Family Law

The Honourable Landon Pearson's domestic and global advocacy efforts with, for, and on behalf of children and young people have unfolded over a per...

Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work on custody arr...

Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American soci...

The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than sol...

America's foster care system has a noble goal—to care for children that for various reasons can no longer be cared for by their families—but years ...

This work reviews the current thinking on guardianship of older persons, how the wards and the guardians are affected, and the process by which a p...

A Guide to America's Sex Laws is the first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws. It summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity,...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Vi...

Sex, although considered by many in our culture the quintessential private activity, is blanketed by a large number and variety of laws. This text ...

This open access book explores the High Court’s powers under its inherent jurisdiction and wardship in relation to children and incapacitous and vu...

American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human de...

No federal law in the United States requires that egg or sperm donors or recipients exchange any information with the offspring that result from th...

A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers. Are mothers truly a danger to their children’s healt...

The best interest of the child is an overriding principle in all matters of family law, especially in child custody cases. The Best Interests of Ch...

The Right to be Parents is the first book to provide a detailed history of how LGBT parents have turned to the courts to protect and defend their r...

From divorce court to popular culture, alimony is a dirty word. Unpopular and rarely ordered, the awards are frequently inconsistent and unpredicta...

Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman’s ...

This book is the first systematic account of the law and economics of the family. It explores the implications of economics for family law—divorce,...

How do we bring the law into line with people’s psychological experience? How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choi...