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Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions,... Read Full Overview

Offering complete and even more concise coverage that includes contemporary issues of debate, Weisberg and Appleton integrate rich interdisciplinary materials with great teaching cases, notes, and problems. Engaging narratives reveal the fascinating background behind the cases... Read Full Overview

<p> When you teach Family Law, how do you convey the lively social context of this continually evolving area? <b>Modern Family Law, Third Edition</b>, uses cases, notes, interdisciplinary materials, and problems to address the full range of the subject, with sensitivity... Read Full Overview

This comprehensive new Family Law casebook examines the conflict between respect for family privacy and deference to state authority. Using timely and well-chosen materials, authors Appleton and Weisberg convey an acute awareness of the impact of legal rules on people's lives... Read Full Overview

This dynamic casebook: - reflects the social diversity of the modern family - examines the social and legal impacts of: the women's movement, the children's rights movement, the fathers' rights movement, domestic violence, changing sexual mores, new family forms, and developments... Read Full Overview