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Employing the trusted Examples & Explanations format, Examples & Explanations: Family Law, Third Edition, offers a cutting-edge study aid that will be an asset to any family law class. Fully updated, the new edition continues to identify and explore new trends in family law practice. Among the strengths of this comprehensive study aid: The clear organization and in-depth treatment of discrete topics make it easy for students to understand the nuances of family law. It includes central topics such as alternative dispute resolution, domestic violence, alternative reproduction, premarital agreements, and professional responsibility Forward looking authors who routinely interview practitioners to discern new trends in family law and family law practice. New to the Third Edition: The alternative dispute resolution coverage has been expanded to include collaborative law and parenting coordination as well as mediation and arbitration. The implications for same-sex relationships are discussed in relevant sections throughout the book. The coverage of marriage has been substantially updated. The treatment of parentage issues has been expanded. ... Read more

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Invaluable and timely
Women In Muslim Family Law appears in its second edition to update information on family law reforms throughout the Middle East and Asia, presenting new insights on the diverse interpretations of Muslim family law in the region and including expanded sections handling key issues in Muslim religious and social life. Invaluable and timely. ... Read more

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This book is set apart by its balance between the theoretical underpinnings of family law and the processes and procedures that govern daily practice. Covering a wide range of topics, it discusses issues such as: same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships, covenant marriage, premarital agreements, parenting plans, reproductive technologies and custody battles, alternative dispute resolution and adoption.  A priority is placed on the coverage of the procedural aspects of the divorce process and post-judgment matters. Filled with practical advice, it is easy to use and designed to prepare the new paralegal  for the realities of family law practice.  Addresses the need for a concise book that shows paralegals how to respond successfully to the numerous demands in a family law practice.  Examines areas of family practice that represent a majority of a family practitioner's workload.  National examples, including common law.  Sample family forms are referenced throughoutand provide examples of the types of documents prepared in family law and practice.  Shows how to draft typical family related pleadings such as, complaints, motions, orders, and agreements. New Paralegals. ... Read more

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Very happy customer!
I recieved my order promptly and in the condition I was told it would be in. I am very satisfied with the customer service I was provided and I would definately purchase from this seller again!

FAMILY LAW & PRACTICE
BOOK CONDITION IS EXCELLENT,DELIVERY WAS EXTREMELY QUICK, VERY HAPPY WITH REQUIRED TEXT FOR MY NEXT CLASS.

Valuable resource!
As a student who wants to work for agencies to prevent crime on the internet, I wasn't sure how much "Family Law and Practice: The Paralegal's Guide" was going to do for me.It turned out to be an incredible resource, not only of how the system works, but also of the workings of families in suboptimal conditions.

I could have done without the "Figures," which were mostly illustrations and seldom court forms; but on the whole, the book was well-written and obviously well-researched.

This book seems to portray very realistically family breakdown AND how the attorney and paralegal fit in.If "Family Law and Practice: The Paralegal's Guide" isn't a part of every business school's paralegal program, it should be.I got a LOT out of the course, and might not have if it hadn't been for the wonderful text.

Great for Students and People Interested in the Law
This is a wonderful book for both students and people interested in family law.It covers everything from the history of family law to current events, such as Roseanne and Tom Arnold's marriage.The cases are more like soap operas than the dry cases one usually associates with law.These cases will inspire great conversation in the classroom and will hold the students' interest from start to finish. ... Read more

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Global Issues in Family Law offersbroad coverage of the international, comparative, and transnational legal questions that are increasingly important in the practice of Family Law.It considers global dimensions of the topics covered in an introductory course, including marriage, divorce, establishing parent-child relationships, parental rights and responsibilities, adoption and domestic violence, and addresses broader questions of private international law, human rights, and immigration and asylum rights. The book is intended to be accessible to students with no background in family law or international law, and also to be challenging forthose interested inexploring the fascinating intersection of these two fields. ... Read more

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Contemporary Family Law is the first family law casebook entirely conceived and written in the twenty first century. The text captures the rapid evolution of doctrine, introduces students to emerging policy debates, and explores issues that arise in family law practice including the importance of collaborating with professionals from other disciplines. The book emphasizes that families take a variety of forms, including marital and nonmarital relationships, and that constitutional considerations play an increasingly important role in family law. Contemporary Family Law includes several chapters that do not appear in most other family law casebooks. For example, it devotes separate chapters to lawyering, private ordering, and alternative dispute resolution. And, in contrast to the usual approach, the book treats property distribution and alimony in separate chapters to emphasize each topic s distinctive theoretical and practical aspects. Moreover, because child custody arrangements lead to some of the most acrimonious legal disputes, this casebook devotes two separate chapters to custody: the first treats the initial custody decision, and the second explores disputes that arise over visitation, custody, and key childrearing decisions after the initial disposition. In addition, the book emphasizes the importance of legal practice issues by placing the lawyering chapter at the beginning of the book, and by using problems that enable students to apply doctrine. ... Read more

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Good book
Arrived quickly, in condition as stated.Turned out to be the wrong edition for my class, but it came shrink-wrapped so I was able to re-sell it easily.Would buy from this seller again. ... Read more

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The Family Law & Society; Cases & Materials is an invaluable resource for students.Produced by an esteemed author team it provides a wealth of carefully selected materials offering an overview of the social, economic, and political trends which have come to shape contemporary family life. The materials are linked by the authors through detailed commentary, opening up the complex legal issues for discussion and offering academic and judicial viewpoints.

