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Fault and Spousal Support
Spousal support, otherwise known as alimony or maintenance, originated in Anglo-American law as a result of a confluence of diverse laws and social circumstances tied inexorably to the unique law of coverture that had prevailed in England from the late medieval ...
- Children, Families, and Parenting
- Absentee Parents
- Adult Children: Relationships
- Adult Children: Relationships With Parents
- Birdnesting
- Blended and Binuclear Families
- Children as Caretakers
- Children Blaming Themselves for Divorce
- Children, Staying Married for
- Children: Benefits of Divorce
- Children: Risk for Early Sexual Activity
- Children's Fear of Divorce
- Kinship and Foster Care
- Nuclear Family
- Parental Alienation
- Parental Dating
- Parenting Adolescents
- Parenting Coordinators
- Parenting Early School-Age Children
- Parenting Infants
- Parenting Late School-Age Children
- Parenting Preschoolers
- Parenting Toddlers
- Relocation Effects on Children
- Single and Custodial Fathers
- Single and Custodial Mothers
- Stepparent–Child Relationships
- Stepparenting
- Stepparents After a Second Divorce
- Stepsibling Relationships
- Substance Abuse in Children of Divorce
- Culture, Society, and Popular Media
- African Americans
- Asian Americans
- Bigamy
- Celebrity Divorces
- Child Support: Social Issues
- Childbearing Decisions
- Collectivism
- Comedy About Divorce
- Commitment
- Covenant Marriage
- Cultural Sociology of Divorce
- Culture of Divorce
- Divorce Rates Versus Crime Rates
- Empty-Shell Marriages
- Gender and Divorce
- Glamorization of Divorce
- Hispanic and Latino Americans
- Individualism
- Internet as a Cause of Divorce
- Juvenile Delinquency
- LGBT Marriage
- Literature: Adult
- Literature: Children's
- Marriage: Avoidance
- Marriage: Multicultural
- Marriage: Multiracial
- Monogamy
- Music
- Native Americans
- Politicians and Divorce
- Polyamory
- Polygamy
- Poverty
- Relationships
- Social Change
- Social Networks
- Social Problem, Divorce as a
- Social Stigma
- Television Shows
- Theater and Film
- Economics and Law
- “Deadbeat” Parents
- Abduction and Kidnapping of Children
- California's Family Law Act of 1969
- Child Advocates
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Child Support: Government Enforcement
- Children's Legal Rights
- College Financial Support for Children
- Costs of Divorce
- Custody: Children's Voices
- Custody: Schedules
- Custody: Shared and Joint
- Custody: Sole
- Debt Division
- Fault and Child Custody
- Fault and Property Division
- Fault and Spousal Support
- Financial Hardships
- Gender and Divorce Law
- Grandparents' Legal Rights
- Judges: Family Law
- Law: Asian Traditions
- Law: Comparative Perspectives
- Law: Hispanic Traditions
- Law: Islamic Traditions
- Law: Negotiating Tactics
- Law: United Kingdom
- Law: United States
- Lawyers
- Length of Marriage: Divorce Law
- Mediators
- Palimony
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Property Distribution
- Property: Marital
- Separation: Legal
- Spousal Support and Alimony
- Stepparents' Custody Rights
- Uniform Marital Property Act
- Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act
- Visitation Rights
- Waiting Period
- Effects of Divorce
- Adult Children: Effects of Divorce
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Adolescents
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Early School-Age
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Infants
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Late School-Age
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Preschoolers
- Children: Effects of Divorce on Toddlers
- Children: Immediate Effects of Divorce
- Children: Long-Term Effects of Divorce
- Families: Effects of Divorce
- Families: Extended
- Friends, Loss of
- Health: Adults' Physical
- Health: Children's Physical
- Job Performance
- Life Expectancy
- Maternal Employment: Effects on Children
- Mental Health
- Pain Versus Pathology
- School Performance of Children of Divorce
- History of Divorce and Marriage
- Africa
- Alimony Law, U.S.
- Asia
- Colonial America
- Common-Law Marriage
- Custody: U.S. Law
- Europe
- Grounds for Divorce, U.S.
- Historical Figures and Divorce
- Marriage: History
- Middle Ages
- Origins of Divorce
- Property Division Law, U.S.
- Roman Empire
- Scholars of Divorce
- United States: 1800 to 1850
- United States: 1851 to 1900
- United States: 1901 to 1950
- United States: 1951 to 2012
- Psychology
- Abandonment: Children's Fears
- Adult Children: Fear of Commitment
- Alone, Fear of Being
- Attachment and Loss
- Attachment to Former Partner
- Attachment: Parent–Child
- Children: Fear of Conflict
- Children's Fear of Change
- Counseling and Education: Divorce
- Counseling and Education: Marriage
- Counseling and Education: Premarital
- Depression in Children of Divorce
- Depression in Divorced Adults
- Family Systems Theory
- Grief and Grieving
- Loneliness
- Psychotherapy for Adults
- Psychotherapy for Children
- Psychotherapy for Families
- Suicide Risk
- Support Groups
- Religion
- Risks for and Causes of Divorce
- Abandonment or Desertion
- Abuse of Children: Sexual
- Abuse of Children: Verbal and Physical
- Addiction
- Adultery and Infidelity
- Age at Marriage
- Alcoholism
- Children as a Risk for Divorce
- Cohabitation Before Marriage
- Death of a Child
- Disability and Illness
- Domestic Violence
- Education Level and Divorce Risk
- Ethnicity and Race in the United States
- Finances
- Growing Apart
- Infertility
- Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce
- Irreconcilable Differences
- Length of Marriage: Risk of Divorce
- Marriage: Sexual Problems
- Maternal Employment: Risk of Divorce
- Men as Initiators of Divorce
- Mental Cruelty
- Midlife Crisis
- Military Service
- No-Fault Divorce Versus Divorce Rates
- Religion: Lack of or Different Faiths
- Risk Factors
- Second Marriages
- Sexual Orientation
- Women as Initiators of Divorce
- Workaholism
- Types of Divorce
- Pro Se Divorce
- Absolute Divorce
- Annulment
- At-Fault Divorce
- Childless Divorce
- Collaborative Divorce
- Electronic Divorce
- Informal Divorce
- International Divorce
- Late-Life Divorce
- LGBT Divorce
- Mediated Divorce
- No-Fault Divorce
- Separation: Trial
- Simplified Divorce
- Therapeutic Divorce
- Typologies of Divorce
- Uncontested Versus Contested Divorce
- U.S. States
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- United Kingdom
- United States: 1800 to 1850
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- United States: 1951 to 2012
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- Zambia
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