Family Choices

Courtney G. Joslin, Autonomy in the Family, 66 UCLA L. Rev. 912 (2019), available at SSRN.

Brian Bix

What is the role of autonomy (choice) in American marriage law, and what should it be? This question is salient for topics like the proper treatment of premarital and marital agreements, but, as Courtney Joslin points out in her article, Autonomy in the Family, it also has clear importance for the proper treatment of non-marital cohabitants.

As Joslin reports, the basic contemporary approach to the […]