Contemporary Family Law

Author : Douglas Abrams,Naomi Cahn,Linda McClain,Catherine Ross,Kaiponanea Matsumura,Jessica Weaver
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642428604

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Contemporary Family Law by Douglas Abrams,Naomi Cahn,Linda McClain,Catherine Ross,Kaiponanea Matsumura,Jessica Weaver Pdf

This popular family law casebook engages students by presenting core family law doctrine while exploring significant transformations in American families and cutting-edge policy debates. It highlights the important role of constitutional law--and other areas of state and federal law--in shaping family law. The book invites students to consider questions of family definition and governmental regulation of families in light of family law's purposes. It charts family law's evolving approach to adult-adult and parent-child (and other caretaker-dependent) relationships, emphasizing that contemporary families take a variety of forms. The Sixth Edition updates all chapters to reflect the latest family law developments, such as the legal treatment of nonmarital families (including plural relationships) and nonbiological parenting as well as recent Supreme Court decisions. It integrates material previously covered in separate chapters on ethical issues in family law practice and jurisdiction into the contexts in which they arise, such as divorce, child custody, and division of marital property. The Sixth Edition has new material highlighting the intersection of family law with race, gender, class, immigration, sexual orientation, and gender identity. As with previous editions, the casebook contains ample problems for students to apply doctrine to realistic factual contexts and highlights practical dynamics of family law practice. The 6th edition: Thoroughly examines the impact of recent Supreme Court cases on family law, including Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (and provides teachers with shorter and longer versions of that case), and Golan v. Saada Includes attention to the role of race and racism in laws that shape and regulate the family, with case law addressing marriage, divorce, and inheritance rights of formerly enslaved persons and a post-Loving v. Virginia case challenging the continued requirement that couples disclose race on a marriage license Provides a restructured chapter on the legal consequences of marriage, spousal roles within marriage, and the gender revolution within family law and related fields Includes new developments on marriage requirements, including state minimum age laws and common-law marriage rules, and addresses First Amendment challenges, post-Masterpiece Cakeshop, to civil marriage equality and state antidiscrimination laws Includes new coverage of the intersection of immigration and family law Addresses changes in legal approaches to nonmarital families, including multi-adult domestic partnerships and the Uniform Cohabitants' Economic Remedies Act Provides updated treatment of custody and parenting time issues, including parenting gender-expansive children Provides a restructured chapter on intimate partner violence (IPV), including updates on various factors impacting IPV and shifting gun control statutes and caselaw affecting civil protection orders Provides new consideration of child support issues, including joint custody and subsequent families Provides revised problems in anticipation of the NextGen Bar Exam

Author : Douglas E. Abrams
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064153179

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Contemporary Family Law by Douglas E. Abrams Pdf

Contemporary Family Law is the first family law casebook entirely conceived and written in the twenty-first century. The text captures the rapid evolution of doctrine, introduces students to emerging policy debates, and explores issues that arise in family law practice including the importance of collaborating with professionals from other disciplines. The book emphasizes that families take a variety of forms, including marital and nonmarital relationships, and that constitutional considerations play an increasingly important role in family law. Contemporary Family Law includes several chapters that do not appear in most other family law casebooks. For example, it devotes separate chapters to lawyering, private ordering, and alternative dispute resolution. And, in contrast to the usual approach, the book treats property distribution and alimony in separate chapters to emphasize each topic's distinctive theoretical and practical aspects. Moreover, because child custody arrangements lead to some of the most acrimonious legal disputes, this casebook devotes two separate chapters to custody: the first treats the initial custody decision, and the second explores disputes that arise over visitation, custody, and key childrearing decisions after the initial disposition. In addition, the book emphasizes the importance of legal practice issues by placing the lawyering chapter at the beginning of the book, and by using problems that enable students to apply doctrine.

Author : James Gary McLeod,Martha Shaffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 0779814347

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Contemporary Issues in Family Law by James Gary McLeod,Martha Shaffer Pdf

Author : Archana Parashar,Francesca Dominello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107561793

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The Family in Law by Archana Parashar,Francesca Dominello Pdf

This book challenges conventional boundaries of family law providing a solid foundation and edge to students' understanding of the topic.

