Casenotes Legal Briefs: Family Law, Keyed to Areen, Spindelman & Tsoukala, Sixth Edition
After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. The series is trusted for its expert summary of the principal cases in your casebook. Its proven reliability makes Casenote Legal Briefs the most popular case brief series available. With more than 100 titles keyed to the current editions of major …
Prenups for Lovers: A Romantic Guide to Prenuptial Agreements
This ring-to-altar guide is a valentine to anyone who’s dating, contemplating marriage, living with someone, or …
How to Do Your Own Divorce in Texas 2015–2017: An essential guide for every kind of divorce
This guide shows those in the Lone Star State how to complete their own divorce for $200 or less. The first part explains how the laws work, how to divide the marital property and settle issues of child custody and support, and it helps readers reach agreement with the other spouse, keeping the divorce uncontested. The second part …
Family Law From Multiple Perspectives: Cases and Commentary (American Casebook Series)
This concise casebook introduces students to basic family law doctrines in the context of the fundamental but often unarticulated moral and policy debates. The organization of the 26 chapters is simple and coherent. Chapter One introduces foundational principles; the remaining 25 chapters are divided into six sections that discuss family law regulation of the formation, continuation, and dissolution …
Children Held Hostage: Identifying Brainwashed Children, Presenting a Case, and Crafting Solutions
In Children Held Hostage, Stanley Clawar and Brynne Rivlin use important new research involving over 1,000 families to demonstrate that children can and are being used by parents in the divorce battle. Their research shows how negative actions by parents toward their children show up in court proceedings where children testify or are questioned by mental health professionals. …
Focusing on upon the twin legal issues of validity and construction of marital agreements, this carefully researched book offers an in-depth consideration of what happens after the agreement is signed by the two parties. In this book Brett R. Turner and Laura W. Morgan, both well-known legal researchers, explore the strongest arguments the lawyer can use that will …
A modern and teachable casebook for the family law course, offering comprehensive coverage and a mix of interdisciplinary materials.Features:Developments on marriage promotion/divorce reform efforts, which include mandated marriage classesCase law on parental alienation/friendly parent provisions with increasing numbers of women losing custodyThe continuing move away from the marital presumption, with new cases from KentuckyThe extension of estoppel principles …
A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equalitySpeak Now tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex marriage in our most populous state. A trial that interrogated the nature …
Understand better what you’re learning in Family Law class and prepare effectively for exams by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes over 210 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 28 questions comprising a comprehensive “practice exam.” For each multiple-choice question, …
Bonded to the Abuser: How Victims Make Sense of Childhood Abuse
Tens of thousands of children are removed from home each year due to some form of child maltreatment, usually physical neglect, physical abuse, or sexual abuse, although sometimes for emotional abuse as well. An additional significant number of children are victims of child maltreatment but remain in their home. Extensive research reveals the far reaching and long lasting …