Product Description: Book by Weyrauch, Walter O.

This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.

The text of this book addresses many novel and interesting questions relating to family law. The book also focuses on matters that are of the most practical importance to those who practice family law. Includes definitions, policy and trends of American family law together with the regulation, rights, and obligations of marriage.

Product Description: Family law is an interdisciplinary area, and the materials in this work reflect the numerous disciplines influencing this field of law. This book is policy-oriented, with non-legal social science featured in the extensive note materials to provide a rich and varied learning experience and a practice resource tool...read more

Part of the popular University Casebook Series, Cases and Materials on Family Law provides an overview of family law, addressing traditional family law issues with an updated family model. The book covers three important themes: the tension between private ordering and state supervision in family law; constitutional doctrines invoked to limit state regulation of family law; and ethical questions unique to the field of family law. Substantially revised and updated, the fourth edition provides enriching discussion by linking key issues to important cases.

Product Description: Family Law, David Westfall American Casebooks Series

The authors of this edition have thoroughly revised and updated the prior work, yet maintained its overall scope, coverage and organization. Highly flexible—individual teachers can decide what parts of the book to assign. Includes 40 new cases, new material domestic violence and same-sex relationships, and coverage of recent developments such as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, and the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. Notes and questions following each case have been rewritten to be clearer and more readily accessible to students and teachers.

Invitation to Family Law contains such materials as briefs, literary treatments of marriage, divorce, and parenting, and simulated case files from families involved in the social service system. This work reflects the contrasting backgrounds and interests of the authors including constitutional theory, moral philosophy, and the literary tradition of law, community and family. It also presents law and economics, feminist theory and application of legal theory to many practical family law problems. You’ll see the authors’ common fascination with history, concern with fairness (and fair treatment of the issues), and genuine love of the subject that motivated this work.

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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.

Product Description: The second novel, and first quick read title, from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass.My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and engaging story of a young boy with an alcoholic mother. Lonely, bullied and desperate for a life of happiness and security he tells everyone he meets his dad's a policeman...read more

Oliphant and Ver Steegh (both William Mitchell College of Law) present a student-friendly casebook reflecting the rich historical and cultural context of family law, and its potential to provide a personally fulfilling and intellectually stimulating career path for lawyers and those in related fields. Thirty-two chapters are arranged into sections on what "marriage" is the history of family law, marriage and its barriers, annulment, cohabitation outside of marriage the various consequences of divorce, and other family law practice issues. Each chapter begins with an introductory overview of the topics presented, followed by logically and sequentially ordered cases. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Description: In print and online, this new casebook considers the full range of contemporary domestic relationships, including families based on marriage and families formed through nonmarital cohabitation. The book presents the framework of constitutional and federal law that shapes family law at the state level, and materials to help students master the practical dimensions of family law including the mechanics of determining marriage validity, establishing parentage, and working with uniform jurisdictional statutes...read more