Family Law
Parentage, sperm donation, surrogacy, paternity, more than two legal parents, and protection from domestic abuse.
1:39Brief
What Are the Risks of Sperm Donation?
What known and anonymous sperm donors should know about parentage, child support, and donor agreements
1:34Brief
Who owns your sperm after you die?
Frozen sperm, consent, and whether a child conceived after death can inherit.
8:00Brief
Sperm Donor Parental Rights
When sperm and egg donors are, and are not, legal parents, and why the answer still depends on the state.
14:28Brief
Surrogacy – Legal Risks
Parentage judgments, interstate birth certificates, surrogate autonomy, and gestational vs. genetic surrogacy.
5:18Brief
Acknowledgement of Paternity
How unmarried fathers establish parentage, why the form is so binding, and where DNA tests fit in.
7:33Brief
More Than Two Legal Parents?
From Michael H. v. Gerald D. to three-parent judgments: how parentage law recognizes multi-parent families.
12:55Brief
Restricting Guns in Cases of Domestic Violence
How federal and state law disarm domestic abusers, the boyfriend loophole, the stalking gap, and Rahimi.
4:01Brief
Combatting Technology Abuse
How abusers misuse tracking, hacking, harassment, and control, and the safety and legal tools for survivors.
Go deeper: the full interviews
The full-length conversations behind this series.
- Assisted Reproduction and Parental RightsProf. Douglas NeJaime
- Abandoned DNA & the Ownership of SpermProf. Glenn Cohen
- Red Flag Laws & Domestic Violence OrdersProf. Jody Madeira
- Gun Rights under Rahimi & CargillProf. Joseph Blocher
- Empowering Women — Combatting Economic AbuseAmy Barasch
- The Leaked Opinion, Dobbs v. JacksonJoel Cohen