Emanuel Law Outlines for Family Law (Emanuel Law Outlines Series)

Book Synopsis: The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel® Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steve Emanuel while a law student at Harvard, these course outlines have been carefully revised and updated by Steve for over 30 years and have been relied on by generations of law students. Each book includes both capsule and detailed outline-format explanations and discussions of the critical issues, key topics, and cases you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alphabetical list of cases, and a table correlating the Emanuel® Law Outline to the leading casebooks.

This book is a clear, comprehensive coverage of the entire field of family law, including the latest Supreme Court cases, recent uniform and model legislation, and landmark state and federal decisions on LGBTQ rights including: (child custody, parentage, names, housing/employment discrimination); breastfeeding discrimination; divorce discrimination; marital paternity presumption; marital communications privilege; reproductive freedom and control; name disputes; state polygamy laws; parentage rights in multi-parent families; spousal spying for infidelity; move-away disputes; and tort actions against third parties.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Coverage of latest Supreme Court family law cases as well as recent uniform and model legislation, including: June Medical Services v. Gee, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colo. Civil Rights Comm’n, Pavan v. Smith, Sessions v. Morales-Santana, Bostock v. Clayton County
• Uniform Parentage Act
• Uniform Nonparent Custody & Visitation Act
• Restatement, Children & the Law
• ABA Model Act Governing Assisted Reproduction

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Thorough coverage of basic principles and doctrines that enhance student understanding
• Thoughtfully organized materials
• Broad coverage of all family law issues
• Up-to-date treatment of cutting-edge areas of law (LGBTQ rights, breastfeeding discrimination, reproductive freedom and control, challenges to state polygamy laws, legal issues facing multi-parent families)
• Cases that evoke human interest