This new edition has been fully revised to include the significant developments in family law and policy since the fifth edition, including the Adoption and Children Act 2002, the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Gender Recognition Act 2004, and landmark cases such as Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane, Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partner), Stack v Dowden, Wilkinson v Kitzinger. ... Read more

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"[T]he best and most useful social science text I have read in a decade .It is comprehensive in its research and scope, clearly written and uses excellent case studies and examples to illustrate in simple terms what might otherwise be complex phenomena."

--Dr. Tom Altobelli
Federal Magistrate, Family Law Courts
Sydney, Australia

The goal of every family law professional and mental health practitioner is to improve family court outcomes in the best interests of the child. This book will assist readers in meeting this critical goal. Developmental Psychology for Family Law Professionals serves as a practical application of developmental theory to the practice of family law.

This book helps family law and mental health professionals gain a broader understanding of each child's unique needs when in the midst of family crisis. It presents developmental theories with which professionals might better assess the developmental needs, synchronies, and trajectories of a given child. Ultimately, this book presents guidelines for making appropriate legal decisions and recommendations for children who have experienced crises such as abuse, neglect, relocation, divorce, and much more.

Key topics include:

• Custodial schedules
• Foster and adoptive care
• Post-divorce disputes
• Termination of parental rights
• Psychological assessment and diagnosis
• Incarcerated parents and visitation rights
• Relocation and "distance parenting"
• Visitation resistance and refusal/reunification
• Parental Alienation/alignment and estrangement
• Theories of cognitive, language, and social development

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How should our most intimate personal relationships be governed in a liberal society? Should the state encourage a particular model of family life, or support individuals in their pursuit of personal happiness? To what extent do people have the right to shape the lives of their offspring? This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members.

The book explores how the governance of personal relationships has depended on the exercise of power, from the traditional assumptions of patriarchy, where the male head of the family enjoyed full control over his dependents and descendents, to the ideology of welfarism, where state institutions protect the interests of the vulnerable at the expense of their close relations. Emerging from these conflicting ideologies comes today's rights-based culture, where traditional expectations for behavior within a family sit within a new emphasis on the ability of minorities and traditional dependents to determine the shape of their own lives.

Against this background of shifting power relations, the book explores the interrelationship between the legal regulation of people's personal lives and the values of friendship, truth, respect and responsibility. In doing this, a variety of controversial issues are examined in the light of those values: including the legal regulation of gay and unmarried heterosexual relationships; freedom of procreation; state supervision over the exercise of parenthood; the role of fault in divorce law; the way parenthood is allocated; the rights and responsibilities of parents to control their children; the place of religion in the family; the rights of separated partners regarding property and of separated parents regarding their children. Throughout, the book offers a new picture of the intimacy at the centre of personal relationships and argues that only by understanding this intimacy, and its role in human happiness, can we arrive at a true framework for respecting, and governing, the personal lives of other people. ... Read more

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Mastering Family Law helps students understand the basic principles and underlying policies of the topics covered in a general family law course. The content in this book is drawn from the table of contents of all the major family law teaching texts and includes all of the major topics covered in those texts.  Consequently, a student will find this book a helpful supplement to any family law casebook. The book includes traditional family law topics such as marriage and divorce, but also covers child law topics such as the constitutional rights of parents and the definition of parents, among others. It provides a roadmap at the beginning of each chapter to focus attention on the important topics that will be addressed and a checkpoints list at the end of each chapter to summarize the important concepts as an aid to student comprehension and retention. The book is written in a student-friendly style designed to present the major concepts in easily understood language. ... Read more

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How do you know what you say you know? That's the key question family law professionals must ask when evaluating the reports and testimony of mental health professionals, their methods, and the materials that support their conclusions and expert opinions. This book offers a case-based model to empower lawyers in managing difficult psychology-related issues in their cases and hold mental health experts accountable in court. ... Read more

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Excellent guide for lawyers and mental health professionals
This book provides a structure for legal and mental health professionals to analyze the scientific reliability and validity of expert testimony and reports in family law. It is concise and clearly written. Lawyers working in this area will wish to read it to help direct their cross examinations of experts and experts will want to review this book to improve their reports. ... Read more