Author : Frances Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781317906414

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Family Law by Frances Burton Pdf

Family Law provides a comprehensive foundation in the key topics covered by courses. It explains the basic principles of the law and practice in their social, economic and historic context, enabling the reader to understand the doctrinal and practical impact of current radical changes in family law in response to cultural and other influences. This second edition has been fully updated in the light of on-going changes to the family justice system including: the modernisation of family justice including the new Family Court Atypical formation of the contemporary family: genetic, adoptive, social or through HAR the proposed administrative extra-judicial divorce process financial orders on married and unmarried family relationship breakdown enhanced parental responsibility, ‘Parental Agreements’ and ‘Child Arrangement Orders’ the treatment of post separation parenting (and the new DWP child support system) reforms to public child law, including changes to adoption same-sex marriage and the impact on traditional marriage and cohabitation Visit the companion website for practice questions, updates to the law and podcasts by the author at http://www.routledge.com/cw/burton-9780415583640

Author : Shazia Choudhry,Jonathan Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107167537

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The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law by Shazia Choudhry,Jonathan Herring Pdf

Offers a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing family law globally, and explores how different countries have tackled them.

Author : W. C. M. Maqutu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122706679

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Contemporary Family Law by W. C. M. Maqutu Pdf

Author : Sanford N. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199759224

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Family Law in America by Sanford N. Katz Pdf

This volume examines the state of family law in America. Among its themes is the tension between individual autonomy and governmental regulation in all aspects of family law. It examines both conventional and new definitions of formal and informal domestic relationships.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN : 0815622783

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Women in Muslim Family Law by John L. Esposito Pdf

Expands and updates family law as it pertains to women with regard to marriage, divorce and inheritance throughout the Middle East.This second revised edition of John L. Esposito's landmark work expands and updates coverage of family law reforms -- marriage, divorce, and inheritance -- throughout the Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : James Dwyer
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Casebooks. $2 lcgft
ISBN : 1454813660

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Family Law by James Dwyer Pdf

Family Law emphasizes the issues and skills most relevant to domestic relations practice. The text employs a novel and dramatic organization with three substantive units that compare the legal treatment of the parent-child relationship vs. adult intimate relationships at stages of formation, regulation, and dissolution. In keeping with the modern reorientation of the field, Family Law reflects the transition "From Partners to Parents" beginning with the creation of parent-child relationship rather than marriage. Its geographical breadth delivers more comparative materials than other texts, using examples from a variety of cultures to provoke "why don't we do this?" considerations. Each student-friendly chapter and section begins with a clear summary of current law that orients the reader before examining legal texts in detail. This structure invites theoretical critique only after a solid foundation is laid. Statutes are core to the text which gives proper emphasis to the vital skill of statutory interpretation in todays practice. Up-to-date material provides more recent cases than any other textbook. With an empirical emphasis, Family Law draws from the significant literature in sociology, psychology, anthropology and other fields so that legal analysis is grounded in real-life application. Focused questions direct students to the heart of the analysis, often using headings before questions to alert readers to the type of analysis required, for example: statutory interpretation, policy, client counseling, and moral theory. Features: Novel organization three substantive units compares legal treatment of parent-child relationship vs. adult intimate relationships considers stages of formation, regulation, and dissolution Reflects modern reorientation of the field in keeping with transition "From Partners to Parents" starts with creation of parent-child relationship rather than marriage Geographical breadth much more comparative material than current texts examples from other cultures lead to "why don't we do this?" considerations Student-friendly organization each chapter and section begins with clear summary of current law orients students before examining legal texts invites theoretical critique after foundation is laid Statutes at the core proper emphasis on the vital skill of statutory interpretation Up-to-date more recent cases than any other textbook Empirical emphasis draws from sociology, psychology, anthropology, and other fields grounds legal analysis in real world application Focused questions direct students to the heart of the analysis use headings to alert students as to the type of analysis required (e.g., statutory interpretation, policy, client counseling, moral theory)

Author : Peter N. Swisher,H. Anthony Miller,Helene S. Shapo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 1422429652

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Family Law by Peter N. Swisher,H. Anthony Miller,Helene S. Shapo Pdf

Family Law addresses contemporary family law issues and analyzes the public and private dichotomy in contemporary family law relationships. Current family law topics addressed in this book include: Marriage and marriage alternatives Support and property rights Conception and reproduction issues Domestic violence and intrafamily torts Care and supervision of children Adoption and termination of parental rights Legitimacy and paternity Divorce or dissolution of marriage Economic consequences of divorce, including spousal and child support, equitable distribution of marital and community property and a discussion of the American Law Institute's proposed principles of the law of family dissolution Child custody and visitation, including a discussion of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act and the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act Premarital and postmarital agreements Alternative dispute resolution Ethical issues for the family lawyer While addressing many cutting-edge family law issues, this family law casebook still maintains a realistic balance between theory and practice. The format is manageable, condensed, and user-friendly. Each topic includes a general introduction, a current or landmark illustrative judicial decision, relevant notes and questions analyzing, extending, or questioning each topic, and problems allowing students to analyze particular family law issues and disputes as practitioners, legislators, or jurists would. A Teacher's Manual is available to professors.

