Legal Recognition Of Nonconjugal Families

This book argues that insufficient recognition of new families is a legal problem that needs fixing in light of recent evolutions in family patterns and normative conceptions of family. People increasingly invest in relationships falling outside the model of the marital family such as nonconjugal unions of friends or relatives polyamorous relationships and various religiousbased families. Despite this Western jurisdictions retain the marital family as the relevant basis for allocating family l