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Nutshells present the essentials of law in clear and straightforward language, explaining the basic principles.Features such as diagrams and checklists make them easy to use, while the inclusion of model questions and answer plans help students test their knowledge.Nutshells are an essential revision aid and ideal for getting fully up to speed with a new subject. ... Read more

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A clear and comprehensive organization makes <b>Examples & Explanations: Family Law</b> the perfect ancillary source for any family law course. This cutting-edge and topically significant supplement is now fully updated in its Second Edition. Utilizing the trusted <i>Examples & Explanations</i> methodology, this text challenges students to assimilate a vast array of material in a problem-based, forward thinking manner.<p class="copymedium"><b>This edition retains the great features that made it a dependable source for students in its First Edition:</b></p><ul><li class="copymedium">offers clear organization and comprehensive coverage of material</li><li class="copymedium">includes topics such as alternative dispute resolution, domestic violence, and professional responsibility</li><li class="copymedium">breaks family law into distinct, digestible topics, unlike other books of its nature</li><li class="copymedium">distinguishes maintenance from property division and custody from modification of custody</li><li class="copymedium">challenges students with cutting edge issues, as authors integrate firsthand accounts of material with progressive practitioners to discern new trends in family law and family law practice</li></ul><b>The Second Edition also includes an abundance of updated & timely information, including:</b><ul><li>discussion of innovative new procedures and professional roles, including:<ul><li>parenting coordinators</li><li>neutral experts</li><li>collaborative law practice</li></ul></li><li class="copymedium">additional emphasis on same-sex marriage, cohabitation, child support, paternity, and alternative dispute resolution</li><li class="copymedium">almost entirely new examples and explanations, most of which are based on actual reported cases</li><li class="copymedium">additional focus on abortion and other constitutional issues</li></ul><p>An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at <a href="http://www.aspenlawschool.com/familye&e" target="_blank">http://www.aspenlawschool.com/familye&e</a></p><p></p><p></p> ... Read more

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<p>When you teach Family Law, how do you convey the lively social context of this continually evolving area? <b>Modern Family Law, Third Edition</b>, uses cases, notes, interdisciplinary materials, and problems to address the full range of the subject, with sensitivity to issues of gender, race, and class.</p><p><b>This dynamic casebook</b>:</p><ul><li>reflects the social diversity of the modern family</li><li>examines the social and legal impacts of: the women's movement, the children's rights movement, the fathers' rights movement, domestic violence, changing sexual mores, new family forms, and developments in reproductive technology</li><li>integrates valuable interdisciplinary perspectives, including excerpts, notes, and questions emanating from history, psychology, sociology, social work, medicine, and philosophy</li><li>covers the basics of family law as well as more expansive topics</li><li>presents a variety of problem exercises, most derived from actual cases and current events</li><li>easily adapts to courses of various lengths heightens student awareness of the real effect of the law on people's lives through narratives and stories about the people behind the cases</li></ul><p><b>Scrupulously updated with new cases, notes, problems, and excerpts, the</b> <b>Third Edition</b>:</p><ul><li>provides extensive coverage of the same-sex marriage debate and its ramifications, including the <i>Lawrence, Goodridge, and Lofton</i> cases, civil unions and domestic partnerships, parentage determinations, custody and visitation, child support, name changes, property rights, the proposed federal marriage amendment to the Constitution, and the wider implications for gender classifications in family law</li><li>presents expanded treatment of domestic violence, including <i>Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez</i>, discrimination against abuse victims in the areas of housing and employment, victims' attempts to change names and hide, and the implications for custody and support</li><li>discusses custody and visitation rights of both grandparents and stepparents in the post-Troxel era</li><li>supplies revised coverage of the family-work conflict, including discussion of the "glass ceiling," the "maternal wall," and the gendered household division of labor</li><li>treats right-to-die issues, most notably the Terri Schiavo case and its ramifications for privacy, the family, and federalism</li><li>addresses partial-birth abortion bans and teenagers' abortion rights, including the proposed federal parental notification statute (the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act) and the pending Supreme Court case of <i>Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England</i></li><li>includes expanded treatment of sexual orientation in terms of employment, housing, domestic violence, and the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy</li><li>considers fetal protection measures at both the federal and state levels that criminalize the killing of a fetus, such as the <i>Unborn Victims of Violence Act</i></li><li>deals with important evidentiary issues, such as the child abuse implications of <i>Crawford v. Washington</i> and the interspousal wiretapping case of <i>Glazner v. Glazner</i></li><li>reviews paternity disestablishment for husbands who deny paternity after genetic tests disprove their biological fatherhood</li><li>updates issues of contraceptive fraud, such as the "purloined sperm" cases in which women lie about taking birth control pills or "steal" their partner's sperm without his consent</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> ... Read more

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Outstanding
Outstanding resource book for my next class. Expedient delivery will be ordering other books from here in the future.

