Family Law
This library guide organizes online resources on Family Law for J.D. students at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law.
Family Law Library Guide
Welcome to the Family Law Library Guide designed to assist J.D. students in mastering course material. This guide offers a comprehensive collection of resources including case briefs, outlines, study aids/hornbooks, practice multiple-choice questions, practice essay questions, and CALI lessons. Additionally, you'll find multimedia resources such as video and audio content.
If you need assistance accessing one of the resources, please reach out to the Panza Maurer Law Library.
Family Law Content
The following resources are study aids that provide case briefs keyed to specific casebooks:
Quimbee
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LexisNexis
Click here for a case brief bank on LexisNexis.
West Academic Study Aids
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Quick Review of Family Law
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Sum and Substance Quick Review is a short, clear, concise, and substantive outline. It is designed to make the study of law clear and convenient, and it is designed to help students prepare for their law school exams. The main body is an outline of the substantive content that a student needs to prepare for a law school exam. The concise format provides a "Big Picture" overview allowing students to review the subject quickly prior to final exams.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781636592558Publication Date: 2022-03-07 -
Community Property in a Nutshell, 5th
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Community Property in a Nutshell, 5th ed., summarizes community property laws in nine states (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin). It also includes basic coverage of community property option states (Alaska and Tennessee). Each chapter covers a main topic of community property law followed by a legal analysis of the cases and statutes of each of the nine community property states. Chapters are in-depth enough to be useful to students, lawyers, and legislators, but also accessible enough for easy reference. Chapter topics include introductory materials (how the nine states came to be community property states and why that matters to their current community property systems), premarital agreements, transmutations, property characterization (how to identify community versus separate property), commingling (how to dissolve commingled property into community property and separate property components for specific categories of assets), management and control during marriage, liabilities during marriage, issues relevant to non-married intimate partners, marital dissolution, termination of a marriage by death of a spouse, and relevant areas of state/federal overlap. Statutory materials and cases are up to date for each of the nine states.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798892092524Publication Date: 2025-04-04 -
Family Law in a Nutshell
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Few areas of law practice cover as many issues as family law. The subject embraces marriage and divorce, annulment, custody of children, spousal and child support, complex property issues, paternity, domestic violence, adoption, and alternative means of reproduction. Each of these topics itself is complex. For example, within the broad subject of child custody lie the issues of interstate move away cases, international parental child abduction, and the impact of domestic violence on a parent's right to custody or visitation. In addition to purely legal issues, family law has a large psychological component, touching on some of the most important and sensitive aspects of human nature and interaction, such as, what is a family, what are the rights and responsibilities of parents toward children, and how should society respond to child abuse and domestic violence? All of these issues, and more, are discussed in this Nutshell. The book provides a thorough introduction to this challenging field of practice. As you prepare for the bar examination, check to see if family law is tested on the bar you intend to take. The Uniform Bar Exam tests family law. A number of state bar exams include family law. This book covers the family law topics you will encounter on the bar and in a family law course.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798892099387Publication Date: 2025-06-11 -
Surrogacy Law in a Nutshell
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Surrogacy has made parents out of people who thought it might never be possible. This book builds from the author's personal experience with surrogacy as an intended parent, but also as a law professor who has authored articles on surrogacy and a casebook in the field of contracts. This book is for the students, professionals and academics focusing on surrogacy, but is also for the intended parents, surrogates, and egg donors themselves to help with detailed information about the legal risks that need to be managed and the contracts involved that need to be structured to minimize that risk. This book combines an over-arching legal perspective with real world practical experience and stories. It is the author's hope that this book will inspire those contemplating surrogacy to pursue their family formation dream and give guidance to professionals and academics to help those people achieve miraculous results.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798892097420Publication Date: 2025-06-02
LexisNexis Digital Law Library
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Mastering Family Law
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Mastering Family Law helps students understand the basic principles and underlying policies of the topics covered in a general family law course. The content in this book is drawn from the table of contents of all the major family law teaching texts and includes all of the major topics covered in those texts. Consequently, a student will find this book a helpful supplement to any family law casebook. The book includes traditional family law topics such as marriage and divorce, but also covers child law topics such as the constitutional rights of parents and the definition of parents, among others. It provides a roadmap at the beginning of each chapter to focus attention on the important topics that will be addressed and a checkpoints list at the end of each chapter to summarize the important concepts as an aid to student comprehension and retention. The book is written in a student-friendly style designed to present the major concepts in easily understood language.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781611633290Publication Date: 2009-04-01 -
Mastering Adoption Law and Policy
