Family Law

This national publication covers custody and visitation matters including a disputed custody or visitation proceeding, effective use of expert witnesses, substantive law of custody and visitation, alternatives to traditional approaches and practical advice on management of a case. Analysis of UCCJEA, PKPA, ICWA, and the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction are discussed. Additional topics are child custody mediation, child abuse and custody, custodial rights, use of mental health experts and child custody evaluation reports and custody determinations in light of reproductive technologies in custody-visitation disputes, disputes between parents and disputes between parents and non-parents.
Leixs (ID and password required)

The title provides an in-depth analysis of children's legal rights as consumers, victims, and perpetrators. It covers areas such as: Child welfare, termination of parental rights, child custody and support, guardianship, juvenile delinquency, dependency and severance, adoption, including international adoption, education, domestic relations and healthcare. Other topics include limits on school officials to police the private lives of students, life imprisonment without parole as an unconstitutional sentence for a nonhomicide juvenile case, criminal consequences of “sexting”, the rights of children with AIDS, searches of students' lockers, cars, purses, and persons. Appendices contain state-by-state summaries of the law.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Coverage includes the means for establishing parentage, proving abuse, terminating parental rights, drafting mediation agreements, awarding joint custody, strategies for interviewing a child, including one who's been sexually molested. It addresses the use of videotapes for interviews, evaluations, and testimony, memory and suggestibility, appeals, the effect of military deployments, international child custody issues, issues related to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community and sections on assisted reproductive technology.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Navigates the broad and complex legal issues affecting the rights of children. Topics include: Child custody, visitation, and support; Adoption; Inheritance laws; Property law; Torts; Contracts; Child pornography and prostitution; Child labor; Institutional care and Education rights.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

It analyzes each step of the custody proceeding, describes how to use--or rebut--the testimony of mental health professionals, explains when joint or split custody is a viable alternative, discusses visitation by the noncustodial parent, grandparents and stepparents, evaluates the type and degree of change required to modify custody,, and handling an out-of-state move by the custodial parent. It revews the orientation and techniques used in mediation. The work includes forms, checklists, case examples, detailed citations and appendices, and domestic and international child custody jurisdiction.
Lexis (ID and password required)