Tag: Marriage
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Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Rights in the United States Reproductive Rights Cases Roe v. Wade, 1973. There, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that made abortion a crime except when necessary to save the life of the mother. In Roe, the Court held that the 14th Amendment’s right of privacy encompass […]
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Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Rights in the United States Reproductive Rights Cases Roe v. Wade, 1973. There, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that made abortion a crime except when necessary to save the life of the mother. In Roe, the Court held that the 14th Amendment’s right of privacy encompass […]
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Illegitimacy
Illegitimacy in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled ILLEGITIMACYThe Anglo-American law of illegitimacy derives from two interrelated purposes of our institutional progenitors. First, imposing the […]
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Illegitimacy
Illegitimacy in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled ILLEGITIMACYThe Anglo-American law of illegitimacy derives from two interrelated purposes of our institutional progenitors. First, imposing the […]
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Traditional Values
Traditional Values in the United States Leading Case Law Among the main judicial decisions on this topic: Loving v. Virginia Information about this important court opinion is available in this American legal Encyclopedia. Marriage Information about this related topic is available in this […]
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Prenuptial Agreements
Prenuptial Agreements in the United States Prenuptial Agreements, Sexual Behaviour and the Law Further Reading Prenuptial Agreements in the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law Leading Case Law Among the main judicial decisions on this topic: Marvin v. Marvin Information about this […]
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Prenuptial Agreements
Prenuptial Agreements in the United States Prenuptial Agreements, Sexual Behaviour and the Law Further Reading Prenuptial Agreements in the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law Leading Case Law Among the main judicial decisions on this topic: Marvin v. Marvin Information about this […]
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Marriage
Marriage in United States Marriage Definition The word marriage is used to signify either the act of entering into the marital condition, or the condition itself. In the latter and more frequent legal sense, it is a civil status, existing in one man and one woman, legally united for life for […]
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Marriage
Marriage in United States Marriage Definition The word marriage is used to signify either the act of entering into the marital condition, or the condition itself. In the latter and more frequent legal sense, it is a civil status, existing in one man and one woman, legally united for life for […]
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Surrogate Contracts
Surrogate Contracts in the United States Surrogate Mother Contracts: Main Elements The coverage of Surrogate Mother Contracts includes the following element(s): Visitation Find out an overview of this topic, in relation to Surrogate Mother Contracts, in the legal Ecyclopedia. References See […]
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Gay Marriage
Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Union in the United States Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Union: Main Elements The coverage of Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Union includes the following element(s): The Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Defense of Marriage Act Find out an overview of this topic, in […]
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Marriage and the Family
Marriage and the Family in the United States Marriage and the Family: Summary In this entry, Marriage and the Family covers: Marriage Common Law Marriage Child Custody and Support Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Union Visitation Illegitimacy Divorce Reproductive Rights Alimony Marriage […]
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Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church (USA) in the United States Presbyterian Church (USA) and Same Sex Marriage By Ron Russell. He is editor of the online Bay Area Observer. Thanks to some clever parsing by the church’s court, the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country has remained largely […]
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Bigamy
Bigamy in United States Bigamy Definition At Common Law. The willfully contracting a second marriage when the contracting party knows that the first is still subsisting. The state of a man who has two lives, or of a woman who has two husbands, living at the same time. When the man has more […]
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Curtesy
Curtesy in United States Curtesy Definition The estate to which, by common law, a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands or tMiements of which she was seised in possession in fee simple or in tail during her coverture, provided they have had lawful issue born alive which […]