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This title is the first of its kind -- it is a deskbook detailing the intricacies of U.S. domestic adoption law and policy. This deskbook is geared for use as a reference by the adoption law attorney, adoption professional, and law students. This book, written in clear and concise language, provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of adoption law. In addition to 14 chapters addressing the most critical topics of adoption law and policy (including, for example, consent, ICWA and TRA), the guide offers a chart of the current statutes from all 50 states, a detailed bibliography, a discussion of key Federal legislation, and much more. This book is a must have for all family law attorneys in general, and all adoption attorneys and adoption professionals in particular.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531001025Publication Date: 2015-10-01 -
Understanding Family Law
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Understanding Family Law includes comprehensive coverage of topics such as traditional and nontraditional families, nonmarital and postmarital contracts, annulment, paternity and legitimacy, procreation rights, contraception, abortion, sterilization, artificially assisted conception, and adoption and termination of parental rights. Like the prior edition, published in 2005, this new Fourth Edition of Understanding Family Law explains specific family law issues, such as intrafamily tort immunity and liability, medical care for child and spouse, wrongful life and wrongful birth, domestic violence, PINS, CHINS, ethical issues for the lawyer, alternative dispute resolution, equitable distribution, community property, and child custody and visitation. This Fourth Edition is updated to reflect changes in the law since the last edition. The discussion of assisted conception in particular, has been substantially revised to address technological changes and new law, such as the post-death conception case. This Fourth Edition also includes references to 50 states surveys so the reader can find their local law quickly.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780327189923Publication Date: 2013-03-01 -
Understanding Juvenile Law
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This Understanding treatise discusses the various bodies of law in relation to a fundamental issue permeating the entire field of juvenile law: the extent to which the law should protect young people rather than recognize them as autonomous persons. While the law traditionally adopted a protectionist posture, recent legal developments appear to recognize autonomy rights of adolescents in certain contexts. These developments are praised by some commentators who advocate wholesale rejection of the paternalistic model in favor of a system that treats adolescents as full-fledged persons under the law. This book does not advocate any particular resolution of the current debate about the nature of the rights of young people; rather, it suggests that sensitivity to the issues and arguments entailed in that debate is essential to any true understanding of the present state of juvenile law. With these concerns in mind, Understanding Juvenile Law begins with a general discussion of the nature of the rights of juveniles and the perception that young people constitute a unique class under the law. This theoretical introduction will serve as a background for subsequent discussion of juvenile law doctrine. The discussion separates aspects of juvenile law arising outside the juvenile justice system (defined in this text as the system of separate courts organized to deal with "delinquents" and "status offenders") from those arising within that system. This division is created as a useful means of organizing the doctrinal material, given the extensive body of rules that govern the juvenile justice system. Moreover, this organization permits the juvenile justice section to stand by itself as an independent text for students in courses that cover only that aspect of juvenile law. The eBook version of this title features links to Lexis Advance for further legal research options.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780769891712Publication Date: 2014-03-01
Aspen Learning Library
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Examples and Explanations for Family Law, Seventh Edition
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Informal and student-friendly, this best-selling study guide – highly recommended by professors teaching Family Law courses - provides thematic coverage of a wide spectrum of Family Law topics, including family and marriage formation and regulation, divorce, non-marital relationships, and reproductive rights and technologies. Family Law: Examples and Explanations, Seventh Edition, combines clear text with examples and explanations that allow students to test their understanding of concepts and practice applying the law to real-life fact patterns.
New to the Seventh Edition:
New introductory chapter regarding the evolving definition and regulation of families in America
Significant updates to chapters covering parentage, abortion, adoption, assisted reproductive technology, and alternative dispute resolution, including updated discussions of recent cases and legislation
Updated hypothetical examples and explanations in each chapter based on real cases decided in the last few years
Streamlined reorganization of chapters to prioritize recent trends in family law practice
Professors and students will benefit from:
Updated materials—utilizes recent cases and legislation to make the material current and easily applicable
Explanations include analysis of a wide range of state approaches to family law issues—this pedagogical approach provides valuable exam-writing skills for students
Readable and accessible—incorporates case examples and recent news to spark interest in students
Straightforward presentation—clear, introductory text enables students to understand and apply principles
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798886142143Publication Date: 2024-06-20
Hornbooks/Treatises from the Study Aid Collection
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The Law of Domestic Relations in the United States
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This part of the Hornbook Series analyzes both the continuity and changes that have occurred in the law of domestic relations in recent years. Alternatives to marriage like contract cohabitation, civil unions, and marriage itself are examined in light of state supreme court and United States Supreme Court cases. The economics of divorce including the division of property is presented with reference to the emergence of marriage equality. Adoption of children concludes the book with emphasis on the abandonment of secrecy and the new regard for openness.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781647087791Publication Date: 2021-05-25 -
Family Law in Perspective
