Children are the central focus in any custody case. Opinions are evolving about how to keep the child as the case’s focus. This book provides a framework for addressing this.
This updated edition of Assisted Reproductive Technology covers important recent developments in the area, including the approval by the ABA of the Model Act Governing Assisted Reproductive Technology and the approval of proposed new standards governing inheritance by children of ART in the Uniform Probate Code.
Becoming a Tech-Savvy Family Lawyer is written especially for practitioners in this area, and it explains how a family lawyer can begin implementing tech tools on a daily basis.
The desire to build a practice that does not revolve around the courtroom but instead centers around how we build resolution begins with the first intentional act, followed by the next. This book provides a wide resource of those steps—steps that can be applied not only by lawyers but by all professionals who work in the Collaborative model.
This guide suggests practice standards to help judges, parents’ attorneys, children’s attorneys, CFS workers, GALs and family members ask the questions that need to be asked in every case.
This clearly written guide provides family law practitioners with the practical knowledge and tools they need to analyze the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) and the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA).
Among the many new information and findings presented in this edition, the authors offer further insights into gender issues and differences. Other new material in this edition includes a social-psychological profile of programmers and brainwashers; identification of the most commonly asked questions by judges, target parents, lawyers and children; an expanded social explanation to the causes, impact, and interventions; development of an abductor profile; the addition of charts to visualize key findings and processes; and much more.
This book provides the most up-to-date information about statutes, court rules, and reported cases relevant to issues arising from the day-to-day practice of Chinese family law.