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They're Your Kids Too: The Single Father's Guide to Defending Your Fatherhood in a Broken Family Law System Anne Mitchell The "must have" book for any single or soon-to-be-single father (or anyone involved with a single father), written by fathers' rights lawyer Anne P. Mitchell. Mitchell is a nationally recognized fathers’ rights attorney and spokesperson, and was one of the first fathers’ rights attorneys in the country. She is the founder of DadsRights.org, and a leading advocate for children of divorce having a strong relationship with both parents, even in a social and legal climate that often seeks to reduce fathers to weekend “visitors”.
Now the advice and information to which only Anne's clients once had access is available in this straight-forward, plain English, easy-to-read book. In addition to sections on parental alienation, parental kidnapping, and false allegations, Mitchell includes a section on how to ensure your children can still have a well-adjusted childhood, checklists for various issues you may encounter, and a directory of legal organizations and clinics in all 50 states. |
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Fiance & Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration Ilona Bray J.D. Fiance & Marriage Visas makes obtaining a visa and green card as painless as possible for spouses and fiances. Easy to understand, this oneofakind book: demystifies the immigration process, guides readers through the bureaucracy, and provides intensive instructions for each step. |
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Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract Katherine Stoner Attorney, Shae Irving J.D. Any couple thinking about getting married, especially those who might be concerned with the following: keeping their finances totally separate or protecting certain items of separate property, providing for children from a prior marriage when a spouse dies, making sure family property stays in the family when a spouse dies, protecting one spouse from the other’s personal or business debts, defining who gets what in the event of a divorce, clarifying each person’s financial responsibilities during the marriage. |
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Emanuel Law Outlines: Family Law 2011 (Print + eBook Bonus Pack) D. Kelly Weisberg Emanuel Law Outlines: Family Law Print + eBook CD Bundle The most trusted name in law school outlines is now available in AspenLaw Studydesk digital eBook format. It s the best of both worlds a print copy of the Emanuel Law Outline for your desk reference and an eBook version on your laptop to take with you wherever you go. Emanuel Law Outlines: Family Law will support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. The AspenLaw Studydesk eBook format will allow you to search the outline on your laptop and incorporate Legal Concepts into your studying with the click of a button. Created by Steven Emanuel, this series has been relied on by generations of law students. Each outline contains capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks. Bundle Includes: - Emanuel Law Outlines: Family Law paperback
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Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry Evan Wolfson Why Marriage Matters offers a compelling and clear discussion of a question at the forefront of our national consciousness. It is the work of a brilliant civil rights litigator who has dedicated his life to the protection of individuals' rights and our Constitution's commitment to equal justice under the law. Above all, it is a thoughtful, straightforward book that brings into sharp focus the human significance of the right to marry in America -- not just for some couples, but for all. Whatever your personal beliefs, we all can agree that marriage equality provokes both passion and tension, and looms large in our nation's politics. Marriage means many things to many people -- emotionally, spiritually, intellectually -- but in these pages, Evan Wolfson demonstrates a truth that is undeniable: Marriage is the legal gateway to a vast array of tangible and intangible protections, responsibilities, and benefits, most of which cannot be replicated in any other way. Wolfson is a formidable legal thinker who has participated in landmark cases to end race discrimination in jury trials, to secure the rights of battered married women, and to challenge the abuse of power at the highest level in government. Now, with extraordinary clarity, fascinating stories, and legal and historical examples, he addresses the questions we as Americans are asking ourselves as we consider how marriage equality will affect our lives. Why is the word marriage so important? What are the stakes for America in this civil rights movement? How can people of different faiths reconcile their beliefs with the idea of marriage for same-sex couples? How will allowing gay couples to marry affect children? Here you will find thorough, honest answers -- some that may surprise you, some that will persuade you, many that will move you. Wolfson recalls the history of past battles over marriage and movements for equality, and articulates the everyday acts of discrimination that frame this current movement -- acts of discrimination that, if faced by non-gay Americans, would provoke a resounding cry of injustice. Marriage matters because it is a foundation upon which most Americans build dreams. It is the cornerstone of commitment one individual makes to another -- a commitment we are taught is the highest expression of love, dedication, and responsibility. In this, the most powerful, authoritative, and fairly articulated book on the subject, Wolfson demonstrates why the right to marry is important -- indeed necessary -- for all couples and for America's promise of equality. |
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America Peggy Pascoe A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North, and the Midwest. Beginning in the Reconstruction era, when the term miscegenation first was coined, she traces the creation of a racial hierarchy that bolstered white supremacy and banned the marriage of Whites to Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and American Indians as well as the marriage of Whites to Blacks. She ends not simply with the landmark 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court finally struck down miscegenation laws throughout the country, but looks at the implications of ideas of colorblindness that replaced them. What Comes Naturally is both accessible to the general reader and informative to the specialist, a rare feat for an original work of history based on archival research. |
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What Were You Thinking??: $600-Per-Hour Legal Advice on Relationships, Marriage & Divorce Mark A. Barondess High-profile divorce attorney Barondess' book on marriage and its loyal partner, divorce, is not for romantics. Don't want to get divorced? Don't get married. But, "if you insist that the road down perceived marital bliss is a journey that you must embark upon," Barondess cautions, think of your future spouse as (what else?) a car, perhaps even a used car. Celebrity-penned essays conclude each of the 13 chapters, and though they're entertaining, some readers might be hesitant to take marriage advice from, say, Donald Trump or Gene Simmons. Barondess' informed and occasionally raucous examination of the institution is cheaper than consulting a divorce attorney or hiring a wedding caterer, and is well-worth a look before doing either.
Phoenix Books offers this newly formatted ebook edition which has been enhanced for digital readers and features a fully interactive table of contents. |
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Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law (Queer Ideas) Nancy D. Polikoff, Michael Bronski Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage shouldn't bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and LGBT, live in a variety of relationships-including unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended biological family units, and myriad other familial configurations. Nancy D. Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must. |
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Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving Phyl Newbeck This landmark volume chronicles the history of laws banning interracial marriage in the United States with particular emphasis on the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia of the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late 1950s. The Lovings were not activists, but their battle to live together as husband and wife in their home state instigated the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that antimiscegenation laws were unconstitutional, which ultimately resulted in the overturning of laws against interracial marriage that were still in effect in sixteen states by the late 1960s. |
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Cohabitation, Marriage and the Law: Social Change and Legal Reform in the 21st Century Anne Barlow, Simon Duncan, Grace James, Alison Parks Unmarried heterosexual cohabitation is rapidly increasing in Britain and over a quarter of children are now born to unmarried cohabiting parents. This is not just an important change in the way people live in modern Britain; it is also a political and theoretical marker. Some commentators see cohabitation as evidence of selfish individualism and the breakdown of the family, while others see it as just a less institutionalized way in which people express commitment and build their families. Politically, 'stable' families are seen as crucial—but does stability simply mean marriage? At present the law in Britain retains important distinctions in the way it treats cohabiting and married families and this can have deleterious effects on the welfare of children and partners on cohabitation breakdown or the death of a partner. Should the law be changed to reflect this changing social reality? Or should it—can it—be used to direct these changes? Using findings which combine nationally representative data with in-depth qualitative work, the authors examine public attitudes about cohabitation and marriage, provide an analysis of who cohabits and who marries, and investigate the extent and nature of the 'common law marriage myth' (the false belief that cohabitants have similar legal rights to married couples). They then explore why people cohabit rather than marry, what the nature of their commitment is to one another and chart public attitudes to legal change. In the light of this evidence, Cohabitation, Marriage and the Law then evaluates different options for legal reform. |