Related Topics
Related Topics is a forum for intelligent and sustained discussion of some of the more compelling family law issues. The author of this blog, Julie Shapiro, is an associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law. She teaches family law and law and sexuality as well as civil procedure.
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As I mentioned at some earlier point in the blog, this past election day Arkansas enacted a ban on adoption/fostering by unmarried couples. More specifically, the law prohibits individuals who are part of an unmarried couple from adopting/fostering. There’s an editorial in today’s Ne...
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I’m back, but there will be a bit of a lag time while I get started up again. I’ve a very short post for today that I’ll turn to momentarily. Meantime, if you’ll just bear with me a bit longer. I’ll take this down when I’ve hit my stride again. (Isn’t th...
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Here I will carry on a bit from the last post. (And I remind you–I’m away from home with only occasional web access and so I cannot create internal links.) For the moment I am considering the idea that you could have two distinct sets of rules for parentage, one...
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(I’m writing this aboard a cruise ship, of all places, and have somewhat limited Internet access. In particular, it is difficult for me to see my own blog. For that reason, you won’t find links to earlier related posts. If you want to set this into context, I’m...
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I’m sorry to say that for the moment I feel I’ve come full circle without resolving much. (I suppose when you come full circle you never make progress, do you? I mean, by definition you are back where you started.) So I started, now a few posts back, trying to figure out the reason f...
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Over the next couple of weeks we will be doing some travelling and I will likely only be able to post now and again. I will do the best I can, perhaps set some posts to go up automatically, assuming of cousre I get them written. Apart from that, I’ll see you in the new [...]Over the next co...
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I pause in my exploration of the differences between surrogacy and adoption to consider a Quebec law with a truly novel feature. It’s not really far off-topic, actually. In a recent post on her very fine blog, Professor Nancy Polikoff discusses this law. She in turn refers to an article a...
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[Once again, this is a continuation of a thread started several posts ago--you can leaf back through the "what's the difference" posts and get caught up to speed.] I’ve not been terribly satisfied with that last post, so I want to take another run at it with a slightly different hypo. Suppose...
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This picks up (not surprisingly) from What’s the Difference, II which is a a couple days back. That post, of course, will send you back to the original What’s the Difference? To make sense of this one, you’ll need to have read the other two. This is about the difference between a...
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There are a ton of letters in today’s NYT magazine in response to the article about surrogacy. ( I’ve written about the original article a couple of times, once when it came out and once a week or so later.) There have also been hundreds of comments posted on the on-line version of th...
