When you teach Family Law, how do you convey the lively social context of this continually evolving area? Modern Family Law, Third Edition, uses cases, notes, interdisciplinary materials, and problems to address the full range of the subject, with sensitivity to issues of gender, race, and class. This dynamic casebook: <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>
 Scrupulously updated with new cases, notes, problems, and excerpts, the Third Edition: <ul>
<li> provides extensive coverage of the same-sex marriage debate and its ramifications, including the Lawrence, Goodridge, and Lofton 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 Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez, 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 Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England </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 Unborn Victims of Violence Act </li> <li> deals with important evidentiary issues, such as the child abuse implications of Crawford v. Washington and the interspousal wiretapping case of Glazner v. Glazner </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>

Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (Casebook)

D. Kelly Weisberg

Susan Frelich Appleton

Family Law

Aspen Publishers, Inc.

The 2008 Supplement to Modern Family Law brings the third edition up to date through July 27, 2008. It includes major developments in the areas of abortion, same-sex marriage and same-sex divorce, polygamy, domestic violence, no-fault divorce reform, parentage, and assisted reproduction. New principal cases since publication of the casebook include: <ul>
<li> Gonzales v. Carhart, the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the federal “Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act” </li> <li> In re Marriage Cases, the California Supreme Court decision invalidating the state ban on same-sex marriage </li> <li> Bailey v. Faulkner, a heart-balm action against the couple’s pastor </li> <li> Gonzalez v. Green, recognizing contracts between same-sex partners, and Beth R. v. Donna M., recognizing a valid foreign same-sex marriage </li> <li> State v. Carswell, upholding the constitutionality of the state domestic violence statute in light of the state DOMA </li> <li> Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Morrison, a disciplinary proceeding against an attorney who became sexually involved with a divorce client </li> <li> Richardson v. Richardson, an unsuccessful effort to modify a separation agreement by a former husband whose wife tried to hire a “hit man” to kill him </li> <li> Finstuen v. Crutcher, holding that full faith and credit requires Oklahoma to recognize adoptions by same-sex couples formalized in other states even though Oklahoma prohibits such adoptions and </li> <li> Jacob v. Shultz-Jacob, a ruling that a child can have three legal parents </li> </ul>
 New excerpts since publication of the casebook include: <ul>
<li> the validity of ceremonial Islamic weddings </li> <li> an epilogue on Loving v. Virginia </li> <li> the testimony of Jessica Gonzales (plaintiff in Castle Rock v. Gonzales ) before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights </li> <li> a narrative on Moore v. City of East Cleveland </li> <li> child maltreatment statistics </li> </ul>
 Other additions and updates since publication of the casebook include: <ul>
<li> eleven new Problems </li> <li> aging in the gay and lesbian community </li> <li> the constitutionality of the death penalty for child rape </li> <li> the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to Crawford v. Washington </li> <li> online dating fraud </li> <li> proxy marriage </li> <li> naming practices </li> <li> recent amendments to the FMLA and VAWA </li> <li> new paid family leave legislation </li> <li> firearm restrictions and domestic violence </li> <li> discrimination against same-sex couples in housing and employment </li> <li> the “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell” policy in the military </li> <li> paternity disestablishment </li> <li> bankruptcy reform </li> <li> child support enforcement </li> <li> custody disputes between members of same-sex couples </li> <li> grandparent visitation </li> <li> representation of children in custody and abuse cases </li> <li> parental relocation </li> <li> child abduction </li> <li> home schooling </li> <li> child abuse reporting </li> <li> transracial adoption, international adoption, and open adoption </li> <li> the legal status of sperm donors </li> <li> posthumous conception </li> <li> gestational surrogacy </li> </ul>

Modern Family Law: Cases & Materials 2008 Supplement

Kelly Weisberg

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Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (Casebook)

Modern Family Law: Cases & Materials 2008 Supplement