Court Personalities and Impoverished Parents

Authors

Ezra Rosser, American University Washington College of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-19-2021

Journal

The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)

Issue

11

First Page

1

Last Page

2

Abstract

Professor Tonya Brito's in-depth examination of the pursuit of child support from poor fathers continues to pay significant dividends that extend well beyond family law. Producing Justice in Poor People's Courts: Four Models of State Legal Actors highlights the that differing personalities and approaches can have on impoverished parents involved in child-support-enforcement disputes before the courts. Based on an impressive ethnographic study, Brito's article shows how the actors involved craft stories about impoverished family dynamics as a way to make sense of their own role and complicity in an often unjust system of regulating poor families.

Recommended Citation

Ezra Rosser, Court Personalities and Impoverished Parents, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) 1 (2021).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/2070