The past caretaking standard in comparative perspective

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 446-471

  Parkinson, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617706.026     Document Type: Chapter

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