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In the case of In re Van Huss' Petition' the Tennessee Supreme Court denied an adoption under a literal interpretation of the residence requirements inserted into the adoption statutes in 1959. Under the 1959 statutes, although the petitioners in adoption proceedings were not required to make Tennessee their legal residence, they were required to "have lived, maintained a home and been physically present in Tennessee, or on federal territory within the boundaries of Tennessee for one (1) year next preceding the filing of the petition . - In the Van Huss case the petitioning husband met all of the other requirements of the adoption statutes. He had lived in Tennessee all of his life, and he and his wife maintained a residence within the state. During the year preceding the filing of the petition, however, he had been in naval service and had been stationed outside the state, having visited the state only during short periods of leave. The majority of the supreme court held that he did not meet the statutory requirements for this reason and denied the adoption. The court pointed out that adoption is entirely statutory in nature and that there must be strict compliance with all statutory requirements. The dissenting member of the court felt that the holding accomplished a result wholly unintended by the legislature and that many residents of the state who were temporarily called out of the state on business would be disqualified by this interpretation of the statutes.

During 1963, the Tennessee Supreme and Appellate Courts faced a wide variety of problems in the domestic relations field, but handed down no decisions of outstanding significance. The legislature made several minor revisions in relevant statutes, one of which may prove to be a rather important change in this state's divorce law.

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AbstractGrounded in literature review and an ethnographic study, this article examines contemporary Brazilian domestic life. Relations among women (employers and maids) and between women and men are analyzed with a focus on the home as a space in which gender, race, and class inequalities are constantly reproduced. The article argues that what happens in domestic life is constitutive of wider social divisions and that the domestic is a universe integral to the national social context. A case in point is the connection between the widespread use of paid domestic labor and the naturalization of black women as subservient, complementing the pairing of whiteness and class entitlement. Another case is the buffering role of maids in the development of gender conflicts in well-off homes, thus blurring gender hierarchies at a broader scale. Locating the domestic within the recent discussion on global domestic labor, the article compares particularities of Brazilian domestic life to those elsewhere.

Within the past year, there have been changes of formidable importance in many major areas of domestic relations, both nationally and in Virginia. This article will review the major judicial and legislative developments in family law in Virginia in the context of national domestic relations law, with an eye toward trends in Virginia.

Trial court judges have not traditionally been involved in facilitating negotiations in domestic relations cases. The move toward alternative dispute resolution presents opportunities to judges to involve themselves in assisting litigants and their attorneys to fashion agreements that are tailored to each family. This article examines the elements and variables inherent in settlement negotiations and domestic relations and makes suggestions for judges who host settlement conferences in family law cases.