Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal for Valuing Women?s Work Through Premarital Security Agreements

Ertman, Martha M.

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“…It was necessary to select formulas that used gross incomes in order to allow meaningful comparisons among strategies. The selected formulas included the Maricopa (Ellman, 1999), Kansas (Thompson, 2001), Singer (1989), Premarital security agreements (PSA) (Ertman, 1998), and the income-sharing formula (Rutheford, 1990).…”

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“…PSA (Ertman, 1998) specified that a distribution of 30% of the gross income differential between spouses be transferred from the primary wage earner for a duration of half the length of the marriage, plus the difference between 18 and the age of the youngest minor child. The transfer amount was calculated by subtracting the pre-divorce gross incomes, as provided in the final decree, then multiplying by .30.…”

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“…Theorists and practitioners have proposed alternative formulas for income distributions at divorce (Collins, 2001;Goldfarb, 1989;Rutheford, 1990;Spillane, 1998), and have demonstrated their consequences using case studies (Collins, 2001;Ertman, 1998;Starnes, 1993;Williams, 1994). However, the formulas have not been tested on a large number of cases from actual court records, researchers have not applied several formulas to the same cases (Daniels, 2004), and have seldom used several justice principles to interpret the results (Rettig & Dahl, 1993;Rettig, Tam, & Magistad, 1996).…”

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Alternative Formulas for Distributing Parental Incomes at Divorce

2006

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The current study applied five formulas for distributing parental incomes at divorce to 414 court case records in Minnesota and evaluated which formulas and actual court orders provided sufficient incomes for male and female-headed households. The study further explored influences of pre-divorce gross income levels, household/genders, and lengths of marriage on the post-divorce income-to-needs ratios (ITN) produced by the five formulas and actual court orders, using MANOVA. Results were interpreted using distributive justice principles of equity, needs, and contributions. Males have higher ITN with each alternative, except the income-sharing formula. The actual court orders and the income-sharing formula produce the largest discrepancy between male and female ITN and the highest percentage of females living below poverty level guidelines. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006divorce, income distributions, spousal support.,

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“…This crossover popularity is possible because of the extraordinary breadth of Zelizer's expertise, encompassing such diverse topics as life insurance, adoption, and adult intimate relationships (Zelizer 1979, 1985, 1994). I have used her analyses in my own work to argue that marketization can help alleviate power disparities both within families and among different types of families (Ertman 1998, 2003, 2007).…”

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For Both Love and Money: Viviana Zelizer's The Purchase of Intimacy

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2009

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Viviana Zelizer's recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005), presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships—a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. This essay describes Zelizer's critique of the reductionist “Hostile Worlds” and “Nothing But” approaches to economic exchange in intimate relationships and then explains her more three‐dimensional approach, “Connected Lives.” While Zelizer focuses on family law, the essay goes beyond that context, extending Zelizer's approach to transfers of genetic material and concluding that her approach could point toward a more equitable resolution of disputes in and about these markets.

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“…Cultural feminists, also referred to as substantive equality or difference feminists, disagree that alteration of formal rules will result in actual equality for women; equal treatment, they argue, disadvantages women because the baselines favor men (Ertman, 1998;Fineman, 1983). Cultural feminists claim that traditional religious, economic, political, and judicial institutions are masculinist by nature and masculinist in practice.…”

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Incorporating Feminist Theory and Insights Into a Restorative Justice Response to Sex Offenses

Hopkins

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2005

Violence Against Women

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Sex offenses, particularly nonpenetration sex offenses and acquaintance sexual assault, are all too common. Because these crimes reinforce women’s fear of crime and restrict spatial and social freedom, it is paramount for the justice system to act affirmatively; however, it does not. This article identifies several failures in the current response to these sex offenses. We describe the research demonstration project, RESTORE, operating in Pima County, Arizona, which uses a restorative justice response as a way of remedying some of those failures. Identifying central feminist insights that guided the development of that project, the article addresses concerns raised by feminists about the use of restorative justice for gendered violence. We conclude that most if not all of these concerns apply to cases of on going domestic violence—cases specifically excluded from the RESTORE program—rather than to cases of acquaintance sexual assault or nonpenetration sex offenses.

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Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal for Valuing Women?s Work Through Premarital Security Agreements

Cited by 5 publications

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Alternative Formulas for Distributing Parental Incomes at Divorce

Alternative Formulas for Distributing Parental Incomes at Divorce

For Both Love and Money: Viviana Zelizer's The Purchase of Intimacy

Incorporating Feminist Theory and Insights Into a Restorative Justice Response to Sex Offenses

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