Janet Leach Richards is the Cecil C. Humphreys Professor of Law at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where she joined the faculty in 1978. She teaches Family Law, Family Law Seminar, Juvenile Law and Sales. She obtained her B.S. and J.D. from the University of Memphis and her LL.M. from Yale. She is a member of the American Law Institute, chair elect of the AALS Family and Juvenile Law Section, a master emeritus in the Leo Bearman Sr., Inn of Court and a member of the TBA Family Law Code Commission. She is a past president of the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, a Tennessee Bar Foundation Fellow, and a recipient of the Sam Myar Award. She is the author of Richards on Tennessee Family Law, Tort Defenses And Immunities, The Law In Tennessee, and a number of law review articles, dealing primarily with child custody issues. She is a co-author of Marital Property Division: A Fifty State Survey and the Tennessee Benchbook on Alimony.
Janet Richards

Janet Richards
Cecil C. Humphreys Professor of Law
University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Memphis, TN
CALI Lessons
This table shows Lessons and podcasts by this author. It includes Lesson title, CALI Topics for the Lesson, the date the Lesson was published on the CALI website, the date the Lesson was last updated, and run/usage totals for the past 30 and 120 days.
Note: usage information for podcasts is not available here and is marked as N/A.
Lesson Title | CALI Topic(s) | Published in |
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Runs Past 30 Days | Runs Past 120 Days |
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Visitation and Relocation | 2006 | September 20, 2006 |
13 |
207 |
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UCCJEA - Enforcement Provisions | 2006 | January 9, 2007 |
11 |
54 |
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Child Custody Modification | 2006 | December 11, 2008 |
30 |
148 |
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Classifying Special Types of Marital Property | 2006 | February 22, 2019 |
16 |
136 |
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Marriage Regulations | 2006 | February 22, 2019 |
67 |
273 |