References

Publications on Stepfamilies and the Law

 By Margorie Engel, MBA, PhD

"How Current Laws and Social Policies Undermine Stepfamilies," Chapter 10, FAMILY LAW UPDATE 2003, Ron Brown and Laura Morgan, editors; Aspen Law and Business (December 2002).

"The Effects of Divorce Financial Decisions on Stepfamilies," Chapter 9, FAMILY LAW UPDATE 2002, Ron Brown and Laura Morgan, editors; Aspen Law and Business (December 2001).

Stepfamily Business Decisions Booklets series, SAA Families Press (Spring 2001).

Pockets of Poverty: The Second Wives Club - Examining the Financial [In]Security of Women in Remarriages, William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Volume 5, Issue 2, 309-381 (Spring 1999).

Review of The Financial Advisor's Guide to Divorce Settlement (Carol Ann Wilson, Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996), Bi-Monthly Review of Law Books, Edwin Bander, ed., Vol. 8, No. 1 at 17 (1997).

The Divorce Decisions Workbook: A Planning and Action Guide, McGraw-Hill (1992).

 By Margaret M. Mahoney, J.D.

Support and Custody Aspects of the Stepparent-Child Relationship, 70 Cornell Law Review 38 (1984).

Stepfamilies and the Federal Law, 48 University of Pittsburgh law Review 491 (1986).

Stepfamilies in the Law of Intestate Succession and Wills, 22 U.C. Davis Law Review 917 (1989).

A Legal Definition of the Stepfamily: The Example of Incest Regulation, 7 Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law 21 (1993).

"Reformulating the Legal Definition of the Stepparent-Child Relationship," in STEPFAMILIES: WHO BENEFITS AND WHO DOES NOT? (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 1994).

STEPFAMILIES AND THE LAW (University of Michigan Press, 1994).

Stepfamilies from a legal Perspective, in STEPFAMILIES FROM VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES (The Haworth Press 1997).

Open Adoption in Context (Stepparent Adoption Under the Uniform Adoption Act), 51 Florida Law Review 89 (1999).

 By Sarah H. Ramsey, J.D.

Constructing Parenthood for Stepparents: Parents by Estoppel and De Facto Parents under the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, 8 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 285 (2001). Available at http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/articles/gen8p285.htm

Stepfamilies and the Law, in Stepparenting: Issues in Theory, Research and Practice (Pasley and Ihinger - Tallman, Eds.) Greenwood Press 1994.

Stepparent Support of Stepchildren: The Changing Legal Context and the Need for Empirical Policy Research, 35 Family Relations: Journal of Applied Family and Child Studies 363 (1986).