Duke Law School
Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy

DUKE JOURNAL OF GENDER LAW & POLICY

Volume 8Spring/Summer 2001

Gender Issues in Divorce:
Commentaries on the American Law Institute's
Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution

Editor's Note i
Foreword Herma Hill Kayii
 

INTRODUCTION

Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations The American Law Institute1
 

COMMENTARIES

Insiders and Outsiders: What the American Law Institute Has Done for Gay and Lesbian Families Mary Coombs87
The ALI Principles' Approach to Domestic Partnership Martha M. Ertman107
The Economic Consequences of Divorce: Would Adoption of the ALI Principles Improve Current Outcomes? Marsha Garrison119
Victims, Breeders, Joy, and Math: First Thoughts on Compensatory Spousal Payments Under the Principles Cynthia Lee Starnes 137
Spousal Support Takes on the Mommy Track: Why the ALI Proposal Is Good for Working Mothers Tonya L. Brito151
The ALI Principles and Marital Quality Allen M. Parkman 157
Vacant Promises?: The ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution and the Post-Divorce Financial Circumstances of Women Penelope Eileen Bryan167
Explaining Intuitions: Relating Mergers, Contribution, and Loss In the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution Alicia Brokars Kelly185
Gender and Nonfinancial Matters In the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution Katharine B. Silbaugh203
The ALI Principles: A Farewell to Fault - But What Remedy for the Egregious Marital Misconduct of an Abusive Spouse? Peter Nash Swisher213
Premarital Agreements In the ALI Principles of Family Dissolution Brian H. Bix231
The ALI Child Support Principles: Incremental Changes to Improve the Lot of Children and Residential Parents Leslie Joan Harris245
ALI Child Support Principles: A Lesson In Public Policy and Truth-Telling Karen Syma Czapanskiy259
Expendable Children: Defining Belonging In a Broken World Theresa Glennon269
Constructing Parenthood for Stepparents: Parents by Estoppel and De Facto Parents Under the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution Sarah H. Ramsey285
Feminism and Child Custody Under Chapter Two of the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution Margaret F. Brinig301
How the ALI Child Custody Principles Help Eliminate Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias from Child Custody Determinations Kathy T. Graham323
Limitations Imposed by Family Law on a Separated Parent's Ability to Make Significant Life Decisions: A Comparison of Relocation and Income Imputation J. Thomas Oldham333