Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary
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Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Transcript of Proceedings on Domestic Relations, January 8-9, 1964, Los Angeles
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Domestic Relations
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Transcript of Proceedings on Domestic Relations
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Transcript of Proceedings on Domestic Relations
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Transcript of Proceedings on Domestic Relations, September 30, 1964, Santa Monica
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary
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Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Transcript of Proceedings on Domestic Relations, August 13-14, 1964, Sacramento
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary
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Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Domestic Relations
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary. Subcommittee on Domestic Relations
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Category : Alimony
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alimony
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
California State Publications
Transcript of Proceedings of Subcommittee on Alcoholic Rehabilitation, Assembly Interim Committee on Judiciary
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary. Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Rehabilitation Studies
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Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Publisher:
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Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Silent Revolution
Author: Herbert Jacob
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226389516
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226389516
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.