Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beyond fault and no-fault in the reform of marital dissolution law / Lynn D. Wardle -- Acity without duty, fault or shame / Scott FitzGibbon -- Partners, caregivers, and the constitutional substance of parenthood / David D. Meyer -- Custody law and the ALI's principles : a little history, a little policy, and some very tentative judgments / Robert J. Levy -- Undeserved trust : reflections on the ALI's treatment of de facto "parents" / Robin Fretwell Wilson -- Asymmetric parenthood / Katharine K. Baker -- Paying to stay home : on competing notions of fairness and the imputation of income / Mark Strasser -- The ALI property division principles : a model of radical paternalism? / John DeWitt Gregory -- Unprincipled family dissolution : the ALI's recommendations for division of property / David Westfall -- You and me against the world : marriage and divorce from creditors' perspective / Marie T. Reilly -- Back to the future : the perils and promise of a backward looking jurisprudence / June Carbone -- Money as emotion and the distribution of wealth at divorce / Katharine B. Silbaugh -- Postmodern marriage as seen through the lens of ALI's "compensatory payments" / Katherine Shaw Spaht -- Domestic partnership and default rules / Margaret F. Brinig -- Private ordering under the ALI principles : as natural as status / Martha M. Ertman -- Marriage matters : what's wrong with the ALI's domestic partnership proposal / Marsha Garrison -- Domestic partnership, implied contracts, and law reform / Elizabeth S. Scott -- The principles and Canada's "beyond conjugality" report : the move towards abolition of state marriage laws / Jane adolphe -- The ALI principles and agreements : seeking a balance between status and contract / Brian H. Bix -- The principles on agreements "fairness" and international human right law / Barbara Stark -- A formula for fool's gold : the illustrative child support formula in chapter 3 of the ALI's Principles / Maura D. corrigan -- A response to the principles' domestic partnership scheme / Jean Hoefer Toal -- Empowerment and responsibility : the balance sheet approach in the principles and English law / John Eekelaar -- The past caretaking standard in comparative perspective / Patrick Parkinson -- Compensating gain and loss in marriage : a Scandinavian comment on the ALI principles / Tone Sverdrup.