Family Law

1
Family Law

• New Legal Area
• Chapter 5
• Love and Marriage

2
Family

• What is a family
• parents
• adoption
• foster
• blood relations
• good friends
• legally accepted boundaries

3
Changing American Family

• Many changes in 30 years (p. 323)
• Marriage (p. 576 and 577)
• 90 of all Americans
• Problems 3 and 4
• Marriage requirements (p. 325)
• Legal requirements (p. 326) (p. 328)

4
Marriage

• Annulment
• Age
• Bigamy
• Fraud
• Lack of Consent
• Common Law (p. 328)

5
Husbands and Wives

• A look at three types of marriages
• Financial responsibilities (p.330)
• Male has the financial burden (p.331/332)
• Property rights
• Separate rights
• Joint property
• Community property (p. 333)

6
Marriage Decisions

• Prenuptial Agreement (p.334)
• Name change
• Support
• Privileged communication
• Inheritance (p. 335)

7
Spouse Abuse

• Was legal to beat your wife in 1800s
• 95 are women
• Never happens one time
• Until 1980s was a difficult thing to prosecute
• Spousal rape
• Abuse advise (p.337)

8
Right to be Single

• What Rights do you have as an unmarried adult
  living with someone ?
• Palimony
• Immoral agreement (p.341)
• Marvin v. Marvin 1976
• Paternity 99.9 accurate (p.343)

9
Parents and Responsibilities

• Support
• Emancipation (p.345, 346)
• Family responsibility law
• Education (p. 348)
• To 12th grade
• Medical care

10
Parents and Responsibilities

• Care and Supervision (p. 349)
• Discipline (PINS,CHINS,MINS)
• Parental Responsibility for Childrens Acts
  (problem 20,21)
• Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
• Civil liability
• Childrens money

11
Child Abuse and Neglect

• Neglect negligent treatment food/clothe/shelter/
  medical/education
• Physical (p.354) (p. 356)
• Emotional (problem 23)
• Sexual Abuse

12
Foster Care and Adoption

• Foster Parents
• Full legal custody rights still held by birth
  parents and or the courts
• Responsible to the courts for health and welfare
  of child
• Reimbursed
• Adoptive Parents (p.360) (P. 362)
• Surrogate Mother

13
Family / Marriage Problems

• Most common problems
• In-laws and relatives
• job pressure
• adultery
• children
• sex
• communication

14
Family / Marriage Problems

• Most common problems
• Alcohol or drugs
• money
• loss of shared interests
• loss of shared goals
• Counseling

15
Family / Marriage Problems

• Separation and Divorce
• Informal Separation
• Legal Separation
• Divorce
• No easy solution
• 500,000 a year
• Family does not dissolve

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Divorce

• Adultery
• Desertion
• Mental Cruelty
• Insanity
• Other divorce methods
• Pro-se
• No-fault ... irreconcilable differences