More than marriage forming families after marriage equality
"Today, about one-half of all adults are unmarried. Many of them are in other kinds of significant relationships, yet the law offers them few protections. Although a few states have created nonmarital relationship statuses, they fall far short of the kind of comprehensive structures needed to r...
| Main Author: | Culhane, John G. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Marriage equality, an important but limited victory
- The dawn of the domestic partnership, or "we bored them to death"
- Civil unions : not marriage, but an incredible simulation!
- The Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act : Colorado's successful experiment
- What is marriage, anyway? : (and what isn't marriage?)
- Matching relationship law to reality.