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Family Law in Louisiana, First Edition 2009 (Hardcover)
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Family Law in Louisiana, First Edition 2009 (Hardcover)
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Family Law in Louisiana is designed for use in law school courses
that involve the study of the distinctive family law of Louisiana,
a law that represents a unique blend of Continental ("civilian"),
Anglo-American, and autochthonic legal principles. Topics covered
include those that would be covered in a standard textbook on
American family law, including prerequisites for and the nullity of
marriage; the dissolution of marriage; the incidents of divorce,
such as interspousal alimony, child custody, and child support;
filiation (paternity); parental responsibility and authority; care
for children outside of marriage (tutorship); care for
incapacitated adults (curatorship); choice of law; and
constitutional constraints on state regulation of family relations.
About the authors: Katherine Shaw Spaht is the Jules F. and Frances
L. Landry Professor of Law (Emeritus) and former Vice Chancellor
(1990-1992) at Louisiana State University's Paul M. Hebert Law
Center. Since 1972, she has taught courses in the areas of family
law and marital property law. In addition to overseeing the
revision of Louisiana's community property law in 1978 and drafting
Louisiana's covenant marriage legislation in 1997, she has worked
with the Louisiana legislature on such varied topics as needs of
women, rights of illegitimate children, "assisted conception," and
child support, no-fault divorce, and same-sex marriage. She has
been the Reporter of the Louisiana State Law Institute's "Persons
& Family Law" Committee since 1981 and also serves on the
American Law Institute's Committee on the Principles of the Law of
Family Dissolution. Through the years she has produced a
significant corpus of publications pertaining to family and marital
law, including a treatise on Louisiana marital property law
(co-authored with Lee Hargrave), which forms part of the Louisiana
Civil Law Treatise Series, and most recently, Who's Your Momma, Who
Are Your Daddies? Louisiana's New Law of Filiation, 67 LA. L. REV.
307 (2007). J. Randall Trahan is the James Carville Alumni
Professor of Law at Louisiana State University's Paul M. Hebert Law
Center. In each of the past ten years, he has taught courses in
"family" or "marital property" law. During that same time he has
produced several publications related to family or marital property
law, including Glossae on the New Law of Marital Donations, 65 LA.
L. REV. 1059 (2005); Glossae on the New Law of Filiation, 67 LA. L.
REV. 387 (2007); and Prerequisites to Marriage in Scotland and
Louisiana: An Historical-Comparative Investigation, in MIXED
JURISDICTIONS COMPARED: PRIVATE LAW IN LOUISIANA AND SCOTLAND
(Vernon Valentine Palmer and Elspeth Christie Reid eds., Edinburgh
Univ. Press, forthcoming 2009); has spoken as a lecturer on "recent
developments" in family law at a number of continuing legal
education conferences; and has participated in the drafting of
reform legislation in Louisiana that has addressed such matters as
covenant marriage, no-fault divorce, filiation (paternity), marital
donations, and same-sex unions. For the past five years, he has
served as a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute's "Persons
& Family Law" Committee.
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