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The Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family. From the early Roman Empire (30 B.C. to about A.D. 250) there survive many legal sources that describe Roman households, often in the most intimate detail. The subject matter of these ancient sources includes marriage and divorce, the property aspects of marriage, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of Roman orphans.

This casebook presents 235 representative texts drawn largely from Roman legal sources, especially Justinian's Digest. These cases and the discussion questions that follow provide a good introduction to the basic legal problems associated with the ordinary families of Roman citizens. The arrangement of materials conveys to students an understanding of the basic rules of Roman family law while also providing them with the means to question these rules and explore the broader legal principles that underlie them.

Included cases invite the reader to wrestle with actual Roman legal problems, as well as to think about Roman solutions in relation to modern law. In the process, the reader should gain confidence in handling fundamental forms of legal thinking, which have persisted virtually unchanged from Roman times until the present.

This volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, biographies of the jurists, basic bibliographies of useful secondary literature, and a detailed introduction to the scholarly topics associated with Roman family law.

A course based on this casebook should be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand better Roman social history, either as part of a larger Classical Civilization curriculum or as a preparation for law school. ... Read more

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This set of CDs includes a 4 hour lecture on Family Law and a 21 page handout.For the Law School Legends Audio Series, we found the truly gifted law school professors most law students can only dream about - the professors who draw rave reviews not only for their scholarship, but for their ability to make the law easy to understand. We asked these select few professors to condense their courses into a single lecture. And it’s these lectures you’ll find in the Law School Legends Audio Series. With Law School Legends, you’ll get a brilliant law professor explaining an entire subject to you in one simple, dynamic lecture. ... Read more

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Very Useful and Helpful
I found the course to be very helpful. While the course of six CDs plus a 7th CD with a PDF handout, which you can print and save to your computer, covers somewhat more material than the Abridged Sum and Substance Family Law, the big difference is the handout. It is easier to understand the material while reading along with the handout. (This is specially true with the Wills and Trusts which I highly recommend.) I've found that very few CD courses cover every subject as well as s book, for example, Gilbert's Family Law covers Parenting and the audio course barely scratches the service. Also, there are many particulars to Financial Consequences of Dissolution like Interstate Enforcement that you don't really need in a broad review of Family Law.

If you're looking for a preparatory course or general broad review, this will serve you well. If you want to know some of particulars of Family Law, you'll need your book, especially since it will vary from state to state.

Family Law CD's
Received CD's quickly.Can't rate the content as these were for my daughter in Law School. ... Read more

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This contemporary book reflects the emerging trends in American family patterns. With a focus on workplace preparation, it’s written so that readers understand not only substantive family law, but also the role a paralegal plays in a family law practice. Each chapter includes a wealth of cases, exhibits, and practical applications as well as end-of-chapter assignments that are hands-on and practice-based, with special attention to ethical considerations. Well researched and documented throughout, the book incorporates current issues in marriage and the family, addresses how emerging technology impacts the practice of law, and includes more multi-state references than many competing books. ... Read more

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Legalines gives you authoritative, detailed briefs of every major case in your casebook.You get a clear explanation of facts, the issues, the court’s holding and reasoning, and any significant concurrences or dissents.Even more importantly, you get an authoritative explanation of the significance of each case, and how it relates to other cases in your casebook.And with Legalines’ detailed table of cases, you can quickly find any case or concept you’re looking for.

But your professor expects you to know more than just the cases.That’s why Legalines gives you more than just case briefs.You get summaries of the black letter law as well.That’s crucial because some of the most important information in your casebooks isn’t in the cases at all… it’s the black letter principles you’re expected to glean from those cases.

Legalines is the only study aid that gives you both case briefs and black letter review.With Legalines, you get everything you need to know – whether it’s in a case or not! ... Read more

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This is the 2008 case supplement to Areen and Regan's Family Law, Cases and Materials, 5th Edition. ... Read more

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Great Buy!
Thank you it came quickly and was real cheap compared to barnes and noble and other places online!

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I got this about 2 or 3 days after ordering I think. Very fast. Book in great used condition! ... Read more

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Routledge-Cavendish Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge-Cavendish Lawcards your essential revision companions?

