{"id":10628,"date":"2017-12-11T02:27:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T02:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10628"},"modified":"2017-12-11T04:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:08:19","slug":"family-law-marriage-divorce-adoption-child-custody-and-support-child-abuse-and-neglect-paternity-assisted-reproductive-technology-and-other-domestic-relations-issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10628","title":{"rendered":"Family Law – marriage, divorce, adoption, child custody and support, child abuse and neglect, paternity, assisted reproductive technology, and other domestic-relations issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

family law<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(1919)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The body of law dealing with marriage, divorce, adoption, child custody and support, child abuse and neglect, paternity, assisted reproductive tech<\/span>nology, and other domestic-relations issues.\u00a0 *\u00a0 Juvenile <\/span><\/strong>delinquency is sometimes considered part of family law, though some categorize it only as criminal law.<\/strong> \u2014 aka domestic relations<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; domestic-relations law<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

2. (More broadly) all the law dealing with Wills and estates, property, constitutional rights<\/strong>, contracts, employment, and finance as they relate to families.<\/strong> [1]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from G.W. Keeton’s The <\/em><\/a>Elementary Principles of Jurisprudence<\/em><\/a> (2d ed. 1949):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cConsidered historically, family law began as a branch of public law, and only in recent times, whilst individualist theories have been dominant, has it become a branch of <\/span><\/span><\/strong>private law.\u00a0 Family law, administered by the paterfamilias, preceded the birth of the state, and is therefore older than other branches of public law.\u00a0 Later, the state was able to break down the corporate unity of the family, and to impose its commands directly upon the individual.\u00a0 Even today, however, it may be contended that the individual, in providing for the support and development in society of his family, is fulfilling a semipublic function.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>by<\/b><\/span><\/strong> Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: G.W. Keeton, The <\/em><\/a>Elementary Principles of Jurisprudence<\/em><\/a> 328 (2d ed. 1949).
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