LGST 3310

This course examines the legal context within which people develop and have personal relationships. From conception and gestation, through childhood, the teen years, adulthood and ultimately death, one has a series of relationships with others, and all of these relationships are shaped by the law. The course will examine how these relationships are shaped by law from conception through childhood, the teenage years, adult years and the last years of life. Along the way, the course will examine the legal status of the fetus and child, parental rights and responsibilities relating to children, the development of sexual relationships, marriage and marriage-like relationships, the breakdown of relationships, and ultimately later in life issues like adult incapacity and guardianship, wills and estates.