Fully updated and revised with all the most important recent legal developments, Routledge-Cavendish Lawcards are now packed with even more features:

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This new Law Stories title presents the back storieshistorical, procedural, personal and political of eleven significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family law scholars, cover four main areas: marriage (Reynolds, Loving, Goodridge), parenting and custody (Troxel), separation and divorce (McGuire and O'Brien) and the definition of family (Moore v. East Cleveland). Other essays investigate well known state and federal cases on such topics as child kidnapping, the intentional infliction of emotional distress, the Indian Child Welfare Act and frozen embryos. ... Read more

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This collection brings together experts from a wide variety of legal disciplines to comment on the way in which different areas of law affect the functioning family today. It refocuses attention on the intact family and the legal issues that affect it. The volume brings a modern critical approach to bear on the broad range of subjects that used to constitute 'family law.' A key consideration in this collection is the way in which law itself is premised upon, and in turn constructs, a particular image of the family. By bringing different areas of law together, it is possible to explore how differing ideas about 'the family' inform different areas of law. This approach allows Law and the Functioning Family to analyse the extent to which the law is (in)consistent in its concept and treatment of the family, both within and across disciplines. This is particularly timely in view of the passage of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, the implications of which reverberate throughout family law and allied disciplines, and the Law Commission's plans to reconsider the position of cohabiting couples. ... Read more

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A CANADIAN BESTSELLER FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED

For more than 30 years, Canadian Family Law has helped us to understand the legal issues surrounding marriage, separation and divorce, child custody and support. Now in its tenth edition, Canadian Family Law provides information on recent developments in family law, such as same-sex marriage, alternative dispute resolution and child support.

Among the topics covered are:

• The rights and obligations of marriage
• The components of a separation agreement
• Spousal support
• Child support and the new guidelines
• Guiding principles regarding custody of children
• Property rights and division of property
• The divorce procedure
• Domestic contracts
• The enforcement of agreements
• Mediation and arbitration
• A comparative analysis of family law statutes.

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Newly revised in its Fourth Edition, the popular text; Family Law for Paralegals offers a complete coverage of the basics of family law, combined with historical context and insight in topics of current interest. Engaging students with real-life examples and practical exercises centered on hot issues will induce excitement in the classroom and subsequently evoke a passionate response to the material covered in lecture.

Instructors choose Family Law for Paralegals because:

• this thoughtful and carefully written textbook offers paralegal students the nuts-and-bolts of the law, while also providing a relevant historical framework and exposure to some of the most dynamic issues in family law today

• short historical overviews in each chapter give students a meaningful understanding of family law

• comprehensive in coverage, the book covers basic coverage of the issues of marriage and divorce, as well as cutting-edge issues such as non-marital families, child abuse and neglect, and same-sex marriage

• helpful real-life examples enhance the textual discussions while sample forms show students what they will encounter in practice

• clear pedagogy—including summaries, key terms, and review and discussion questions—helps students better understand the material and develop their critical thinking and writing skills

• a range of assignments in each chapter provides students with the opportunity to practice different skills including research, analysis, memo writing, and argumentation

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Exciting changes to this Fourth Edition include:

• new cases that keep the book fresh in its Fourth Edition

• Internet references in each chapter

• updated topical coverage, with important new developments, particularly in the areas of gay/lesbian rights and nontraditional families

Family Law for Paralegals, Fourth Edition uses clearly-written text and well-crafted pedagogy to make the material easily accessible to students, while a comprehensive educational package supports the instructor’s efforts give their students a thorough understanding of family law as it applies today.

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A Lifetime Companion to the Laws of Jewish Family Life was written to help married -- or about to be married -- couples of all ages learn the laws of Jewish marital life. In addition, particular emphasis was placed on achieving an understanding of the interplay between Jewish law and women's health issues throughout the life cycle. It includes a comprehensive treatment of the Jewish laws governing sexual relations and menstruation, ritual bathing, pregnancy and birth control, menopause, infertility and medical conditions. ... Read more

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The Best Book on Taharat HaMishpacha
Dr. Zimmerman has done a fantastic job bridging a gap in knowledge about taharat hamishpacha (Jewish marital laws). This book does a great job of giving you a rundown of the basic principles and laws behind taharat hamishpacha. There is a lot of very practical information and just as importantly, this is not a sickly sweet propoganda piece touting the mystical nature of this mitzvah. Essentially, it is the modern woman's guide to taharat hamishpacha. Zimmerman offers solutions but encourages direct Rabbinic involvement if questions or problems emerge.

