Competing values underlie U.S. immigration law and child welfare law. Immigration law often operates in ways that intentionally hinder family unity, which in the child welfare context enjoys tremendous constitutional protection. First, the operation of immigration law undermines family unity by failing to recognize the variety of family structures that exist, which has profound implications for...

ALTHOUGH the gap between socio-scientific developments and the law may not be altogether undesirable,' the recent case of Gursky v. Gurshy2 is a graphic illustration of the bizarre result which may be reached by the application of traditional legal concepts to modem developments in medicine and sociology. In Gursky a New York supreme court applied the words "out of wedlock" in a narrow sense an...

This submission was prepared by the National Health Law and Family Law Sections of the Canadian Bar Association, with assistance from the Legislation and Law Reform Directorate at the National Office. The submission has been reviewed by the Legislation and Law Reform Committee and approved by the Executive Officers as a public statement by the National Health Law and Family Law Sections of the ...

The UF College of Law has a course entitled Economics of the Family. Developed as part of the Family Law Certificate Program, the class covers the quantitative aspects of Family Law: alimony, child support, distribution of property, marriage contracts, social security, child care and elder care costs, adoption expenses, education expenses, heart balm actions, the tax consequences of each topic,...