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Inside the castle : law and the family in 20th century America /
Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton [N.J.] :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Tying the knot : marriage and promises to marry
- Marriage and the state
- Marriage, law, and society : a tangled web
- Common-law marriage
- The end of heart balm
- pt. 2. Anything goes : marriage in a permissive age
- The rise of sexual freedom
- Cohabitation
- Same-sex relationships
- pt. 3. When the music stops : dissolving a marriage and the aftermath
- Untying the knot : divorce and annulment
- Dollars and sense : the economic consequences of divorce
- Collateral damage : the children of divorce
- pt. 4. The old and the new generation
- The extended family : elder law and the law of inheritance
- Parents and children : rights and duties
- Who do we belong to? Parentage and the law
- Chosen people : adoption and the law.