Family Law

Find family law agreement forms, including premarital, separation, and marital settlement agreements, cohabitation and postnuptial agreements. Also covered are attorney-client fee agreements and nearly 600 related transactional forms.
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Legal cases, anecdotes, and history of family law show that love comes in different packages, each shaped by different contracts and mini-contracts that the author calls “deals.” Family law should and often does recognize that variety because legal rules, like relationships, aren’t one size fits all. The most common form of family—which Ertman calls “Plan A”—comes into being through different kinds of agreements than the more uncommon families that she dubs “Plan B.” Recognizing the contractual core of all families shows that Plan B is neither unnatural nor unworthy of legal recognition, just different.

The primary focus are the current rules applicable to the division of property at divorce. This includes a comparison of how various states define the types of property that are "divisible," as well as a summary of the factors that courts take into consideration when dividing the marital estate. It also explores enforceability of premarital or postnuptial agreements,and issues related to the division of pension benefits.
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