Postmodern marriage as seen through the lens of the ALI’s “compensatory payments”

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 249-268

  Spaht, Katherine Shaw ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617706.015     Document Type: Chapter

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