Ira Mark Ellman

Biographic Data

ID4127095
NAMEIra Mark Ellman
GIVEN NAMESIra Mark
FAMILY NAMEEllman
SIGNATUREELLMAN I M
AFFILIATIONSArizona State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Child support and the custodial mother’s move or remarriage

    Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford L BraverARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2015References: 2

    Whether a custodial motherâ s new husband earns more or less than the father, economic realities ensure his income will usually affect the childâ s financial well-being, sometimes dramatically. The stepfatherâ s daily contact with the child may be more than the fatherâ s, possibly burdening father's relationship with his child, especially if mother moves with stepfather and child to a distant location. Nonetheless, the law does not usually consid…

  • Child Support Judgments

    Ira Mark Ellman, Steve Mckay et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Law…2014References: 2

    Any child support regime necessarily makes policy choices about how parental income should be shared between the two parental households. Those choices involve balancing the claims of the child, the claims of the custodial parent for help with the expense of providing for the child, and the claims of the support obligor for autonomy in deciding how to spend his own earnings. That balancing task is complicated by the fact that the child and the cu…

  • Public intuitions about fair child support allocations

    Sanford L Braver, Ira Mark Ellman et al.ARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2014Cited by: 1References: 3

    Nearly all American states use one of two systems for setting the amount of child support that noncustodial parents (NCPs) are required to pay to custodial parents (CPs). In previous work, we found that lay judgments of the child support amount the law should require differ in meaningful ways from these two systems: Our respondents favored child support amounts that are more responsive to the NCP’s income and much more responsive to the CP’s inco…

  • Moral intuitions about fault, parenting, and child custody after divorce

    Ashley M Votruba, Sanford L Braver et al.ARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2014Cited by: 1References: 3

    Allocations of child custody postdivorce are currently determined according to the best interest standard; that is, what is best for the child. Decisions about what is best for a child necessarily reflect cultural norms, at least in part. It is therefore useful as well as interesting to ask whether current understandings of the best interest standard align with moral intuitions of lay citizens asked to take the role of judge in hypothetical cases…

  • Abstract principles and concrete cases in intuitive lawmaking

    Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford L Braver et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2011

    Citizens awaiting jury service were asked a series of items, in Likert format, to determine their endorsement of various statements about principles to use in setting child support amounts. These twenty items were derived from extant child support systems, from past literature and from Ellman and Ellman's (2008) Theory of Child Support. The twenty items were found to coalesce into four factors (principles). There were pervasive gender differences…

  • Abstract principles and concrete cases in intuitive lawmaking

    Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford L Braver et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2011

    Citizens awaiting jury service were asked a series of items, in Likert format, to determine their endorsement of various statements about principles to use in setting child support amounts. These twenty items were derived from extant child support systems, from past literature and from Ellman and Ellman’s (2008) Theory of Child Support. The twenty items were found to coalesce into four factors (principles). There were pervasive gender differences…

  • Lay judgments about child custody after divorce

    Sanford L Braver, Ira Mark Ellman et al.ARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2011Cited by: 4

    In a pair of studies, we examine lay people's judgments about how hypothetical cases involving child custody after divorce should be resolved.The respondents were citizens called to jury service in Pima County, Arizona.Study 1 found that both male and female respondents, if they were the judge, would most commonly award equally shared custody arrangements, as advocated by most fathers' groups.However, if the predivorce child care had been divided…

  • Do Americans Play Football

    Ira Mark EllmanARTICLEInternational Journal of Law…2005

    The English approach to property and periodical awards in divorce cases, as exemplified by the decision in the McFarlane and Parlour cases, is compared to the American approach, as exemplified by the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, adopted in 2000 by the American Law Institute (ALI). It is suggested that these two English cases seem more alike to English courts than they would to American, because the English analysis places little o…

  • The Misguided Movement to Revive Fault Divorce, and Why Reformers Should Look Instead to the American Law Institute

    Ira Mark EllmanARTICLEInternational Journal of Law…1997

    Many American states allow unilateral no-fault divorce without significant waiting periods, and typically these states also exclude consideration of marital misconduct in the determination of financial awards at divorce. In recent years these laws have come under increasing criticism in both political and academic debates. This article examines those debates. It surveys the available social science evidence on whether such pure no-fault laws incr…

  • Can Others Exercise an Incapacitated Patient's Right to Die

    Ira Mark EllmanARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1990

    Ellman's article is one of four in this issue of the Hastings Center Report on the first right to die case to come before the U.S. Supreme Court. The author, a law professor, agrees with critics that the Missouri Supreme Court erred in Cruzan when it declined to grant the parents of a woman in a persistent vegetative state authority to halt her tube feedings. However, he believes that in order to overturn Cruzan, the U.S. Supreme Court would have…

  • Deciding for Others

    Alan Meisel, Ira Ellman et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1990

  • The Theory of Alimony

    Ira Mark EllmanARTICLECalifornia Law Review1989

    Although alimony has long been a feature of divorce law, there is no theory explaining why either spouse should have a financial obligation to the other that survives their marriage. Explanations based on gender roles, or assessments of blame for the marriage's failure, are inconsistent with modern attitudes. More recently, commentators and courts have suggested that contract or partnership concepts explain alimony obligations. In Part I of this …