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- The Family Law Index lists all CALI lessons covering Family Law.
Subject Outline
- Marriage as a contract versus a status
- Heart Balm Statutes
- Contracting and marriage
- Premarital Agreements
- Common Law Marriage
- Cohabitation
- Constitution in the Context of Family Law
Constitutional Powers and Structures Review for Family Law (FAM12)- Constitutional Aspects of Family Law (FAM19)
- Constitutional Law – 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause
- Due Process
- Procedural
- Substantive
- Equal Protection in the Context of Family Law
- Fundamental Right to Marriage/ Fundamental Right to Privacy/ Fundamental Right to Raise their Children
- Suspect Classification
- Procreation
- Conception
- Sexuality
- Abortion
- Right to Die
- Marriage Regulation
- Constitutional Aspects of Family Law (FAM19)
- Marriage Regulations (FAM18)
- Procedural/Formal Regulations
- Marriage Regulations (FAM18)
- Covenant Marriage
- Common Law Marriage
- Substantive Regulations
- Annulment and Restrictions on Marriage
- Age and Competency Limitations on Marriage
- Incest Limitations on Marriage
- Polygamist Marriage Limitation on Marriage
- Same Sex Limitation on Marriage
- Marriage Regulations (FAM18)
- DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act)
- Void and Voidable Marriages
- Putative Spouse Doctrine
- Being Married
- Constitutional Aspects of Family Law (FAM19)
- Necessaries Doctrine
- The Marital Status (FAM23)
- Loss of Consortium Case
- Interspousal Immunity
- Rape and Domestic Violence
- Mandatory Arrest and Prosecution Policies
- Family Autonomy
- Constitutional Aspects of Family Law (FAM19)
- Parent’s rights to raise their children
- Parens Patriae
- Hospitalization of a child
- Common Law
- State’s role during the marriage
- State’s role after the marriage
- Grounds for Divorce
- Annulment
- Divorce Defined
- Separation Defined
- Fault Divorces
- Desertion
- Cruelty
- Incompatibility
- Adultery
- Incurable Impotence
- Imprisonment
- Habitual Drunkenness or Drug Addiction
- Neglect or non-support
- Defenses to Fault Divorces
- Collusion
- Connivance
- Condonation
- Recrimination
- Insanity
- No Fault Divorces
- Annulment
- Economic Incidents
- Property Division
Property at Divorce Crossword Puzzle- Commingled Property at Divorce (FAM24)
- Distribution of Property at Divorce (FAM27)
- Common Law States
- Community Property System
- Marital Property
- Non-Marital Property
- Transmutation
- Commingling
- Goals of property distribution
- (a) Self Sufficiency
- (b) Ending all Personal and Economic Ties
- New Property
- Classifying Special Types of Marital Property (FAM13)
- Accumulation or appreciation on marital property
- Pensions
- Good will
- Enterprise Good Will
- Personal Good Will
- Academic Degrees
- Spousal Support
- Compensatory Spousal Payments under the ALI Principles (FAM06)
- Alimony (FAM11)
- Alimony versus Property Division
- Gender Implications of Alimony
- Justifications for Alimony
- Form of Alimony Awards
- Eligibility for Alimony
- Alimony Factors
- Modification Alimony
- Alimony (FAM11)
- Modification of Alimony and Child Support (FAM17)
- Modification Standards
- Specific Types of Awards
- Recipient's Remarriage
- Recipient's Cohabitation
- Change of Circumstances
- Death of Either Spouse
- The income sharing formula
- Tax and Bankruptcy Considerations
- Separation Agreements
- Change of Circumstances
- Recipient's Cohabitation
- Child Support - Federal Role in Child Support
- Determining Child Support (FAM16)
- Distribution of Property at Divorce (FAM27)
- Battle grounds for the basics of child support
- Need
- Status
- Defining/Imputing Income
- Penalties for failure to pay child support
- Nurturing Parent Doctrine
- Support for Secondary Education
- Conclusion of Obligation to Support
- Enforcement: State and Federal
- Modifying Child Support
- Property Division
- Custody
- Custody Disputes (FAM01)
- Custody Terminology
- Legal Custody
- Physical Custody
- Split Custody
- Alternating Custody
- Joint Custody (Legal or Physical)
- Best Interest of the Child Standard
- Use of Psychiatric and Psychological Evaluations
- Primary Caretaker
- Tender Years Doctrine
- Visitation Rights
- Visitation and Relocation (FAM08)
- Same-sex & Gender Issues: Sexual Conduct & Custody/Visitation
- Third Party Visitation
- Removal of child - Moving out of State
- Modification of Custody
- Jurisdiction (with regard to divorce and custody)
- Child Custody Jurisdiction (FAM10)
- Children – Interstate jurisdiction and enforcement
- Child Support
- Support Jurisdiction (FAM02)
- UIFSA
- Modification of child support
- Federal Statutes Related to Custody
- Child Support
- Spousal Support Jurisdiction
- Divorce & Property Division Jurisdiction
- Paternal and other Parental Rights
- Paternity Crossword Puzzle
- Paternity and Legitimacy (FAM07)
- Constitutional Aspects of Family Law (FAM19)
- Legitimacy Doctrine
- Paternity and Legitimacy (FAM07)
- Biological father’s right to parenthood
- Presumption of fatherhood
- Overriding presumptions of fatherhood
- Cutting Edge Cases
- Artificial Insemination
- Step Parent’s right to parenthood
- Equitable Parent Doctrine
- Grandparents' right to custody and visitation
- Pregnancy by deception
- Reproduction technology
- Acquiring and Losing Children
- Adoption
- Adoption (FAM09)
- Race in Adoption
- Religion in Adoption
- Same Sex Adoption
- Termination of Parental Rights
- abandonment of child
- voluntarily relinquishment of parental rights
- state termination of parental rights
- Parental Rights of a Foster Parent to a Foster Child
- Alternatives to Foster Care
- Parental Misconduct
- Child Neglect and Abuse
- Adoption
