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Parentage
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Family Law Prof Blog
Cahn: “The ART of Parentage”
By Family Law
Naomi Cahn has posted to SSRN her abstract for The ART of Parentage, forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law (James G. Dwyer ed., 2018) (ebook). Here…
Family Law Prof Blog
Cahn: “The ART of Parentage”
By Family Law
Naomi Cahn has recently published The ART of Parentage in The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law, edited by James G. Dwyer. Here is the abstract:The world of reproductive…
Texas Trusts, Estates and Taxes
Who’s Your Daddy-Parentage in the age of Sperm Donation and Ancestry.Com
It is happening with more and more frequency...someone knocks on the door and announces him or her self as the child of the man answering the door. DNA and the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Margalit: “Determining Legal Parentage: Between Family Law and Contract Law”
By Family Law
Yehezkel (Hezi) Margalit has just published the book Determining Legal Parentage: Between Family Law and Contract Law. Here is the abstract:The last few decades have witnessed dramatic changes affecting the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Australian High Court to Determine Legal Parentage of a Child Born via Sperm Donation
By Family Law
From The Conversation:The family courts have historically treated legal parentage as a question of who has “begotten or borne” a child. But increasingly complex family situations created as a result…
Family
After the Breakup: Same Sex Couples with Children
For most couples with children, a breakup in their relationship does not equate to losing their children. However, when it comes to same sex couples, particularly those who never married,…
Family Law Prof Blog
Parness: “Faithful Parents: Choice of Childcare Parentage Laws”
By Family Law
Jeffrey A. Parness has posted to SSRN his paper Faithful Parents: Choice of Childcare Parentage Laws, Mercer Law Review (forthcoming 2019). Here is the abstract:In July 2017, the National Conference…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Extending Voluntary Acknowledgements of Parentage to Female Same-Sex Partners
By Tracy Thomas
Jessica Feinberg, A Logical Step Forward: Extending Voluntary Acknowledgments of Parentage to Female Same-Sex Couples, 30 Yale J. Law & Feminism 97 (2018) Under current law, stark differences exist between different-…
Family Law Prof Blog
New Frontier in family law
By Family Law
From National Post:In what is believed to be a legal first in Canada, a court in Newfoundland and Labrador has recognized three unmarried adults as the legal parents of a…
Family Law Prof Blog
Carbone & Madeira: “The Role of Agency: Compensated Surrogacy and the Institutionalization of Assisted Reproduction Practices”
By Family Law
June Carbone & Jody Lynee Madeira have posted to SSRN: The Role of Agency: Compensated Surrogacy and the Institutionalization of Assisted Reproduction Practices, Washington Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 7,…