Research Guides: Family Law: Books

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Adoption Law Handbook by Jennifer Fairfax; American Bar Association, Section of Family Law Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: KF545|.F35 2011
ISBN: 9781614381150
Publication Date: 2013-02-26
When Gay People Get Married by M. V. Lee Badgett
Call Number: K699 .B33 2009
ISBN: 9780814791141
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Qualified Domestic Relations Orders by Raymond S. Dietrich
Call Number: KF535.7 .D54 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Important work for understanding the division of retirement plan and pension assets in divorce.
Forms, checklists, and procedures for the family lawyer / by Mark A. Chinn
Call Number: KF533.5 .C478 2010
ISBN: 9781616320218
Publication Date: 2010.

The following titles designed to facilitate student study are held on reserve at the circulation desk.

	Robert E. Oliphant & Nancy Ver Steegh, Family Law (Wolters Kluwer Examples & Explanations Series, 4th ed., 2013)
	Mark Strasser, Questions and Answers: Family Law (LexisNexis, 2011)
	John De Witt Gregory, Peter N. Swisher, & Sheryl L. Wolf, Understanding Family Law (LexisNexis 2013)