There is great women's health information that other books ignore entirely. Zimmerman also provides information on contraception and infertility and how those can affect mikvah practices. ... Read more

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Nearly one-fifth of Abraham Lincoln's cases involved women, and during the twenty-five years of his legal career thousands of women appeared in Illinois courts as litigants, criminal defendants, witnesses, and spectators. Drawing on the rich resources of a DVD version of Lincoln's complete legal papers, Daniel Stowell's "In Tender Consideration" scans the full range of family woes that antebellum Americans took to the law. Through the stories of dozens of individuals who took legal action to obtain a divorce, contest a will, prosecute a rapist, or assert rights to family property, this volume illuminates the legal status of women and children in Illinois and their experiences with the law in action. These cases also highlight Lincoln's life in law and raise intriguing questions about the influence of his legal profession on his subsequent political one. ... Read more

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Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children.He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women's and children's rights, and fixed more clearly the state's responsibilities in family affairs.Grossberg further illustrates why many basic principles of this distinctive and powerful new body of law—antiabortion and maternal biases in child custody—remained in effect well into the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Dry but the general argument holds up
Any attempt to assemble a detailed picture of society must take into consideration the legal structures that function within that culture. A court system works in two ways: judges influence society through its rulings as often as society at large influences the judicial system. Michael Grossberg's "Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America" is a work that combines a comprehensive examination of early American law with aspects of social history in an attempt to arrive at an overarching theme of the development of family law--what would later become "domestic relations" law--and its influence on the larger society. Grossberg relies heavily on legal sources, including appellate court rulings and legal tracts, to construct a three-stage progression of American family law.

According to the book, colonial family law was patriarchal in structure, tied closely to the state, and relegated women and children to the control of men. The American Revolution threw the colonial legal system, already under stress from a variety of factors including but not limited to the ability of settlers to leave for new lands, into chaos. What appeared in its place after a lengthy period of legal transformation involving an amalgamation of English legal principles and an emerging belief in American common law was a form Grossberg calls the republican family. The republican unit displaced the old patriarchal legal system in favor of laws that recognized individuals within the family. Too, this new form believed that state intervention in domestic matters was an evil best avoided. From the middle to the end of the nineteenth century, family laws across the board came under frequent assault from social reformers seeking to increase the role of the state in every aspect of the family. The end result was a hybrid of republican values and state intervention, of judicial discretion and legislative directives.

The author examines courtship contracts, nuptials, the fitness of those seeking to marry, contraception and abortion, the legal rights of illegitimate offspring, and custody rights. Repeatedly, Grossberg contends that the courts took the initiative in constructing a body of laws and rulings that supported individual rights within the family. Nowhere is this support more apparent than in laws concerning the rights of women and children. Custody cases tossed out the old concepts of colonial patriarchy, in which fathers held the ultimate power over spouses and children, and replaced it with a new system that allowed mothers to keep their children in cases of family disintegration. As for children, judges began allowing illegitimate offspring to petition for shares of family estates, something that was never allowed under the male oriented English law. Moreover, magistrates considered the emotional and physical well being of children, arguing that the "best interests of the child" required a reassessment of the father's dominance in family life. In this way and many others, argues Grossberg, judges assumed a patriarchal function in the American family.

"Governing the Hearth" is at its most fascinating describing the issues of birth control during the nineteenth century. The turmoil over this subject today tends to obscure how unimportant the issue was in the early part of the nineteenth century. American jurists subscribed to a belief stretching back into medieval times that claimed an abortion was not a sin or crime until the baby moved inside the womb. Called "quickening," this belief stood as accepted law until social reformers began agitating for new rulings against abortions performed at any stage of impregnation. Likewise, contraceptives came under attack from figures such as Andrew Comstock, who convinced Congress to pass laws banning the use of medicines and devices sent through the mail. One reason these chapters intrigue is because they show the relationship between the states and the federal government. During the early to mid nineteenth century, state's rights carried more weight than the powers of the federal government. The issues surrounding abortions are so controversial today that it staggers the imagination to realize there was a time when individual states decided the issue. Grossberg unfortunately never mentions how state versus federal rights played a part in family law.

