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Family Law Prof Blog
McLaughlin in AZ
By Family Law
From NCLR:The Supreme Court of the United States announced today that it will not review the decision in McLaughlin v. McLaughlin, an Arizona Supreme Court case that found a woman to…
Family Law Prof Blog
Courts Acknowledging Third Parent
By Family Law
From NBC San Diego:Sixteen-year-old Madison's family clustered for a photo in a California courtroom, commemorating the day it finally became official that she has three parents.The adults she calls Mom,…
Family Law Prof Blog
Parness: “Marriage Equality, Parentage (In)Equality”
By Family Law
Jeffrey A. Parness (Northern Illinois University - College of Law) has recently posted on SSRN his new article Marriage Equality, Parentage (In)Equality, 32 Wisconsin Journal of Law Gender and Society __ (Fall…
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
Who says a child's two parents have to be a "couple"? Not Canada
By nancypolikoffbeyondstraightandgaymarriage-blogspo
With many states requiring same-sex couples to marry before they can both be parents of the same child, it's great to read this story out of Ontario, Canada, about two…
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
Williams Institute marks a very personal 40th anniversary
By nancypolikoffbeyondstraightandgaymarriage-blogspo
I want to express my deep thanks to the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School for honoring the 40th anniversary of a law review article that Nan Hunter and I…
Family Law Prof Blog
Kansas Case on Sperm Donor
By Family Law
From CBS News:A Kansas judge has ruled that a Topeka man who donated sperm so two women could have a baby together isn’t legally the child’s father and doesn’t have…
Family Law Prof Blog
Another Parentage Success Story
By Family Law
From Fred Silberberg writing for The Huffington Post:You may recall the landmark Court of Appeal published decision obtained by our firm in 2014 known as Jason P. v. Danielle S.…
Family Law Prof Blog
NY Law Change on Defining Parents
By Family Law
New York court makes changes in defining parents:Petitioners in the two cases before us have alleged that the parties entered into a pre-conception agreement to conceive and raise a child…
Family Law Prof Blog
Jacobs: Parental Parity: Intentional Parenthood’s Promise
By Family Law
Melanie B. Jacobs recently published Parental Parity: Intentional Parenthood's Promise, 64 Buffalo Law Review 465 (2016) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Parental Parity begins a critical dialogue regarding the reformation…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender and the Marital Presumption of Parentage
By Tracy Thomas
Jamie R. Abrams joins us as a guest blogger for July. She is a professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law where she teaches Torts, Family Law, Women…