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).