Discretion, Rules, and Law: Child Custody and the UMDA's Best-Interest Standard

Gender Politics and Child Custody: the Puzzling Persistence of the Best-interests Standard

The best-interests-of-the-child standard has been the prevailing legal rule for resolving child-custody disputes between parents for nearly forty years. Almost from the beginning, it has been the target of academic criticism. As Robert Mnookin famously argued in a 1976 article, “best interests” are vastly indeterminate— more a statement of an aspiration than a legal rule to guide custody decisi...

the obstacles of exercising child custody in the imami jurisprudence, iranian law and french law

parents’ authority in support and education of theirchildren should be used only to protect their best interests.therefore if protection of child’s safety, health oreducation so requires, this authority may be limited orwithdrawn from the parents. in imami jurisprudence,iranian law and french law, welfare of the child is themain factor governing the support and education of thechild. each of th...

Can joint custody serve the best interests of the child?

Discretion, Rules, and Volatility

E conomic models with multiple equilib-ria, such as Diamond and Dybvig (1983), have become increasingly useful in analyzing volatility in financial markets and in business cycles. In many of these models, indeterminacy is a result of incomplete financial markets or technological nonconvexities. Here we identify economic policy discretion to be another distinct cause of indeterminate equilibrium...

In the best interest of the child.

Background: The Best Interest of the Child Questionnaire (BIC-Q) has been designed as an instrument for screening the quality of the rearing situation of asylum-seeking children. It is intended to aid legal decisions in asylum procedures. Aim: Aim of this study was to determine the reliability and the construct validity of the BIC-Q. Method: Based on a study sample of asylum-seeking children in...