Undeserved trust: Reflections on the ALI’s Treatment of De facto parents

Reconceiving the Family: Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 90-120

  Wilson, Robin Fretwell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617706.007     Document Type: Chapter

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