Family Law for Paralegals

Comprehensive, contemporary, and redesigned for maximum classroom effectiveness, FAMILY LAW FOR PARALEGALS, Second Edition, helps you train students for their future professional roles. The text offers both background material and practical guidance: each chapter includes a short historical overview to put current law in context shows the full scope of the law by covering both basic issues of marriage and divorce and cutting-edge issues such asnon-marital families, child abuse and neglect, and same-sex marriage real-life examples enliven the text, and sample forms prepare students for practice helpful learning aids - summaries, key terms, and review and discussion questions - facilitate student understanding And The development of critical thinking and writing skills Strengthened for its Second Edition: scrupulously updated text incorporates new developments in the field including civil unions, The federal Violence Against Women Act, covenant marriage, parenting plans, streamlined termination and adoption procedures, Troxel v. Granville on grandparent visitation rights, and co-parent rights careful editing removes unnecessary detail and streamlines the historical background, resulting in a more readable, more accessible book the reorganized chapter on Child Support integrates legal developments instead of reviewing various statutes for easier comprehensionJ. Shoshanna Ehrlich is the author of 'Family Law for Paralegals' with ISBN 9780735524439 and ISBN 0735524432.