Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy

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Cynthia Grant Bowman (Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence, Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence, Cornell University Law School)

Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy

Cynthia Grant Bowman (Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence, Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence, Cornell University Law School)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 May 2010

In Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, Cynthia Grant Bowman explores legal recognition of opposite-sex cohabiting couples in the United States. Unmarried cohabitation has increased at a phenomenal rate in the U.S. over the last few decades, but the law has not responded to the legal issues raised by this new family form.

Although a majority of cohabiting unions dissolve within the first two years, many are longer in term and function like other families; a large number of children also reside in these households.

If one partner dies, is injured, or leaves the family, the remaining family members are left in an extremely vulnerable position in almost every state without any type of survivors' benefits, compensation for loss of a wage-earning partner, or remedies similar to those available upon dissolution of a marriage.

The author argues that the many benefits attendant upon formal marriage should be extended to cohabitants who have lived together for more than two years or give birth to a child.

In order to avoid these consequences, a couple would need to opt out of them by contract.

Professor Bowman reaches this conclusion after a thorough review of the history of the legal treatment of cohabitation in the United States, the inadequacy of the legal remedies available to cohabitants in most states, the now-voluminous social science literature about cohabitation, and the experience of six other countries (England, Canada, Australia, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden) that have attempted a variety of legal reforms to address the problems of cohabitants.

By: Cynthia Grant Bowman (Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence Cornell University Law School)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 254mm, Spine: 51mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780195372274
ISBN 10: 0195372271
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 May 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cynthia Grant Bowman is the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. She has published widely in diverse areas of family law and other topics concerning law and gender.

Reviews for Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy

<p> The authors' work is thorough and clear. It is imbued with an appropriate balance of concern for both the working life of full-time non-tenure-track faculty and for the issues that push institutions toward this form of faculty relationship. -- Michael R. Sawdey, Academic Leader