Family Law Prof Blog
Covers family law related news and issues, including marriage, divorce, adoption, child abuse, domestic violence and reproductive issues.
Author: Barbara Glesner Fines, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Nancy Ver Steegh, an associate professor at William Mitchell College of Law, edit Family Law Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Family Law • Law Professors • University of Missouri, Kansas City • William Mitchell College of Law • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Family Law Prof Blog
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Special Issue of Family Court Review Featuring Domestic Violence and Family Courts Available Online
"The July 2008 issue of Family Court Review featuring outcomes from the AFCC and NCJFCJ Domestic Violence and Family Courts Project is available for free online for a limited period of time at Link. The…
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Child Protection to Appeal Texas Ruling
"Child Protective Services has notified the Texas Supreme Court that the state plans to appeal a ruling that it had no right to seize hundreds of children from a polygamous religious sect, a court spokesman…
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Texas court of Appeals rules in Polygamy case
The Texas appeals court had said that authorities had no right to seize more than 440 children in a raid on the splinter group's ranch last month. The court held the state failed to show…
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California Supreme Court Issues Decision on Same-Sex Marriage
"In the present case, it is readily apparent that extending the designation of marriage to same-sex couples clearly is more consistent with the probable legislative intent than withholding that designation from both opposite-sex couples and…
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Remember Stepmothers on Mother's Day
"Mother's Day and motherhood sometimes aren't all they're cracked up to be - especially for stepmothers, the unsung heroes of blended families. Parenting always is a challenge, especially in the face of resentment by children…
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Post-divorce Parenting
"For children of divorce, what happens after their parents split up may be just as important to their long-term well-being as the divorce itself. A new study found that children who lived in unstable family…
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Mildred Loving Dies
The New York Times has a lovely story today about Mildred Loving - of Loving v. Virginia fame - who passed away May 2 at age 68. Read the story (last visited May 6, 2008)…
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You-Tube as Teaching Tool
Family Law Profs may be able to make good use of a bad idea: Former actress and playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith' prepared a YouTube video in which she discusses her divorce case, in particular the pre-nuptial…
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Report on AFCC & NCJFCJ Wingspread Conference on Domestic Violence and Family Courts
"The Report from the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) and National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) Wingspread Conference on Domestic Violence and Family Courts is now available online. Written by…
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Commercial Surrogacy in India
"An enterprise known as reproductive outsourcing is a new but rapidly expanding business in India. Clinics that provide surrogate mothers for foreigners say they have recently been inundated with requests from the United States and…