Family Law (Aspen Casebook Series)

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 classes
• Case law on parental alienation/friendly parent provisions with increasing numbers of women losing custody
• The continuing move away from the marital presumption, with new cases from Kentucky
• The extension of estoppel principles in parentage decisions, particularly in California and New York
• Update of states recognizing same-sex partners' parenting rights
• A brief new section on the right to know biological parents, including the new case in Canada
• Update on new statutory regulation of surrogacy including limitations to women with established medical need
• International recognition of assisted reproduction, with new case from France refusing to grant citizenship to child of French parents born to surrogate abroad.

The purchase of this Kindle edition does not entitle you to receive 1-year FREE digital access to the corresponding Examples & Explanations in your course area. In order to receive access to the hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations found in the Examples & Explanations, you will need to purchase a new print casebook.