Modern Family Law: Cases & Materials 2008 Supplement

Modern Family Law: Cases & Materials 2008 Supplement image
ISBN-10:

073557166X

ISBN-13:

9780735571662

Edition: Supplement
Released: Aug 12, 2008
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
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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:

  • Gonzales v. Carhart, the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the federal “Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act”
  • In re Marriage Cases, the California Supreme Court decision invalidating the state ban on same-sex marriage
  • Bailey v. Faulkner, a heart-balm action against the couple’s pastor
  • Gonzalez v. Green, recognizing contracts between same-sex partners, and Beth R. v. Donna M., recognizing a valid foreign same-sex marriage
  • State v. Carswell, upholding the constitutionality of the state domestic violence statute in light of the state DOMA
  • Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Morrison, a disciplinary proceeding against an attorney who became sexually involved with a divorce client
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jacob v. Shultz-Jacob, a ruling that a child can have three legal parents

New excerpts since publication of the casebook include:

  • the validity of ceremonial Islamic weddings
  • an epilogue on Loving v. Virginia
  • the testimony of Jessica Gonzales (plaintiff in Castle Rock v. Gonzales ) before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  • a narrative on Moore v. City of East Cleveland
  • child maltreatment statistics

Other additions and updates since publication of the casebook include:

  • eleven new Problems
  • aging in the gay and lesbian community
  • the constitutionality of the death penalty for child rape
  • the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to Crawford v. Washington
  • online dating fraud
  • proxy marriage
  • naming practices
  • recent amendments to the FMLA and VAWA
  • new paid family leave legislation
  • firearm restrictions and domestic violence
  • discrimination against same-sex couples in housing and employment
  • the “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell” policy in the military
  • paternity disestablishment
  • bankruptcy reform
  • child support enforcement
  • custody disputes between members of same-sex couples
  • grandparent visitation
  • representation of children in custody and abuse cases
  • parental relocation
  • child abduction
  • home schooling
  • child abuse reporting
  • transracial adoption, international adoption, and open adoption
  • the legal status of sperm donors
  • posthumous conception
  • gestational surrogacy

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