Recommended Titles and Treatises
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Adoption
Handling child custody, abuse and adoption cases
3 volumes. Updated annually.
This is a practice resource for child custody, abuse and adoption cases. It discusses the law, basic strategies and trial techniques. Some of the topics included are establishing parentage, proving abuse, termination of parental rights, rights of unmarried parents,the Indian Child Welfare act, assisted conception and surrogacy, third party custody and visitation, and guardianship. This new edition also contains expanded and reorganized sections on international child custody and an expanded discussion of legal issues related to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered community, the mentally disabled parent and other special issues.Includes a table of laws and rules, table of cases and index.