User:CheshireKatz/Family
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- What's a family?
- Nuclear: Mom/Dad/Kids
- Extended: Nuc+Grandparents/Aunts&Uncles/Cousins/Nephews&Nieces/Grandkids
- Children & care-providers
- Married couples?
- Formal models
- Exclusive family (current) - married, opposite sex, parents
- Advantages: Simple, Less litigation
- Disadvantages: Excludes lots of alternative family models.
- Caretaking family
- Advantages: Focused on rights/interests of children and those who invest/care (as opposed to benefit)
- Disadvantages: Undermines parents' rights, parents may resist external assistance
- Family rights
- Right to inherit thru intestacy & against disinheritance
- Preference as executor
- Wrongful death claims
- Loss of consortium
- Workers comp service benefits
- Spousal benefits - health, life insurance, disability
- Life insurance, health insurance
- Evidenciary privilege
- Homestead protection
- Joint ownership of property
- Hospital visitation rights
- Financial rights upon divorce