Author : Samia Bano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Dispute resolution (Law)
ISBN : 1512600350

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Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes by Samia Bano Pdf

How mediation and religious dispute-resolution mechanisms operate within diverse communities

Author : J. N. D. Anderson
Publisher : Studies on Modern Asia and Africa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032152737

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Family Law in Asia and Africa by J. N. D. Anderson Pdf

Originally published in 1968, we were witnessing a new - and welcome - emphasis on Comparative Law, both in the Universities and even the practising profession, together with a quickened interest in the law of family relations. This volume provided a wealth of information for anyone wishing to study these relations in a widely comparative context. The chapters cover not only the basic law of marriage and divorce in a number of developing countries both in Asia and Africa, but also discuss in considerable detail the ways in which matrimonial property is regulated under different systems. This was a highly topical subject at the time, when our own law of matrimonial property was under criticism and active reconsideration. The book also treats such subjects as the eclipse of the patriarchal family in contemporary Islamic law, religious law and the modern family in Israel, the juristic basis and context of Parsi family law, and contemporary family law in Southern Africa.

Author : D. Kelly Weisberg,Susan Frelich Appleton
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 0735584648

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Modern Family Law by D. Kelly Weisberg,Susan Frelich Appleton Pdf

Offering complete and even more concise coverage that includes contemporary issues of debate, Weisberg and Appleton integrate rich interdisciplinary materials with great teaching cases, notes, and problems. Engaging narratives reveal the fascinating background behind the cases and connect students to the impact of the law on people's lives. Written with sensitivity to issues of gender, race, and class, Modern Family Law, Fourth edition, features: probing coverage that reflects the social diversity of modern families a candid examination of the development of family law in response to the women's movement the children's rights movement the fathers' rights movement domestic violence changing sexual mores nontraditional family forms developments in reproductive technology interdisciplinary perspectives throughout the text balanced coverage of contemporary themes and basic family law a variety of problem exercises, most derived from actual cases and events flexible organization adapts to shorter or longer courses Updated throughout, the Fourth Edition addresses recent developments in the law, addressing: ; Abortion, domestic violence, no-fault divorce reform, parentage, adoption and assisted reproduction same-sex marriage, civil unions and same-sex divorce major new cases, such as Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, holding unconstitutional the exclusion of same-sex couples from the right to marry Gonzales v. Carhart, upholding the constitutionality of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act post-Lawrence v. Texas developments relevant to sexual behavior Recent amendments to FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) and VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) Now in its Fourth Edition, Weisberg and Appleton’s Modern Family Law reflects a progressive and inclusive perspective that recognizes how the diversity of today’s families challenges traditional legal concepts and principles.

Author : Masha Antokolskaia,Carol Rogerson,Joanna Miles,Patrick Parkinson,Machteld Vonk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9462369275

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Family Law and Family Realities by Masha Antokolskaia,Carol Rogerson,Joanna Miles,Patrick Parkinson,Machteld Vonk Pdf

Family Law and Family Realities contains a selection of papers presented at the 16th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL) that took place in 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The central theme of this volume is whether international and national family laws still adequately reflect changing family realities. The issues are examined in different geographical, political, social, cultural and religious settings, giving insight into how family laws relate to the actual practices and needs of different types of traditional and non-traditional families and to the distinct needs of vulnerable family members. Contributors come from Western and Eastern Europe, Israel, Africa, North and South America, Australasia and Asia. Specific topics addressed in the early chapters include cohabitation, same-sex relationships, polyamory, stepfamilies, ART, and the financial and parenting issues raised by divorce. Subsequent chapters deal with a wide range of new issues related to protecting the interests of children (e.g. cultural identity, gender identity, migration, the internet) and to providing care for the elderly and persons with disabilities.