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- ↑ Frommer, Benjamin (2020). "Privileged Victims: Intermarriage between Jews, Czechs, and Germans in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia". In Edgar, Adrienne; Frommer, Benjamin (eds.). Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 47–82. ISBN 978-1-4962-0211-6.
- ↑ Statsky, William P. (4 March 2020). Family Law. Cengage Learning. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-337-91761-2.
- ↑ "The sham marriages – and divorces – built on China's property market". South China Morning Post. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2020.