Contemporary Family Law

by Douglas E. Abrams, Naomi Cahn, Linda McClain

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

1247 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Liz]

If i have to read 100s of pages a week for a class, it’s going toward my Goodreads Goal for the year

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not too bad as text books go. Good overview

[Ray Faure · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got an A for this course, yay.

[D · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too woke.

[Shabbir Hamid · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good textbook.