This complete, up-to-date reference gives family law practitioners comprehensive coverage of all contemporary family law areas. Here is an authoritative treatise that guides practitioners through all of the procedural and substantive law arising in cases of dissolution, adoption, and many other areas. California Family Law Practice and Procedure (2nd) includes helpful practice tips by noted family law practitioners, as well as a panel of eminent family law judges.
Step-by-step guidance includes:
- A complete volume (including forms) on how to draft marital settlement agreements, as well as contracts
between intended spouses, cohabitants, and more
- How to handle custody cases, including custody and visitation rights of grandparents, surrogacy birth
arrangements, and the standards applicable to 'move away' cases
- Complete coverage of child support, including a detailed discussion of how to compute child support under the statewide uniform child support guideline
- Valuing and dividing vested and unvested pension rights and other public and private benefits on dissolution
- How and when to bifurcate a trial
- Community and separate property issues, including
the latest law relating to tort liability
- Paternity issues, including determination by DNA testing
- How to enforce foreign judgments
- A complete volume of camera-ready Judicial Council forms, including
every form required for the practice of family law in
California
- Coverage of the property rights of unmarried cohabitants
- Full discussion of the tax effects of dissolution
First published in 1978.
Also available on LexisNexis CD California Law and Practice Library CD-ROM.
