Unprincipled family dissolution: The ALI’s recommendations for division of property

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 176-194

  Westfall, David ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 69249108140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617706.011     Document Type: Chapter

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