Family Law
Overview
Family law generally concerns domestic relations and family-related matters such as marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships, adoptions, paternity, guardianships, domestic abuse, surrogacy, child custody, child abduction, the dissolution of marriage and associated issues. According to U.S. Census data the make-up of the American family has been changing. For instance, the 2000 Census revealed that less than a quarter of American families are married couples with minor children compared with 45% of such households in 1960.
A large percentage of marriages end in separation or divorce. When a couple decides to terminate their marriage, one of the parties will petition the court for a divorce. Besides seeking a legal termination of the relationship, the couple will also ask the court to divide the marital assets, grant child custody to one or both parents, and impose child and spousal support obligations, if applicable.
Featured CasesFeed
Uzamere v. Bush, et al
1:2008cv00891
Filed in New York Eastern District Court
Type of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Plaintiff: Cheryl D. Uzamere Defendant: George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Michael Mukasey, Michael Chertoff, Dr. Emilio T. Gonzalez and others...
Cause Of Action: Fed. Question
LegislationFeed
Bill Introduced: H.R.1951 Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and ...
To ensure compliance with the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by countries with which the United States enjoys reciprocal obligations, to establish procedures for the prompt return of children abducted to other countries, and for other purposes.Bill Introduced: S.928 Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the processing of claims for compensation under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.Bill Introduced: H.R.1896 International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act of 2013
To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to ensure that the United States can comply fully with the obligations of the Hague Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, and for other purposes.Bill Introduced: H.R.1898 To protect the child custody rights of deployed members of the Armed ...
To protect the child custody rights of deployed members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.Bill Introduced: S.825 Homeless Veterans Prevention Act of 2013
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of services for homeless veterans, and for other purposes.
RegulationsFeed
Notice - Office of Child Support Enforcement; Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended, the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is publishing notice of a new system of records, entitled ``Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) Child Support Services Portal,'' System No. 09-80-0387.Notice - Notice To Award Non-Competitive Successor Award to the State Information Technology ...
This notice announces that the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), will award a Non-Competitive Successor Award to the State Information Technology Consortium (SITC) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The award will enable the SITC to educate judges on effective problem-solving court strategies to deal with parents who do not make their child support payments.Rule - State Parent Locator Service; Safeguarding Child Support Information
In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2009, from the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled ``Regulatory Review,'' this action temporarily delays until May 22, 2009, the effective date of the final rule entitled ``State Parent Locator Service; Safeguarding Child Support Information,'' published in the Federal Register on September 26, 2008 [73 FR 56422]. The temporary delay in effective date is necessary to give Department officials the opportunity for further review of the issues of law and policy raised by this rule.Proposed Rule - Computerized Tribal IV-D Systems and Office Automation
This proposed rule would enable Tribes and Tribal organizations currently operating a comprehensive Tribal Child Support Enforcement program under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (the Act) to apply for and receive direct Federal funding for the costs of automated data processing. This proposed rule addresses the Secretary's commitment to provide instructions and guidance to Tribes and Tribal organizations on requirements for applying for, and upon approval, securing Federal Financial Participation (FFP) in the costs of installing, operating, maintaining, and enhancing automated data processing systems.Proposed Rule - Tribal Child Support Enforcement Program
Notice is hereby given for the dates and locations for one informational meeting and three Tribal consultations on the Computerized Tribal IV-D Systems and Office Automation Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). On June 11, 2008, the Federal Register will publish an NPRM that would enable Tribes and Tribal organizations currently operating a comprehensive Tribal Child Support Enforcement program under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (the Act) to apply for and receive direct Federal funding for the costs of child support automated data processing. This proposed rule addresses the Secretary's commitment to provide instructions and guidance to Tribes and Tribal organizations on requirements for applying for, and upon approval, securing Federal Financial Participation (FFP) under the Tribal IV-D program in the costs of installing, operating, maintaining, and enhancing child support automated data processing systems. The public comment period for this regulation will be 60 days from the date of the publication of the NPRM. The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will host one meeting to introduce the proposed rule and three consultations to receive public comment on the proposed rule. This notification provides specific information for the informational meeting and consultations.
