Product Description: In this book, Oldham, a professor who has taught Texas community property for 35 years, uses his expertise to survey important legal concepts relating to marital property. Most chapters contain introductory material regarding each topic, so students have some background before wading through cases...read more

Product Description: “A single-volume text that could replace most of the others.... Provides an invaluable education for new and experienced lawyers alike.” —Family AdvocateDivorce, Separation and the Distribution of Property has, as its primary focus, the difference between those states that allow divorce courts to divide all property owned by either party at divorce and those that permit the division only of property accumulated during marriage by spousal effort...read more

Product Description: The Uniform Law Commissioners have promulgated numerous proposed uniform laws pertaining to various family law topics. This volume, a collection of all these uniform laws, including the Reporters’ comments, could be used in any family law course...read more

Product Description: Designed for law school curriculum, edited by law school faculty, the Aspen Code Book, edited by faculty familiar with student needs and course requirements, is an economical and efficient solution to a student's statutory needs. The code book organizes in one place all of the state and federal statutes which a law student taking a specific course would like to have readily available for consultation...read more

Product Description: There has been a revolution in child support law in the last half-century, fueled by escalating numbers of divorces and children born to unmarried parents. This collection of essays examines the state of child support policy at the close of the twentieth century and the end of an era of far-reaching reform of the child support system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Family Law, Fourth Edition, addresses the need to rethink the traditional family model. To assist that effort, the materials in this book have been selected to develop several important themes: The tension between private ordering and state supervision in family law The importance of constitutional doctrines that have been invoked to limit state regulation of family law Attention to the ethical dilemmas unique to the field: Is it appropriate, for example, to represent both husband and wife in a divorce? How can an attorney represent a child who is too young to talk? The materials in Family Law and its helpful Teacher's Manual are designed to help enrich classroom discussion and prepare students to practice in this challenging field.