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The Supreme Court appeared unlikely to strike down a Minnesota law that keeps people from collecting on their exes’ life-insurance policies. Minnesota enacted the statute at issue in 2002 to address the tendency of couples unintentionally failing to update such documents after a divorce. At a hearing on the law, the Supreme Court noted that some...

Mothers in Saudi Arabia can now retain custody of their children after divorce without filing lawsuits, according to a Saudi Information Ministry statement Monday, meaning the kingdom is breaking ranks with several other countries in the region that heavily favor male guardianship. The move comes as part of a series of sweeping social and economic reforms known as Vision 2030....

John Lande has posted to SSRN Overcoming Roadblocks to Reaching Settlement in Family Law Cases, 40 Family Advocate 26 (Winter 2018). Here is the abstract: In “litigation as usual,” settlement often comes only after adversarial posturing, the original conflict escalates, the relationships deteriorate, the process takes too long and costs too much, and nobody is really happy...

Brief of Amici Curiae Family Law Professors in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees and Affirmance in Kitchen v. Herbert. This amici curiae brief was filed in the United States Circuit Court for the Tenth Circuit on behalf of 40 family and child welfare law professors in Kitchen v. Herbert, the federal case The amici brief seeks to provide the...