Love's Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)

by Martha M. Ertman

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Blends memoir and legal cases to show how contracts can create family relationships
 
Most people think of love and contracts as strange bedfellows, or even opposites. In Love’s Promises, however, law professor Martha Ertman shows that far from cold and calculating, contracts shape and sustain families. 

Blending memoir and law, Ertman delves into the legal cases, anecdotes, and history of family law to show that love comes in different packages, each shaped by different contracts and mini-contracts she calls “deals.” Family law should and often does recognize that variety because legal rules, like relationships, aren’t one size...Read more
  • ISBN10 0807033669
  • ISBN13 9780807033661
  • Publish Date 26 May 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 6 December 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beacon Press