From the San Francisco Chronicle: Throughout the pandemic, we have seen the effects that COVID-19 has had on families across the country. But little attention has been given to the increasing rates of divorce and domestic violence, combined with the decreased access to family courts with long delays. Which makes now the perfect...
Laura T. Kessler (Utah) recently posted to SSRN her paper Family Law by the Numbers: The Story That Casebooks Tell, 62 Arizona L. Rev. (2020). Here is the abstract:
This Article presents the findings of a content analysis of 86 family law casebooks published in the United States from 1960...
From Slate: In mid-December, the Supreme Court turned away Indiana’s attempt to strip equal parenting rights from married same-sex couples. The court’s decision ensures that same-sex couples in Indiana will remain the lawful parents of their own children, ending the state’s six-year-long crusade to remove their names from their children’s birth certificates. But...
From Boston Magazine: On a Monday afternoon this summer, when I should have been working, I closed down Slack, shut my bedroom door for privacy, and joined a Zoom call with some 30 strangers. All of us had set aside two and a half hours of our workday, and the same amount of...