This article considers the legal and cultural attitudes towards the family revealed in two “narratives” of disputed paternity: Guy de Maupassant's short story Monsieur Parent (1885) and the US Supreme Court case Michael H. v. Gerald D. (1989). Though separated by a century, these texts both relate to the presumption of legitimacy, that legal principle that has made fathers of husbands since the Roman era; both, moreover, suggest that the principle is unfair. Yet while Maupassant's tale reflects and adapts common 19th-century anxieties surrounding the (near-absolute) uncertainty of paternity, anxieties according to which the worst thing that might befall a husband was to be legally burdened with another man's child, Michael H. v. Gerald D. i...
The marital presumption of paternity, which arose from English common law, has served as a core comp...
As Justice Brennan observed in Michael H. v. Gerald D. so many years ago, we must “identify the poin...
Legal parentage under American state laws is significantly and rapidly evolving. And, it is increasi...
This article considers the legal and cultural attitudes towards the family revealed in two “narrativ...
As Justice Brennan observed in Michael H. v. Gerald D. so many years ago, we must “identify the poin...
The marital presumption is deeply rooted in Anglo-American law: a husband and wife are assumed to be...
This article examines the recent history and current status of the marital presumption of paternity....
Paternity as a legal institute is historically marked by an instrinsical ambiguity: its aim is to ac...
This Article examines two domains of family law, each of which seems to threaten or challenge (depen...
This marital presumption permitted courts to assume a set of biological facts in the name of prese...
What makes a father? Illegitimacy and paternity from the Year II to the Civil Code. In the fall of...
For the first time in history, a man today can learn definitively whether a child is his. Twentieth-...
The American law of parent and child is conventionally understood to be extremely deferential to par...
It is popularly believed that false paternity rates are 10-30%, and that thousands of unsuspecting m...
This Article questions whether and why it should be unconstitutional to treat legitimate and illegit...
The marital presumption of paternity, which arose from English common law, has served as a core comp...
As Justice Brennan observed in Michael H. v. Gerald D. so many years ago, we must “identify the poin...
Legal parentage under American state laws is significantly and rapidly evolving. And, it is increasi...
This article considers the legal and cultural attitudes towards the family revealed in two “narrativ...
As Justice Brennan observed in Michael H. v. Gerald D. so many years ago, we must “identify the poin...
The marital presumption is deeply rooted in Anglo-American law: a husband and wife are assumed to be...
This article examines the recent history and current status of the marital presumption of paternity....
Paternity as a legal institute is historically marked by an instrinsical ambiguity: its aim is to ac...
This Article examines two domains of family law, each of which seems to threaten or challenge (depen...
This marital presumption permitted courts to assume a set of biological facts in the name of prese...
What makes a father? Illegitimacy and paternity from the Year II to the Civil Code. In the fall of...
For the first time in history, a man today can learn definitively whether a child is his. Twentieth-...
The American law of parent and child is conventionally understood to be extremely deferential to par...
It is popularly believed that false paternity rates are 10-30%, and that thousands of unsuspecting m...
This Article questions whether and why it should be unconstitutional to treat legitimate and illegit...
The marital presumption of paternity, which arose from English common law, has served as a core comp...
As Justice Brennan observed in Michael H. v. Gerald D. so many years ago, we must “identify the poin...
Legal parentage under American state laws is significantly and rapidly evolving. And, it is increasi...