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 recogn...

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Main Author: Culhane, John G. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: 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.