The transformation of family law : state, law, and family in the United States and western Europe /
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| Author / Creator: | Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938- |
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996, c1989. |
| Description: | xv, 320 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6855884 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Frequently Cited Works Codes, Statutes, and Collections of Judicial Decisions
- 1. Law, Ideas, and Behavior Introduction Legal and Social Institutions From Custom to Law
- 2. Formation of Legal Marriage Who may Marry Who may Marry Whom Premarital Procedures Formalities for the Solemnization of Marriage The Ideologizing of Freedom to Marry Conclusion
- 3. The Law of the Ongoing Family Legal Images of Family Relations Names Economic Relations
- The Ongoing Family and the Outside World Legal Ideas and Family Life
- 4. Divorce Divorce and Marriage Breakdown England: Divorce Reform Act, 1969
- France: Divorce Reform Law, 1975
- West Germany: Marriage and Family Law Reform, 1976
- Sweden: The Family Law Reform, 1973
- The United States: The "No-Fault" Movement, 1969-1985
- Free Terminability as an Attribute of Marriage
- 5. The Legal Effects of Marriage Termination Marriage Termination by Divorce Marriage Termination by Death
- 6. Informal Family Relations Unions Libres, Old and New
- The Nonmarital Lebensgemeinschaft England: A Cautious Accommodation Sweden: Where All Roads Lead?
- Informal Unions, American Style Comparative Observations
- 7. State, Law, and Family New Lamps for Old State and Individual without Intermediaries Family Ecology What Difference Does Law Make?
- Index