The chapters on birth control laws succeed as well because they constitute one of the few areas in which the author links social history with his legal research. It is in these sections that the reader encounters the people involved in both sides of the issues, the unfortunate souls caught up in the tumult the courts experienced as the social reformers won their battles. Far too often the issues and court cases covered in this book seem like they float beyond the reach of any social, political, or economic realities. In some cases there can be little question as to why the courts dealt with certain issues. Even a cursory knowledge of American history explains why issues arose over the polygamy question in what is present day Utah. The same goes for miscegenation and the incorporation of freed slaves into preexisting marriage laws. But other parts of the book raise questions about what inspired legal changes during a particular time. On several occasions, Grossberg resorts to vague references about Victorian era perceptions regarding female behavior, specifically in the chapter on breach of marriage contracts. This explanation seems overly simplistic.

"Governing the Hearth" ultimately does make a compelling case for its central thesis, namely that the American legal system went through three distinct phases as outlined above. The book also convincingly argues that the fortunes of women and children improved greatly during the nineteenth century, and does so without overestimating their gains. For example, while women could retain custody of their children in the event of family disintegration they still had to fit societal standards of good conduct as defined by a patriarchal mentality. But the fact that women began to emerge as individuals with definite rights was family law's most significant contribution during the nineteenth century, laying the groundwork for greater gains in the next 100 years.

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This paralegal-specific introduction to family law provides current coverage of legal topics. The chapter format is designed to be practical and approachable—offering students experience with real cases and exposure to forms and checklists they’ll use on the job. Edited cases provide real-world examples. The brief paperback format gives you flexibility in course organization and opportunities for supplemental readings tailored to your needs. ... Read more

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Family Law Book
My book arrived quickly and in the condition states. I haven't read it yet since the class hasn't started. I'm sure it will be helpful to me. I'm glad for the great deal I got-a much better price than the college bookstore could ever offer, even for the used price! ... Read more

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Family Law offers a guide to the essential law, practice, and procedure that is at the heart of the Legal Practice Course. Offering material that is highly practical in nature and providing a concise account of the major aspects of the subject area, this text is an excellent guide for law students who need to develop a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of the law and procedure in a short period of time. This edition has been revised to include the latest developments in the legal field and discusses the relevant law likely to be encountered by the trainee solicitor in practice.

Using sample forms, checklists and self-test questions as well as examples, the book offers a bridge between the notes and exercises provided by LPC lecturers and the more complex practitioner texts.

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The 2008 edition will be accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which will update readers on the effects of the new case management protocol due in Spring 2008. ... Read more

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<p>After your casebook, <i>Casenote Legal Briefs</i> will be your most important reference source for the entire semester. It is<b> the most popular legal briefs series available</b>, with over 140 titles, and is relied on by thousands of students for its expert case summaries, comprehensive analysis of concurrences and dissents, as well as of the majority opinion in the briefs.</p><p><b>Casenotes Features:</b></p><ul><li><b>Keyed to specific casebooks</b> by title/author</li><li><b>Most current </b>briefs available</li><li>Redesigned for <b>greater student accessibility</b></li><li><b>Sample brief </b>with element descriptions called out</li><li><b>Redesigned chapter opener</b> provides rule of law and page number for each brief</li><li><b>Quick Course Outline</b> chart included with major titles</li><li><b>Revised glossary</b> in dictionary format</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p> ... Read more

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Family Law Case Briefs
Very prompt shipping! The book has been a lifesaver when tackling the many pages of reading per night. Condition of book is amazing. Overall, thumbs up! ... Read more

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A Practical Approach to Family Law provides a full picture of the law and practice relating to family proceedings in all courts. Its breadth of coverage and accessible style has made it an essential resource for students and practitioners alike.

The eighth edition has been completely updated to take full account of new statutory provisions, including the Civil Partnership Act 2004, the Adoption and Children Act 2002, the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 and the Gender Recognition Act 2004, as well as case law, Statutory Instruments, and Practice Directions.With new advice on library, information, and professional development resources, A Practical Approach to Family Law provides real assistance in dealing with this dynamic area of law. ... Read more

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This volume explores the present-day realities of Islamic family law, with particular emphasis on the rights of women. Three contrasting country cases have been selected: Egypt, the most populous Arab state with a constitutional clause on the place of "principles of the shari`a" as the principal source of legislation; the West Bank and Gaza, family law here being a contested site between different visions of national identity in the process of trying to build a Palestinian state; and the United States, where some in the minority Muslim communities seek to regulate their family relations in accordance with "principles of the shari`a" within the context of a non-Muslim state applying civil law requirements to all family matters. A concluding study ranges further afield in order to explore the challenges and potential of "principles of shari`a" in advocacy on the question of violence against women.
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