in Adoption Case rather than Placement with Relatives
By Family Law
The California Court of Appeals weighed the application of preferences for relatives versus caregivers in child protection cases in deciding whether a 10-year-old girl should be removed from the home…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Adult adoptee seeks share of IBM fortune
Family Law Prof Blog
Adopted Partner as Heir to Estate
By Family Law
"On an island liberally sprinkled with the affluent and well-connected members of such clans as Bush, du Pont, Rockefeller and Cabot, the Watson family occupies a special place. The family,…