ArticlesFeed
Doctoring Discrimination in the Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Indiana Law Journal, Forthcoming 2014, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-06-01 Elizabeth Sepper Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law Date Posted: June 15, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 19 downloads Closing the Widening Net: The Rights of Juveniles at Intake 46 Texas Tech Law Review (2013) Tamar R. Birckhead University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law Date Posted: June 14, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 59 downloads Family History: Inside and Out 111 Michigan Law Review 1001 (2013) Kerry Abrams University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Working Paper Series 7 downloads What Makes the Family Special? 80 University of Chicago Law Review 7 (2013) Kerry Abrams University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Citizen Spouse 101 California Law Review 407 (2013) Kerry Abrams University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 11 downloads Preferring the Stranger? Towards an Irish Approach to Muslim Divorce Practice (2013) 49 Irish Jurist 65-97 Máiréad Enright University of Kent, Canterbury Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Informal Care and Private Law: Governance or a Failure Thereof? University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 16/2013 Brian Sloan University of Cambridge - Robinson College, Cambridge Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Last Revised: June 14, 2013Family Home and Furnishing or Garnishing Property Thereof in the Establishment of the Civil Code
The Review Dreptul No. 6/2013 Teodor Bodoasca and Iulian Maftei Independent and Independent Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series In Opposition to the Mandatory Registration of Juvenile Sexual Offenders 3 Journal of Race, Gender & Poverty 21 (2012), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-8 David R. Katner Tulane University - Law School Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Family Property Symposium: Welcome Address "Family Property Symposium: Welcome Address" (1995) 25 VUWLR 1. Ivor Richardson Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads The International Adoption Cliff: Do Child Human Rights Matter? Forthcoming Chapter in a book on international adoption to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Elizabeth Bartholet Harvard Law School Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Last Revised: June 14, 2013Family History: Inside and Out
111 Michigan Law Review 1001 (2013) Kerry Abrams University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Working Paper Series 7 downloads What Makes the Family Special? 80 University of Chicago Law Review 7 (2013) Kerry Abrams University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 3 downloads Citizen Spouse 101 California Law Review 407 (2013) Kerry Abrams University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 11 downloads Preferring the Stranger? Towards an Irish Approach to Muslim Divorce Practice (2013) 49 Irish Jurist 65-97 Máiréad Enright University of Kent, Canterbury Date Posted: June 13, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Family Home and Furnishing or Garnishing Property Thereof in the Establishment of the Civil Code The Review Dreptul No. 6/2013 Teodor Bodoasca and Iulian Maftei Independent and Independent Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series In Opposition to the Mandatory Registration of Juvenile Sexual Offenders 3 Journal of Race, Gender & Poverty 21 (2012), Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 13-8 David R. Katner Tulane University - Law School Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Understanding Elder Abuse: New Directions for Developing Theories of Elder Abuse Occurring in Domestic Settings Research in Brief, National Institute of Justice, June 2013 Shelly L. Jackson and Thomas L. Hafemeister University of Virginia; Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Family Property Symposium: Welcome Address "Family Property Symposium: Welcome Address" (1995) 25 VUWLR 1. Ivor Richardson Victoria University of Wellington - Faculty of Law Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads The International Adoption Cliff: Do Child Human Rights Matter? Forthcoming Chapter in a book on international adoption to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Elizabeth Bartholet Harvard Law School Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Last Revised: June 14, 2013An Economic Examination of the Post-Transition Fertility Decline in Russia
Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 18, 2006 Louise A. Grogan University of Guelph - Department of Economics Date Posted: June 18, 2013 Accepted Paper Series Gender Differences in the Probability of Post-Divorce Rematching and the Quality of the New Match Sietse Bracke and Koen J. L. Schoors Ghent University - Department of General Economics and Ghent University - Centre for Russian International Socio-Political and Economic Studies (CERISE) Date Posted: June 15, 2013 Working Paper Series 1 downloads Understanding Elder Abuse: New Directions for Developing Theories of Elder Abuse Occurring in Domestic Settings Research in Brief, National Institute of Justice, June 2013 Shelly L. Jackson and Thomas L. Hafemeister University of Virginia; Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and University of Virginia School of Law Date Posted: June 12, 2013 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth? CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4244 T. K. Dennison and Sheilagh Ogilvie California Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics Date Posted: June 06, 2013 Working Paper Series 14 downloads Must Love Kill the Family Firm? University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-236 Vikas Mehrotra , Randall Morck , Jungwook Shim and Yupana Wiwattanakantang University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis , University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis , Independent and National University of Singapore - Department of Finance/Strategy and Policy Date Posted: May 26, 2013 Last Revised: June 04, 2013Armed Conflict and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Rwanda
Giulia La Mattina Boston University Date Posted: December 09, 2012 Last Revised: June 01, 2013
