Product Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr...read more

Product Description: This part of the Hornbook Series analyzes the law of domestic relations and how it has changed in recent years. Discrimination against women has been mitigated. The power to control personal relationships by contract has increased...read more

Product Description: Domestic Torts: Family Violence, Conflict and Sexual Abuse, With Supplement (Family Law Series)

Product Description: Mary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in the last decade...read more

Product Description: Legal and ethical issues: What you must know before engaging in marriage counseling or family counseling

As debates over family values preoccupy politicians and the public, judges and legislators grapple with even more basic questions. What is a family? Who should count as a family member, and with what consequences for obligations and benefits? Interracial adoption, new reproductive technologies, and gay and lesbian relationships provide simply a few of the settings in which these questions acquire contemporary urgency. The materials assembled here provide a basis for studying these themes and many others in U.S. family law and family lives. Whether used to enhance personal insight or professional competence, Family Matters should provide food for thought and nourishment for the collective lives of families and communities.

Product Description: In recent years, family law has catapulted from the shadows to the spotlight in public consciousness. The issues that family law addresses--divorce, custody, single parenthood, same-sex marriage, prenuptial contracts, unmarried cohabitation, alternative families--have attracted enormous public attention and have become the subject of celebrated legal disputes, newspaper and magazine articles, television shows and movies, and Presidential campaigns...read more

Product Description: This clearly-written Understanding treatise includes coverageof both traditional and nontraditional families, nonmaritaland postmarital contracts, annulment, paternity andlegitimacy, procreation rights, contraception, abortion,sterilization, artificially assisted conception, adoption and termination of parental rights...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Olson, Colleen M.

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Product Description: Family, Law and Religion examines the limits of religious freedom for families within both the English legal system and that of the United States. Its coverage includes the development of religious freedom; marriage and divorce; the upbringing of children; residence and contact orders in relation to children; adoption; religious education; and secular education...read more

Product Description: Essential reading for those who wish to understand the meaning of stepfamily relationships in America today

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Product Description: The family and the law, with its attendant legal systems, share a pervasive connectedness. With this new volume, family practitioners and scholars can begin to increase the family?s position in relation to the law and legal system...read more

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Examines violence by men against women, tracing the causes and suggesting improvements in victim assistance

Product Description: Family law has emerged as one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of modern law. Drawing increasingly from constitutional law, conflicts of laws, property, torts, criminal law, tax and welfare law, family law has also grown ever more complex...read more

A study of the declining condition of the institution of marriage examines the painful impact of divorce on all the individuals involved, explains how government has contributed to the problem, and suggests ways that it can reverse the trend. IP.