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Ira Ellman Family Dissolution papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
ALI.10.005
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Extent:
3 linear feet
Language:
English
Date:
1970 august-2000 june (inclusive) and 1992-1998 (bulk)
Creator:
American Law Institute and Ellman, Ira Mark
Abstract:
The Ira Ellman Family Dissolution Papers house the correspondence and printed material of the Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute on the ten year study of the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. The collection chronicles Ellman's term as Chief Reporter on the Project starting in 1991 and ranging until the study's completion in 2001. A majority of the collection is composed of printed material of various sources and Principle drafts, as well as some correspondence between Ellman and a variety of law professors concerning the process of creating tentative drafts on the issue of family dissolution. The subject of all of these documents dealt with sub-topics of family dissolution. A large number of drafts of the Principles of Family Dissolution compose the collection. The collection looks at the treatment of partners, division of property, private agreements and formal contracts, child support and custodial responsibility.

Ira Ellman served as the Chief Reporter for the American Law Institute's 10-year study on the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. Professor Ellman spent the majority of his career researching, teaching, and advising legislative bodies about Family Law.

Professor Ellman earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Psychology before completing his JD at the University of California Berkley in 1973. Ellman served as a legislative aide to Senator Adlai Stevenson III and then as a clerk for US Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Professor Ellman joined the faculty of Arizona State University Law School in 1978, and he was a visiting professor for a semester or more at the Hastings College of Law, Brooklyn Law School, the Institute for Social and Public Policy Studies at Yale University, Trinity College at University of Cambridge, and at both University of California, Berkley's Earl Warren Institute and the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He has also written on health care law and served as a founding member of the Bioethics Committee of Good Samaritan Medical Center in Pheonix, AZ.

The Ira Ellman Family Dissolution Papers, 1970-2011, consists of materials related to Ira Ellman's research and drafting activities as Chief Reporter of the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution study for the American Law Institute. The collection includes primarily printed materials followed by correspondence related to the ten-year long study and his term as Chief Reporter for this project. The bulk of the collection was comprised from 1992 to 1998. The collection is divided into four series: Topics in Family Dissolution, ALI Involvement, Drafts, and Annual Meetings.

Series 1: Topics in Family Dissolution, 1977-2002, contains correspondence and research materials compiled by Ellman and is organized into three subseries.

Subseries 1: Cases, 1977-1998, contains reprinted and photocopied case summaries organized alphabetically by the topic of cases.

Subseries 2: Correspondence, 1989-2002, contains correspondence materials between Ellman and fellow Family Law project Reporter's Bartlett and Blumberg in addition to members of the Uniform Probate Code's Joint Editorial Board and ALI consultative group members concerning the process of drafting and comments organized alphabetically by subject.

Subseries 3: Research and Drafting, 1974-2000, contains research materials and annotated ALI draft materials created by Ellman, ALI Colleagues and other colleagues.

Series 2: American Law Insititute Drafting materials, 1970-2001, contains correspondence, annotated drafts, comments, conference, and research material between Ellman and his ALI colleagues.

Series 3: Drafts, 1992-2000, contains chapter level to Council, Preliminary, and Tentative bound drafts created for ALI review.

Series 4: Annual Meetings, 1995-2000; 2010, contains discussion materials and notes from ALI Annual Meeting sessions concerning the Family Dissolution projects, and the series also includes preparatory materials for a 2010 reporter's event.

I. Topics in Family Dissolution
II. American Law Institute Drafting Material
III. Drafts
IV. Annual Meetings

Processed by Whitney Hoyos Reprocessed by Abigail Boyer (2024)

Records of the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations

Subject

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Finding Aid Author
Whitney Hoyos; Abigail Boyer (2024)
Finding Aid Date
Revised 2024

