Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Brigham Young University Law Review
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
The American Law Institute (“ALI”) recently approved the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations (the “Family Dissolution Principles” or “Principles”), proposing a wide range of regulations for the legal termination of domestic unions.These standards and rules apply to traditional divorce actions between wives and husbands, as well as in proceedings stemming from the dissolution of nonmarital domestic partnerships. The task of bringing coherence and consistency to family law is truly daunting. Traditional domestic relations jurisprudence, confronted with the brisk pace of cultural and technological change, has resulted in such startling and uneven change to the legal landscape that the ALI's most well-known product, a Restatement, is unthinkable. It will prove difficult enough to agree whether the Principles have properly described the present shape and tendencies of the emerging *924 legal constructs in the field.This article provides an early assessment of the Principles' efforts both to reflect and reframe family dissolution law.
Recommended Citation
James Herbie DiFonzo,
Toward a Unified Field Theory of the Family: The American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, 2001 BYU L. Rev. 923
(2001)
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/faculty_scholarship/462
Comments
Symposium on the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution