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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
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School Enrollment and Living Arrangements of Children in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract School enrollment has increased in many sub‐Saharan African countries over recent decades, alongside substantial socioeconomic and demographic transitions. However, gains in educational enrollment have not been equal, raising questions about the determinants of access to and variability in school enrollment. The living arrangements of children
Maria Pohl, Ewa Batyra, Albert Esteve
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, 2021 According to the Black’s Law Dictionary, a prenuptial agreement is an agreement made before marriage to resolve issues of support and property division if the marriage ends in divorce or by the death of a spouse.
Nyanduko, Abisai Aoleon
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IBLAM Law ReviewA prenuptial agreement is a legal instrument that grants married couples the authority to regulate the ownership of assets, rights, and obligations during marriage.
Erlina Erlina, Muhammad Fathinnuddin
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Estate Planning and Wills Across Borders: Sometimes a Quagmire in the Making
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2021 In this article a synoptic evaluation is made in respect of the estate planning and wills of South African nationals working, investing or living in foreign jurisdictions, in the broader context of globalisation and internationalisation.
Eben Nel
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The Nordic countries of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland were among the first countries to acknowledge same‐sex couples’ partnership and parenthood rights in their legislation. We explore trends over time in the share of female same‐sex and different‐sex couples that have children following their legal union and variation by socioeconomic ...
Maria Ponkilainen +6 more
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2012 Spouses in transnational Dutch-Moroccan or Dutch-Egyptian marriages potentially get married in a foreign legal system or in two legal systems with significant differences in, for example, marital property law.
Iris Sportel
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Maria Ulfah: Traces of Women’s Law in Building Indonesian Nations, 1938–1973
Jurnal El TarikhThis study examines the multidimensional contributions of Maria Ulfah Santoso (1911–1988), a pioneering advocate for women’s rights in Indonesia, in advancing gender equality during the period of 1938–1973.
Fazriani Putri Utami +2 more
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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
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Should We Write Prenuptial Contracts? [PDF]
When a marriage dissolves, a couple usually divides all marital assets according to the division rule imposed upon them by the state. The present paper uses incomplete contract theory to study the interplay between the state s division rule and a married
Helmut Rainer
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