Collection Inventory

Alimony Cases, 1977 April-1994 April.
Box 1 Folder 1
Alimony Cases, June 1978-October 1993.
Box 1 Folder 2
Compensation Grounds, 1985 January-1985 April.
Box 1 Folder 3
Marital Home, 1989 July-1998 February.
Box 1 Folder 4
Opportunity Cost, 1989 January-1991 June.
Box 1 Folder 5
Pension, 1981 March-1991 June.
Box 1 Folder 6
Adoption of no-fault divorce article review by Ellman for Journal of Policy History, 2002.
Box 1 Folder 7
Agreements: Kate Bartlett memorandum and correspondence with Ellman , 1999.
Box 1 Folder 8
Chapter 7 Agreements memos & articles, 1989-1999.
Box 1 Folder 9
Child Support, 1994 January-1995 October.
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence and articles from Anders Agell on registered partnership of homosexual couples in Swedish Law, 1994-1997.
Box 1 Folder 11
Distribution, 1990 February-1995 March.
Box 1 Folder 12
Family Law Background, 1998 October.
Box 1 Folder 13
Marital Home, 1998 September-2000 June.
Box 2 Folder 1
Opportunity Cost, 1992 June.
Box 2 Folder 2
Probate Act, 1991 October.
Box 2 Folder 3
Waggoner's Uniform Probate Code non-marital cohabitation drafts, correspondence, and responses, 1993-1997.
Box 2 Folder 4
Child Support, 1994.
Box 2 Folder 5
Distribution, 1991-1995.
Box 2 Folder 6
Economic Data, 1984 March-1992 June.
Box 2 Folder 7
Economic Data, May 1984- February 1992.
Box 2 Folder 8
Family Law Background, 1989 January-1998 June.
Box 2 Folder 9
Family Law Background, January 1989- June 1998.
Box 2 Folder 10
Marital Home, 1995 January-2000 June.
Box 3 Folder 1
Marital Tort/Fault, 1974 January-1996 July.
Box 3 Folder 2
Miscellaneous Notes, undated.
Box 3 Folder 3
Pension, 1986 January-1993 March.
Box 3 Folder 4
Probate Act, 1988 December-1991 January.
Box 3 Folder 5
Property , 1995 April-1995 May .
Box 3 Folder 6
Opportunity Cost, January 1985-January 1995 .
Box 3 Folder 7
Opportunity Cost, May 1992-April 1993.
Box 3 Folder 8
Opportunity Cost, January 1984-January 1991.
Box 3 Folder 9
Transmutation, 1991 May.
Box 3 Folder 10

Accounting Material, 1970 August-1994 January.
Box 3 Folder 11
Accounting Material, 1994 October.
Box 3 Folder 12
Advisors' Comments--Chapters, 1991 January-1996 September.
Box 3 Folder 13
Advisors' Comments -- Chapters, November 1991-September 1996.
Box 4 Folder 1
Advisors' Comments--Chapters, September 1991-January 1995.
Box 4 Folder 2
Advisors' Comments--Chapters, January 1991-August 1996.
Box 4 Folder 3
Advisors' Comments--Chapters, October 1991-December 1994.
Box 4 Folder 4
Chapter Notes, 1991 October.
Box 4 Folder 5
Chapter Sources, 1992 November-1995 April.
Box 4 Folder 6
Chapter Sources, January 1993-February 1995.
Box 4 Folder 7
Cohabitation post council draft updates, 1997-1998.
Box 4 Folder 8
Conference Materials, 1990 January.
Box 4 Folder 9
Correspondence, comments and suggestions to Family Dissolution drafts, 1997-2001.
Box 4 Folder 10
Council Committee drafting comments, 1998-2000.
Box 4 Folder 11
Draft Commentary--Notes, 1994 December.
Box 5 Folder 1
Ellman draft memos, 1999-2000.
Box 5 Folder 2
Family Law Council Draft 5 comments and suggestions, 1988-1999.
Box 5 Folder 3
Fault: Correspondence and annotated sections of drafts, 1996, 1999.
Box 5 Folder 4
Hazard's Comments, 1993 July-1997 October. 1 Folder(s).
Box 5 Folder 5
Physical Description

1 Folder(s)

Meeting Info, 1993 January-1998 August.
Box 5 Folder 6
Meetings, 1995 October.
Box 5 Folder 7
Notes and annotated discussion of chapter 5 discussion draft sections 1-17, 1995-1996.
Box 5 Folder 8
Preliminary Draft 8 Chapter 4 Section 15 edits and Chapter 6 comments, 1997-1998.
Box 5 Folder 9
Property Forms, 1991 October-1993 February.
Box 5 Folder 10
Valuation Date Material , 1993 January.
Box 5 Folder 11

Chapter 4, undated.
Box 5 Folder 11
Chapter 4, undated .
Box 5 Folder 12
Chapter 5, May 1992.
Box 5 Folder 13
Chapter 5, 1993 July.
Box 6 Folder 1
Chapter 6 Cohabitation revisions, 1998.
Box 6 Folder 2
Council Draft 1, 1993 November.
Box 6 Folder 3
Council Draft 5, 1998 October.
Box 6 Folder 4
Council Draft 6, 1999 November.
Box 6 Folder 5
Preliminary Draft Chapter 4, 1994 December-1995 January.
Box 6 Folder 6
Preliminary Draft 1, 1990 October.
Box 6 Folder 7
Preliminary Draft 3, 1992 September.
Box 7 Folder 1
Preliminary Draft 4, 1993 September.
Box 7 Folder 2
Preliminary Draft 8, 1998 June.
Box 7 Folder 3
Tentative Draft 3 part 2, 1998 April.
Box 7 Folder 4
Tentative Draft 4, 2000 April.
Box 7 Folder 5
Tentative Draft Chapter 4, undated.
Box 7 Folder 6

American Law Institute Annual Meeting family dissolution discussion transcript, May-June 1995.
Box 8 Folder 1
American Law Institute Annual Meeting Family dissolution discussion transcript, May 1996.
Box 8 Folder 2
American Law Institute Annual Meeting family dissolution discussion materials and transcript, 2000.
Box 8 Folder 3
American Law Institute project reporters preparation materials for event, 2010-2011.
Box 8 Folder 4

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