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The Fifth Edition of the Perspectives book continues the focus of providing students, practitioners, and observers with insight into the ever-changing parameters of laws pertaining to family structure and responsibilities. Specifically, this book addresses, among other topics, nonmarital cohabitation, establishment of paternity, premarital and marital contracting, assisted reproductive technology, marriage, and divorce. Recent cases and federal and state statutes address specific topics such as surrogacy agreements, division of marital and nonmarital property upon dissolution of cohabitation or divorce, child support guidelines, and establishing custody rights through parenting agreements or what is considered in the best interest of the child. And there is a continuation of discussion illustrating equal protection, liberty interest, and free exercise in the context of same-sex relationships, the safety of partners and children, and termination of parental rights and possible adoption of minors. The Perspectives book seeks to provide the reader with a grasp of what is currently the law and a glimpse into where the law may be going.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781636590691Publication Date: 2021-08-09
West Academic Study Aids
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Black Letter Outline on Family Law
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This outline summarizes the black letter rules of family law, allowing students to understand how their course materials fit together.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780314194480Publication Date: 2009-02-19
Aspen Learning Library
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Emanuel Law Outlines for Family Law
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The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel® Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steve Emanuel while a law student at Harvard, these course outlines have been carefully revised and updated by Steve for over 30 years and have been relied on by generations of law students. Each book includes both capsule and detailed outline-format explanations and discussions of the critical issues, key topics, and cases you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alphabetical list of cases, and a table correlating the Emanuel® Law Outline to the leading casebooks. This book is a clear, comprehensive coverage of entire field of family law, including the latest Supreme Court cases, recent uniform and model legislation, and landmark state and federal decisions on LGBTQ rights including: (child custody, parentage, names, housing/employment discrimination); breastfeeding discrimination; divorce discrimination; marital paternity presumption; marital communications privilege; reproductive freedom and control; name disputes; state polygamy laws; parentage rights in multi-parent families; spousal spying for infidelity; move-away disputes; and tort actions against third parties. New to the Fifth Edition: Coverage of latest Supreme Court family law cases as well as recent uniform and model legislation, including: June Medical Services v. Gee Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colo. Civil Rights Comm'n Pavan v. Smith Sessions v. Morales-Santana Bostock v. Clayton County Uniform Parentage Act Uniform Nonparent Custody & Visitation Act Restatement, Children & the Law ABA Model Act Governing Assisted Reproduction Professors and student will benefit from: Thorough coverage of basic principles and doctrines that enhance student understanding Thoughtfully organized materials Broad coverage of all family law issues Up-to-date treatment of cutting-edge areas of law (LGBTQ rights, breastfeeding discrimination, reproductive freedom and control, challenges to state polygamy laws, legal issues facing multi-parent families) Cases that evoke human interest
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543823509Publication Date: 2021-02-17
Quimbee
Click here to find a Family Law outline from Quimbee.
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from LexisNexis Digital Library
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Questions and Answers: Family Law
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Understand better what you're learning in Family Law class and prepare effectively for exams by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes over 210 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 28 questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam." For each multiple-choice question, Professor Strasser provides a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, Professor Strasser provides a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780327170525Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from Quimbee
Click here for family law multiple-choice practice questions and answers.
Essay Questions and Answers from Quimbee
Click here to find practice essays and answers on family law from Quimbee.
Video Resources
Aspen Learning Library
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Family Law: In Other Words Video Series
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The videos from the In Other Words series cover fundamental topics in law. Each video is written and presented by a law professor or legal practitioner. In this Family Law video, Wendy Bach explains the topic of Requirements for and Restrictions on Getting Married.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543845167
Quimbee
The Quimbee Evidence Course covers the law governing the definition of family and the rights and obligations of family members to one another. It focuses on the restrictions, types, and dissolution of marriage, as well as child custody and support.
Audio Resources
West Academic Study Aids
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Sum and Substance Audio on Family Law by Now you can assimilate the essentials of family law at your convenience: while working, commuting, exercising, or relaxing. This audio product simplifies difficult concepts and brings them to life, while offering helpful exam tips.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: April 22, 2024
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Office Hours on Family Law by Gain the advantages of office hours with professors on your own schedule! The West Academic Office Hours series is a collection of short audio and video tracks that tackle some of the thorniest questions plaguing law students. The professors answer students’ most frequently asked office hour questions. With clear and easy-to-understand explanations, these professors will help you reach that “lightbulb” moment of comprehension, just as they have with their own students in their own offices. You now have virtual faculty explanations available at the click of a button! The Office Hours series features a variety of notable law faculty explaining these tough topics in new and thoughtful ways.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: April 22, 2022
Aspen Learning Library
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) provides self-guided lessons on numerous topics that are covered in law school courses. CALI lessons are interactive tutorials written by law professors for law students to engage with course material, review concepts, and prepare for class and exams. In addition to CALI lessons, there are many more tools and resources available from CALI.
The CALI Family Law Outline allows you to search for terms of art that correspond to topics you are studying to find suggestions for related CALI Lessons. The CALI Family Law Index lists all CALI Lessons covering Family Law.
CALI Lessons: Evidence
Below are a selection of CALI lessons on Evidence. To view all available CALI lessons, use this link to access all CALI lessons.