Family Law (LAW-636-001)
Kuntz
Meets: 06:00 PM - 08:40 PM (M) - Room 601
Enrolled: 44 / Limit: 45
Notices
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Description
An overview of the definitions of family, marriage, and divorce; the economic consequences of divorce; child placement; constitutional doctrine affecting the family; state intervention in the family; and the impact of gender on family law.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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The casebook for this course is Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials -- FIFTH EDITION, by D. Kelly Weisberg and Susan Frelich Appleton. You will need to purchase (new or used) this edition, as I will assign reading by page number.
First Class Readings
Reading for January 12: Access to marriage Casebook: 133-147 (Loving, Zablocki, Turner, with Notes) Path to Same-Sex marriage Casebook: 59-66 (Lawrence v. Texas); and 69-75 (notes 1-2; 4; 7-9; 12-13; 16, and Problem on page 75).