History Of Divorce Legislation In Iowa
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An Historical Geography of the Changing Divorce Law in the United States
Author | : Mary Somerville Jones |
Publisher | : Dissertations-G |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Divorce Law in Iowa
Author | : Legal Services Corporation of Iowa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Divorce |
ISBN | : |
Divorce Law in Iowa when the Family Has Children
Author | : Iowa Legal Aid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Custody of children |
ISBN | : |
Silent Revolution
Author | : Herbert Jacob |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1988-07-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780226389516 |
Conflict and controversy usually accompany major social changes in America. Such issues as civil rights, abortion, and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment provoke strong and divisive reactions, attract extensive media coverage, and generate heated legislative debate. Some theorists even claim that only mobilization and publicity can stimulate significant legislative change. How is it possible, then, that a wholesale revamping of American divorce law occurred with scarcely a whisper of controversy and without any national debate? This is the central question posed—and authoritatively answered—in Herbert Jacob's Silent Revolution. Since 1966, divorce laws in the United States have undergone a radical transformation. No-fault divorce is now universally available. Alimony functions simply as a brief transitional payment to help a dependent spouse become independent. Most states divide assets at divorce according to a community property scheme, and, whenever possible, many courts prefer to award custody of children to the mother and the father jointly. These changes in policy represent a profound departure from traditional American values, and yet the legislation by which they were enacted was treated as a technical correction of minor problems. No-fault divorce, for example, was a response to the increasing number of fraudulent divorce petitions. Since couples were often forced to manufacture the evidence of guilt that many states required, and since judges frequently looked the other way, legal reformers sought no more than to bring divorce statutes into line with current practice. On the basis of such observations, Jacob formulates a new theory of routine—as opposed to conflictual—policy-making processes. Many potentially controversial policies—divorce law reforms among them—pass unnoticed in America because legislators treat them as matters of routine. Jacob's is indeed the most plausible account of the enormous number and steady flow of policy decisions made by state legislatures. It also explains why no attention was paid to the effect divorce reform would have on divorced women and their children, a subject that has become increasingly controversial and that, consequently, is not likely to be handled by the routine policy-making process in the future.
History of Economic Legislation in Iowa
Author | : Ivan Lester Pollock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Industrial laws and legislation |
ISBN | : |
Divorce Law in Iowa when the Family Has Children
Author | : Iowa Legal Aid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Custody of children |
ISBN | : |