Journal of Law and Family Studies Volume 03-04

Table of Contents: Constitutional Cases and Controversies of the United States Supreme Court 2000 Term; Value of the Law in Shaping Social Perspectives on Marriage; "Don't Ever Take A Fence Down": The "Functional" Definition of Family -- Displacing Marriage in Family Law; Admissibility of Evidence that a Spouse has Remarried in a Wrongful Death Action in Utah; The Doctrine of Interspousal Immunity: Does it Still Exist in Utah; Introduction to the Symposium; Social Science Research on Family Dissolution: What It Shows and How It Might be of Interest to Family Law Reformers; Domestic Partnership: Missing the Target?; The Futility of Coherence:The ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, Compensatory Spousal Payments; Widening the Lens: Chapter 6 of the ALI Principles: Hawaii and Vermont; Prelude to Marriage or Alternative to Marriage? A Social Demographic Look Cohabitation in the U.S.; How Will the Proliferation and Recognition of Domestic Partnerships Affect Marriage; Property Settlements as the Cornerstone of Financial Arrangements at Divorce; The Fine Art of Listening: Children's Voices in Custody Proceedings; Horton Looks at the ALI Principles; Sexual Harrassment in the Workplace: A Property Rights Perspective; Das Boot! A National Survey of Booting Programs' Impact on Child Support Compliance; Role Duality and the Issue of Immunity for the Guardian Ad Litem in the District of Columbia; City Hall Can be Beaten: Litigation Strategies for Child and Family Advocates Under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997; Case Notes: Baker v. State: Is America Moving Towards Allowing Same Sex Marriages?; United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group: Protecting Children or Regulatory Overkill; Estate of Macias v. Ihde: Do Police Officers Have a Duty to Protect Victims of Domestic Violence; Troxel v. Granville: The End of Grandparent Visitation; United States v. Morrisoon: Constitutional Limits on Federal Authority to Remedy Gender-Based Violent Crime; Gonzalez v. Reno: A Boy Caught in a Political Maelstrom; A (Children): Conjoined Twins and Their Medical Treatment; In re Adoption of B.B.D. an Unwed Fathers Constitutional Right: Existence of Paternal Rights in the Face of Inconvenient Duty; In re Adoption of A.B. The Best Interests of the Child; In re W.A.T. and the State of Adoption in Utah; Franco v. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: The Constitutionality of Clergy Malpractice Claims; Good News Club v. Milford Central School: Can Religion Mix with Public Schools; City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books Inc.: Will the Supreme Court Allow the Ninth Circuit's Anomaly in Case Law; The Perruche Case; In Re Adoption of B.V.: Setting Forth the Proper Application of Utah's Adoption Statute While Failing the Child Yet Again; Book Notes: From Contract to Covenant: Beyond the Law and Economics of the Family; Unspeakable Acts: Why Men Sexually Abuse Children; The War Against Boys: Justified Retribution; The Future of Child Protection: How to Break the Cycles of Abuse and Neglect; Superpredators: The Demonization of Our Child by the Law; Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation; Redefining Fatherhood; The Custody Wars: Why Children are Losing the Legal Battle and What We Can Do About It; Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White; Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts; Who Count as Persons? Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing; Family Mediation: Facts, Myths and Future Prospects; Statute Note: The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act and Immigration and Naturalization Service Implementation