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Filial support laws were an outgrowth of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601. [2] [3] At one time [year needed], as many as 45 U.S. states had statutes obligating an adult child to care for his or her parents. Some states repealed their filial support laws after Medicaid took a greater role in providing relief to elderly patients without means.
Wages of an employee working for one's spouse are exempt from federal unemployment tax [5] Joint and family-related rights: Joint filing of bankruptcy permitted; Joint parenting rights, such as access to children's school records; Family visitation rights for the spouse and non-biological children, such as to visit a spouse in a hospital or prison
The National Association of Women Lawyers was instrumental in convincing the American Bar Association to create a Family Law section in many state courts, and pushed strongly for no-fault divorce law around 1960 (cf. Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act). In 1969, California became the first U.S. state to pass a no-fault divorce law. [15]
Like Louisiana, various states have statutes requiring the parties to live apart from one another for a certain predetermined period of time. [4] [17] The reason the time limitation exists is to see if the couple can reconcile. [4] For example, differing from Louisiana, Pennsylvania state law does not permit legal separation. [18]
Employees can’t be forced “to make the hard choice between keeping their jobs and caring for themselves or their families,” a labor official in Atlanta said.
In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
This is most common in states with community property laws. This means that a surviving spouse must pay the debts of the deceased spouse using jointly-held property, such as a home.
In the United States, common-law marriage, also known as sui juris marriage, informal marriage, marriage by habit and repute, or marriage in fact is a form of irregular marriage that survives only in seven U.S. states and the District of Columbia along with some provisions of military law; plus two other states that recognize domestic common law marriage after the fact for limited purposes.