Product Description: With an increasing awareness of the international context of proceedings before UK courts, the potential for greater complexity and a corresponding need for practitioners to be aware of the international issues may arise within proceedings...read more

<p> When you teach Family Law, how do you convey the lively social context of this continually evolving area? <b>Modern Family Law, Third Edition</b>, uses cases, notes, interdisciplinary materials, and problems to address the full range of the subject, with sensitivity to issues of gender, race, and class. </p> <p> <b>This dynamic casebook</b>: </p> <ul> <li> reflects the social diversity of the modern family </li> <li> examines the social and legal impacts of: the women's movement, the children's rights movement, the fathers' rights movement, domestic violence, changing sexual mores, new family forms, and developments in reproductive technology </li> <li> integrates valuable interdisciplinary perspectives, including excerpts, notes, and questions emanating from history, psychology, sociology, social work, medicine, and philosophy </li> <li> covers the basics of family law as well as more expansive topics </li> <li> presents a variety of problem exercises, most derived from actual cases and current events </li> <li> easily adapts to courses of various lengths heightens student awareness of the real effect of the law on people's lives through narratives and stories about the people behind the cases </li> </ul> <p> <b>Scrupulously updated with new cases, notes, problems, and excerpts, the</b> <b> Third Edition</b>: </p> <ul> <li> provides extensive coverage of the same-sex marriage debate and its ramifications, including the <i>Lawrence, Goodridge, and Lofton</i> cases, civil unions and domestic partnerships, parentage determinations, custody and visitation, child support, name changes, property rights, the proposed federal marriage amendment to the Constitution, and the wider implications for gender classifications in family law </li> <li> presents expanded treatment of domestic violence, including <i>Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez</i>, discrimination against abuse victims in the areas of housing and employment, victims' attempts to change names and hide, and the implications for custody and support </li> <li> discusses custody and visitation rights of both grandparents and stepparents in the post-Troxel era </li> <li> supplies revised coverage of the family-work conflict, including discussion of the "glass ceiling," the "maternal wall," and the gendered household division of labor </li> <li> treats right-to-die issues, most notably the Terri Schiavo case and its ramifications for privacy, the family, and federalism </li> <li> addresses partial-birth abortion bans and teenagers' abortion rights, including the proposed federal parental notification statute (the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act) and the pending Supreme Court case of <i> Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England</i> </li> <li> includes expanded treatment of sexual orientation in terms of employment, housing, domestic violence, and the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy </li> <li> considers fetal protection measures at both the federal and state levels that criminalize the killing of a fetus, such as the <i>Unborn Victims of Violence Act</i> </li> <li> deals with important evidentiary issues, such as the child abuse implications of <i>Crawford v. Washington</i> and the interspousal wiretapping case of <i> Glazner v. Glazner</i> </li> <li> reviews paternity disestablishment for husbands who deny paternity after genetic tests disprove their biological fatherhood </li> <li> updates issues of contraceptive fraud, such as the "purloined sperm" cases in which women lie about taking birth control pills or "steal" their partner's sperm without his consent </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

This classic reference explains how to use the 1040 return as a discovery tool in divorce cases - in practice, not theory. The book uses a hypothetical couple's 2007 tax return to provide a line-by-line analysis of the federal tax form and its schedules, showing where to start a review of an individual's return and how to discover cash flow, the existence of assets and other valuables.

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: In Ireland, the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 gives legal recognition to the diverse relationships that exist in the country. It is the most comprehensive amendment to Irish law on children and family relationships in many decades...read more

Product Description: Providing accurate and objective information to help make the right decisions during a divorce in Georgia, this guide provides answers to 360 queries such as What is the mediation process in Georgia and is it required? How quickly can one get a divorce? Who decides who gets the cars, the pets, and the house? What actions might influence child custody? How are bills divided and paid during the divorce? How much will a divorce cost? and Will a spouse have to pay some or all attorney fees? Structured in a question-and-answer format, this divorce handbook provides clear and concise responses to help build confidence and give the peace of mind needed to meet the challenges of a divorce proceeding...read more

Product Description: With cases often involving complex financial matters, a financial expert or forensic accountant can play an integral part in a divorce case. One of the most important tools they can use is a lifestyle analysis, a component being employed in an increasing number of divorces...read more

Product Description: Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to do so...read more

Product Description: The portable California Family Laws and Rules contains the full text of the California Family Code and Family Law Rules, and related provisions from the Business and Professions Code, Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Education Code, Evidence Code, Government Code, Health and Safety Code, Insurance Code, Penal Code, Probate Code, Revenue and Taxation Code, Vehicle Code, and Welfare and Institutions Code...read more

Product Description: An 'informal relationship' refers to a relationship that is not formalized as a marriage or as a registered partnership/civil union between a couple. This volume contains detailed information on the law on informal relationships in 30 European countries...read more

Product Description: In the UK, busy family law practitioners find that - whether in preparation for a conference, in drafting a skeleton argument, or before setting off to court - they repeatedly have to search for the same authorities and the same crucial paragraphs within each authority...read more

Product Description: This book describes and analyzes the different legal approaches and policy discussion regarding cohabitation in the Nordic countries: Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It looks at the historical developments, the general private law principles, the division of property upon separation or the death of one cohabitant, inheritance, and the regulations concerning children born to cohabitants...read more

Product Description: Published on behalf of the International Society of Family Law, this volume is the annual review of developments in family law across the world. Written by leading academics and family law experts, the 2015 edition covers developments in over 20 countries...read more

Product Description: Family justice requires a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course. However, family justice also requires a justice system which can deliver legal information, advice, and support at times of change of status or family stress, together with mechanisms for negotiation, dispute management, and resolution, with adjudication as the last resort...read more

A Practical Guide to Family Proceedings has established itself as a straightforward, easy-to-follow handbook of procedure written for UK family lawyers. The book will enable the busy practitioner to avoid the most common pitfalls encountered when following procedure and preparing documents for presentation to the court, thereby avoiding unnecessary work and the possibility of incurring a wasted costs order, while contributing to speeding up the whole process. This book offers step-by-step guidance on the effective conduct of the most common types of UK family law application. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to take into account all important developments in practice and procedure, including a new chapter on applications for financial relief following overseas divorce.