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49 Seton Hall L. Rev. 353 (2018-2019)
Robot Love

handle is hein.journals/shlr49 and id is 353 raw text is: Robot Love By Margaret Ryznar* Researchers have been developing a sophisticated humanoid robot that people in the future may want to marry. A human-robot marriage would pose challenges to lawmakers, including whether robots could be granted custody of children or access to family bank accounts. Any intimate relationship between humans and robots, however, may pose challenges to the current understanding of family law. For skeptics of such a future, it remains an interesting thought experiment, nonetheless. L IN TR O D U CTIO N ............................................................................... 354 IIF AM ILY LAW FRAM EW ORK .......................................................... 357 III.ExTENDING FAMILY LAW TO ROBOT MARRIAGE ....................... 363 A . M arriage to R obots ......................................................... 364 B . D ivorce from R obots ...................................................... 370 IV .C O N CLU SIO N ............................................................................... 374 * Professor of Law, Indiana University McKinney School of Law. Thanks to Stuart Ford for suggestions on an earlier draft, as well as the Twelfth Annual Big Ten Junior Scholars Conference, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, where this paper received many helpful comments.