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Family Law Essentials 1st Edition

by William Statsky

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                          TABLE OF CONTENTS OF CURRENT EDITION

I. Introduction

• Introduction to Family Law and Practice

II. Premarital Agreements, Marriage Formation, Annulment

• Premarital Agreements and Cohabitation Agreements
• Traditional Marriage and Alternatives
• Annulment

III. Divorce

• Divorce Grounds and Procedure
• Spousal Support, Property Division, and the Separation Agreement
• Child Custody
• Child Support
• Tax Consequences of Separation and Divorce

IV. Women’s Rights, Paternity, Legal Status of Children Adoption, Family Torts

• The Legal Rights of Women
• Illegitimacy and Paternity Proceedings
• The Legal Status of Children
• Adoption
• The New Science of Motherhood
• Torts and Family Law