As advertised
This book was exactly as advertised.Would purchase again.Thank you.Fast shipping.

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I had great interaction with the seller. I needed this book for class and basically, problems with shipping were out of the control of the seller. ... Read more

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"Family Law, 5th Edition," is an excellent introductory guide to Family Law for the paralegal or legal secretary student.It also serves as a useful refresher for the professional on the job.Anyone with an interest in Family Law will find this updated fifth edition to be a useful and informative tool. ... Read more

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Book for class
I needed this book for class and it as great.I want to go on and study family law and this book has a lot of information in that that I will keep it instead of selling it back.

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They dont have this book on campus. I was told to go on Amazon. I found it and got it delivered the next day. The book is very interesting and was in Perdect shape.I order all my college books from Amazon.

Family Law - 5th ed./Wm. Statsky
Book is fairly easy to read, but as someone else noted, graphs and tables are usually on different pages than their page of mention. You are always flipping back and forth for reference.

Family Law, 5th edition
This book is very good overview of family law, but I would have preferred more tables showing the difference in the individual states laws.

textbook for paralegal studies
As a paralegal studies student, I have found this volume to be very readable and comprehensive in scope. There are explanations and definitions of terms that help to keep the subject from becoming fogged by unclear thinking. Exercises are scattered throughout the book for additional growth in the area--which I haven't had the time to explore, but intend to do so. Additional sites for research are listed should the reader require it. While I doubt that it would be a volume that would stand up to the use of the more experienced practioner of Family Law, it is something that a beginner to less experienced person can use for referral in practice. It is definately an excellent textbook for instruction in my opinion. ... Read more

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The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all levels.Written by leading academics, renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explain the intellectual challenges of each area of the law.

Family Law enables students to develop a clear understanding of the law and an insight into both the legal and social tensions that surround 'family life'. Clearly written and presented, it incorporates chapter summaries and self-test questions to highlight key topics for discussion and reflection. The authors also aim to make family law interesting so that their readers will want to explore in greater depth the fascinating stories which have so often engaged them in the writing of the second edition.

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Tips, strategies, tactics, forms, and real-word advice for starting - or building - a family law practice. Written by a successful and happy family lawyer, this book explains the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in a challenging area of the law. It takes a no-nonsense approach in explaining the most critical issues for developing a successful career. Examples and practice tips show how to gain experience, understand the business aspects of a practice, develop and maintain the ideal client mix, and manage staff and finances. CD-ROM with forms and related materials. ... Read more

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a Must Read
I have practiced family law for 8 years.I have read this book every year for the past year, and have gotten something new every time.The book was very inspiring, and in just 4 years of having my own practice, we grossed over 1 million last year.His advice about work-life balance is dead on.

Not for all attorneys, best for busines owners
I am a new-ish family law attorney at a small firm and purchased this book hoping it had some ideas for managing family law cases.It had a few practice points that were helpful to me, but (as the title somewhat indicates) it is definitely more geared toward someone wanting to manage a solo practitioner practice and certainly for someone who wants to manage their own firm.It would be helpful to anyone who is in such a position or make a thoughtful gift to anyone embarking on such a path. ... Read more

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This text provides a clear, comprehensive and engaging account of this rapidly developing subject. In addition to dealing with the intricacies of statute and case law, it deals with the wider social and policy issues, current family law debates and proposals for reform. It includes up-to-date coverage of the latest major developments. ... Read more

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The fifth edition of this work on family law includes extensive rewriting of the section on child law to reflect the changes of the Children Act 1989. This book is designed to be used by all those involved in the practice of family law and by students and teachers of the subject. ... Read more

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Cretney's Family Law covers both contemporary and historical principles of substantive family law, discusses the role of judicial discretion and critically evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Family Law. All of the major elements are broken down into digestible sections that mirror closely the modular course structure and the learning requirements of students. ... Read more

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In the wake of vast social and economic changes, the nuclear family has lost its dominance, both as an ideal and in practice. Some welcome this shift, while others see civilization itself in peril—but few move beyond ideology to develop a nuanced understanding of how families function in society. In this provocative book, Margaret F. Brinig draws on research from a variety of disciplines to offer a distinctive study of family dynamics and social policy.

Concentrating on legal reform, Brinig examines a range of subjects, including cohabitation, custody, grandparent visitation, and domestic violence. She concludes that conventional legal reforms and the social programs they engender ignore social capital: the trust and support given to families by a community. Traditional families generate much more social capital than nontraditional ones, Brinig concludes, which leads to clear rewards for the children. Firmly grounded in empirical research, Family, Law, and Community argues that family policy can only be effective if it is guided by an understanding of the importance of social capital and the advantages held by families that accrue it.