The Changing Face of Family Law

    Volume 52, Issue 1   March 2019

    Family

    Living Apart Together as a “Family Form” Among Persons of Retirement Age: The Appropriate Family Law Response

    Cynthia Grant Bowman

    Retirement-age Baby Boomers are increasingly “living apart together” (LAT) to support themselves and each other in old age. This Article explores LAT research and literature and concludes with the author’s observations about what the response of family law should be to this new lifestyle.

    Features

    Family

    Multipartner Fertility in a Disadvantaged Population: Results and Policy Implications of an Empirical Investigation of Paternity Actions in St. Joseph County, Indiana

    Margaret F. Brinig & Marsha Garrison

    A computerized, court-based record system in Indiana provided the authors unusual access to data on multipartner fertility (MPF). It offered a unique, data-rich window into an important—and growing—aspect of contemporary family life. It also pointed the way to needed shifts in family policy and law.

    Howard C. Schwab Memorial Essays, 2017 & 2018

    Family

    Lessons from My Sister’s Keeper: A Minor’s Right to Refuse Lifesaving Treatment

    Stephanie S. O’Loughlin

    Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper is a novel that explores the difficult topic of the terminal illness of a sixteen-year-old girl and the lengths her family goes through in order to preserve her life. Much of the literature written on this novel focuses on Anna, the sister who was born in order to become a donor for her sister, Kate, and the ethics of forcing such donations from a child.

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