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This popular family law casebook engages students by presenting
core family law doctrine while exploring significant
transformations in American families and cutting-edge policy
debates. It highlights the important role of constitutional
law—and other areas of state and federal law—in shaping family
law. The book invites students to consider questions of family
definition and governmental regulation of families in light of
family law's purposes. It charts family law's evolving approach to
adult-adult and parent-child (and other caretaker-dependent)
relationships, emphasizing that contemporary families take a
variety of forms. The Sixth Edition updates all chapters to reflect
the latest family law developments, such as the legal treatment of
nonmarital families (including plural relationships) and
nonbiological parenting as well as recent Supreme Court decisions.
It integrates material previously covered in separate chapters on
ethical issues in family law practice and jurisdiction into the
contexts in which they arise, such as divorce, child custody, and
division of marital property. The Sixth Edition has new material
highlighting the intersection of family law with race, gender,
class, immigration, sexual orientation, and gender identity. As
with previous editions, the casebook contains ample problems for
students to apply doctrine to realistic factual contexts and
highlights practical dynamics of family law practice. The 6th
edition: Thoroughly examines the impact of recent Supreme Court
cases on family law, including Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health
Organization (and provides teachers with shorter and longer
versions of that case), and Golan v. Saada Includes attention to
the role of race and racism in laws that shape and regulate the
family, with case law addressing marriage, divorce, and inheritance
rights of formerly enslaved persons and a post-Loving v. Virginia
case challenging the continued requirement that couples disclose
race on a marriage license Provides a restructured chapter on the
legal consequences of marriage, spousal roles within marriage, and
the gender revolution within family law and related fields Includes
new developments on marriage requirements, including state minimum
age laws and common-law marriage rules, and addresses First
Amendment challenges, post-Masterpiece Cakeshop, to civil marriage
equality and state antidiscrimination laws Includes new coverage of
the intersection of immigration and family law Addresses changes in
legal approaches to nonmarital families, including multi-adult
domestic partnerships and the Uniform Cohabitants' Economic
Remedies Act Provides updated treatment of custody and parenting
time issues, including parenting gender-expansive children Provides
a restructured chapter on intimate partner violence (IPV),
including updates on various factors impacting IPV and shifting gun
control statutes and caselaw affecting civil protection orders
Provides new consideration of child support issues, including joint
custody and subsequent families.
Family Law Simulations offers versatile, in-depth simulations for
an experiential learning, drafting, or lawyering skills course, and
can also supplement a traditional family law course. Contemporary
fact patterns present students with "bread and butter" lawyering
tasks on behalf of a diverse set of clients. Students will
interview clients, draft pleadings, conduct discovery, argue
motions, negotiate, and mediate. The book further develops a
sustained knowledge of the governing ethical rules and explores the
interdisciplinary nature of family law and its intersections with
other legal specializations. Family Law Simulations is also a
uniquely specialized text that focuses on developing cultural
competency for lawyers, cultivating a strong professional identity,
and honing communication skills with clients. Several fact patterns
continue throughout the book to allow students to experience the
arc of a family law case. Students represent clients in different
states, applying actual family statutes, supplemented by practice
guidance materials and independent research. This multifaceted text
meets the varied and complex needs of modern family law classrooms.
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