Determining Legal Parentage - Between Family Law and Contract Law

This book deals with the nexus of modern contract and family law for resolving the various dilemmas that have surfaced. It explores whether and to what extent there is room, legally and ethically, for the use of modern contractual devices and doctrines to privately regulate the establishment of legal parentage.

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The shift in the traditional family structure, modern ART and how they are undermining the accepted models for determining legal parentage; 2. An overview of the current ART, the dilemmas it surfaces and the role of DLPBA in the positive law; 3. Overview of the objections to DLPBA in the positive legal system; 4. An overview of the arguments that support DLPBA; 5. Refuting the objections to DLPBA in the positive legal system; 6. The theoretical and practical infrastructure of DLPBA; 7. Implementing DLPBA in the various scenarios; Conclusions; Index; Bibliography.

About the author

Yehezkel Margalit is Senior Lecturer of Law at Netanya Academic College and Bar-Ilan University and Visiting Research Scholar at New York University Law School (2011–2012). He is the author of The Jewish Family: Between Family Law and Contract Law (Cambridge, 2018).

Summary

This book deals with the nexus of modern contract and family law for resolving the various dilemmas that have surfaced. It explores whether and to what extent there is room, legally and ethically, for the use of modern contractual devices and doctrines to privately regulate the establishment of legal parentage.

Product details

• Authors: Yehezkel Margalit
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108436915
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43691-5
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Family Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Family Law / Children, Family Law, Social Law, Law & society, Family law: children, Law and society, sociology of law, Social law and Medical law