Description
This family law casebook, conceived and written in the 21st century, explores the law's treatment of marital and nonmarital families, with and without children, and same-sex households. Topics covered include lawyering, private ordering, alternative dispute resolution, and post-dissolution disputes over custody and child rearing. The text emphasizes the rapid evolution of doctrine, policy debates, constitutional considerations, collaboration with other professions, and ethical and practice issues. It fulfills the goals of the Carnegie Report and the Family Law Education Reform Project's recommendations and works well with any state's statutes.