Preparing for Baby is a must-have resource for every new and expecting parent, a legal and financial version of What to Expect While You’re Expecting. Often, parents don’t have the time or energy to deal with important legal and financial matters―like buying life insurance, learning how to save for college, or creating a will.Preparing for Baby provides plain-English …
Making complex accounting terminology easy to understand, this book provides an introduction to the core financial concepts in divorce, such as asset identification, classification and valuation, income determination, and expenses. In clear, accessible language, this book offers step-by-step guidance while also exploring strategic concerns appropriate for high-asset and high-conflict cases. It connects the dots among the interrelated topics …
Divorce in New Mexico: The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect
Providing accurate and objective information to help make the right decisions during a divorce in New Mexico, this guide provides answers to 360 queries such as What is the mediation process in New Mexico and is it required? How quickly can one get a divorce? Who decides who gets the cars, the pets, and the house? What actions …
This new edition of this popular book is much improved. It includes all of the latest developments, for example: the ABA SDR Task Force on Mediation Quality, all of the new arbitration cases to date, and the revised Rule 408, as well as new readings updating federal court ADR, mass torts (tied to the BP oil spill), and …
Multisystemic Therapy for Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition
Multisystemic therapy (MST) has grown dramatically since the initial publication of this comprehensive manual. Today, over 400 MST programs operate in more than 30 states and 10 countries, supported by a strong empirical evidence base. This book explains the principles of MST and provides clear guidelines for clinical assessment and intervention with delinquent youth and their families. Practitioners …
Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice (University Casebook Series)
The first casebook on the subject marks the contours of the field and provides a comprehensive understanding of the law and legal discourse relating to state regulation of sex, bodies, families, and reproduction. This compilation of rich historical and contemporary primary and secondary materials, accompanied by rigorous legal analysis, considers the economic, political, legal, and social factors that …
Family Law: Cases and Materials, 6th Edition (University Casebook)
The Sixth Edition continues a long tradition of innovation the casebook is widely known and prized for. Preserving the best of earlier editions, the casebook delivers an up-to-date overview of U.S. Family Law that weaves together black-letter rules, policy, narrative, history, transnational sources, and theory, into an accessible and teachable whole. The book is written with an eye …
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. The fifth edition of this classic text, available in late August 2007, comprehensively surveys the traditional …
California Family Law for Paralegals, Sixth Edition (Aspen College)
Focused squarely on the California Family Code, California Family Law for Paralegals integrates statutory law and judicial interpretation into a cohesive general discussion of all aspects of the state’s family law. Its practical, straightforward approach is designed to teach the basics to paralegal students, and powerful pedagogy makes it stand apart from most books on California Law. Chapter …
An Attachment-Based Model of Parental Alienation: Single Case ABAB Assessment and Remedy
Assessing the cause of parent-child conflict following divorce can be a complex undertaking, especially in the context of allegations that one parent is exercising negative parental influence on the child that undermines the child’s relationship with the other parent. While securing testimony or conducting an extensive child custody evaluation are ways to assess the possible causes of …