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Abstract This article illuminates the legal regulation of the economic rights of non‐marital partners at separation or death. Current approaches have typically fallen into two categories: one advocating for the separation of legal regimes based on formal status, treating cohabitant partners as strangers, and the other taking a functional approach ...
Shahar Lifshitz
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Abstract In 2020 Renaissance Studies [34 (2020): 243–59] published an essay entitled “Lorenzo de' Medici and Inheritance Law in Florence,” discussing the use of legislation by Lorenzo de' Medici to advantage Carlo Borromei in inheritance from his uncle, to the disadvantage of his cousin, Beatrice, who was married to a Pazzi.
Thomas Kuehn
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Reassessing the relationship between women's empowerment and fertility: Evidence from India
Abstract An overwhelming body of evidence supports a negative relationship between women's empowerment and fertility. In this paper, we evaluate whether this relationship holds in a setting with a high degree of son preference and limited access to abortion services by focusing on rural India.
Nayana Bose, Shreyasee Das
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Mthembu v Letsela: The non-decision [PDF]
The debate concerning the apparent conflict between equality (section 9 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 108 of 1996) and culture (sections 30 and 31 of the 1996 Constitution) is ongoing.
AM Janse van Rensburg
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Chalk dust in the law of inhibition [PDF]
A discussion of the time at which an inhibition takes effect by reference to their character and traditional method of ...
MacLeod, J.
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Duration of exposure to inheritance law in India: Examining the heterogeneous effects on empowerment
Abstract The impact of public programs involving legal protection may depend on the duration of exposure, especially in developing countries with persistent social norms. A longer duration of the program is likely to be associated with gradual positive changes in these norms that beneficiaries could leverage in their favor.
Shreya Biswas +2 more
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Basic Arkansas Intestate Succession, Rights of Surviving Spouses, and Related Curative Techniques for Lawyers and Landmen [PDF]
Mineral interests may lay dormant for decades before becoming productive. In the interim, however, the owners of these interests do not lay dormant. They live long lives, marry, have children, and eventually, they die.
Robinette, J. Mark, Jr.
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Abstract Objective This study examines sibling inequality in inheritances and investigates the associations between inheritance share, intergenerational support, and patrilineality, as well as the potential interplay between support and patrilineality.
Dahye Kim, Jeremy Lim‐Soh
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Gender Equality and Customary Marriage: Bargaining in the Shadow of Post-Apartheid Legal Pluralism [PDF]
This Report represents the culmination of a year-long project undertaken by the Crowley Program in International Human Rights at the Fordham Law School to study issues surrounding women and customary law marriages in South Africa in light of its ...
Fenrich, Jeanmarie +2 more
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Written evidence to Justice Committee, Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006, Post-legislative Scrutiny [PDF]
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Carruthers, Janeen M. +1 more
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