September 14, 2006
New Book: "Creating Effective Parenting Plans"
Just Published! Resolve custody issues in the best interest of the child...
"Creating Effective Parenting Plans:
A Developmental Approach for Lawyers and Divorce Professionals"
By John N. Hartson, Ph.D. and Brenda J. Payne, Ph.D.
http://www.abanet.org/abastore/productpage/5130141
---Includes CD-ROM---
Today most visitation and custody arrangements in divorce cases are static and unchanging. "Creating Effective Parenting Plans: A Developmental Approach for Lawyers and Divorce Professionals" will assist you in developing a custody and parenting plan that effectively meets the needs of children from birth through age 18.
The "best interest of the child" is the currently accepted guiding principle in child custody determinations. This guidance calls for a developmentally appropriate parenting plan, that is, a custody arrangement that reflects the child's physical and psychological development. Historically, this has not always been the case. Even now it often faces challenges in the courtroom, running counter to the traditional attorney-client relationship, which often places the interests of the parents first.
Written by two pediatric psychologists who are experts in custody and visitation issues, "Creating Effective Parenting Plans" is an effective resource to assist lawyers in advising clients in the development of parenting plans that change over time to adapt to the best interests of the child. It explores the development of schedules of alternate parenting time with the best interest and developmental needs of the child considered first and not lost in the cacophony of parental conflict and competing claims.
Because presenting a case for a developmentally appropriate parenting schedule will present challenges for a practitioner, this book helps lawyers to provide clear evidence to the court of the child's age, present and expected developmental stages, and personal characteristics. Topics covered include:
-- A discussion of theories of attachment, temperament, language development, cognitive development, and emotional development;
-- An explanation of developmental issues at various stages from birth to age 2, age 2 to age 5, age 6 to 11, and age 11 to 18;
-- Other issues that can affect an effective parenting plan such as parental relocation, siblings at widely different developmental stages, mental illness, substance abuse, chronic health conditions, learning disabilities, and more.
"Creating Effective Parenting Plans" is an essential tool for dealing with the resolution of custody matters. It provides lawyers, judges, and parents with a basis to individualize the question of what is in a child's best interest, offering a different perspective on how to see the child as unique based on developmental research. In addition to chapters examining the developmental stages of children, this book provides ideas, checklists, and examples to guide clients through development of parenting plans that make sense. An accompanying CD-ROM contains forms and materials to use with clients.
2006, 250 pages + CD-ROM, 6 x 9, paper, ISBN: 978-1-59031-695-5
Review the Table of Contents here:
http://abastore.abanet.org/abastore/products/books/toc/5130141_toc.pdf
Price: $54.95 for ABA Section of Family Law members / $64.95 for nonmembers. For more information and to order online, please click here: http://www.abanet.org/abastore/productpage/5130141. To order by phone, please call the ABA Service Center at 1-800-285-2221 and request product code 5130141.
**MORE RECENT BOOKS from the ABA Section of Family Law:
-- "How to Build and Manage a Family Law Practice" by Mark A. Chinn -- http://www.abanet.org/abastore/productpage/5130140
-- "Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Lawyer's Guide to Emerging Law and Science" by Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., and Maureen McBrien -- http://www.abanet.org/abastore/productpage/5130139
-- "The Military Divorce Handbook: A Practical Guide to Representing Military Personnel and Their Families" by Mark E. Sullivan -- http://www.abanet.org/abastore/productpage/5130135
Posted by FamLaw at 01:24 PM
September 07, 2006
Symposium: “What’s the Harm?”
Symposium on “What’s the Harm?” How Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Harm Children, Families, Adults, and Society.
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, September 15 & 16, 2006
Perhaps the question asked most frequently by advocates of same-sex marriage is “what’s the harm?” BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and The Catholic University of America’s Columbus Law School are co-sponsoring a symposium next Friday and Saturday on the societal, individual, and jurisprudential harm of legitimizing same sex marriage. Many American’s take the live-and-let-live approach to such policies, so it is important to articulate how developments that might not initially involve most citizens do harm society as well as many individuals.
Twenty-four leading scholars and professionals, including Scott Fitzgibbon, Boston College; Marianne Jennings, ASU; Allan Carlson, The Howard Center, Peter Wood, King's College; Lynne Marie Kohm, Regent University; Robert Destro, The Catholic University of America; Roger Severino, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; and several BYU professors of law, psychology, political science, and family studies will participate in this event. For more information go to the JRCLS Marriage and Family Law Research Project website at http://www.law2.byu.edu/marriage_family/.
$10 for 1-7 of CLE credit. (Sessions 3 and 4 are less than one hour)
FRIDAY:
8:40 - 10:20 a.m.
WSC Varsity Theatre
Session 1: How Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Harms the Stability and Integrity of the Basic Social Institution of Marriage
10:30 a.m. - 12:10 a.m.
WSC Varsity Theatre
Session 2: How Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Harms Religion, Morality, and Sexual Responsibility
1:10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
303 JRCB
Session 3: How Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Harms the Social Interests in the Channeling of Safe Sexual Relations
2:05 - 2:55 p.m.
303 JRCB
Session 4: How Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Harms the Social Interests in Promoting Responsible Procreation
3:00 – 4:15 p.m.
303 JRCB
Session 5: How Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Harms the Social Interest in Fostering Optimal Childrearing
4:25 – 6:00 p.m.
303 JRCB
Session 6: How Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Harms the Social Interest in Protecting Adults, Especially Wives & Mothers, and Husbands & Fathers, Who Care for Family
SATURDAY:
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
306 JRCB
Session 7: How Legalizing Same-sex Marriage Harms the Social Interest in Fostering Virtue, Democracy, & Education
Posted by FamLaw at 11:31 AM
August 13, 2006
Book of Interest : Flying Solo
Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for Solo and
Small Firm Lawyers, Fourth Edition
Edited by K. William Gibson
"The best, most comprehensive, most readable publication on solo practice I have seen. This publication is essential for veteran solos as well as those contemplating the solo life. I heartily recommend it."
— Charles F. Robinson
Revised and completely updated, with over 700 pages, the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide includes practical information gathered from a wide range of contributors, including successful solo practitioners, law firm consultants, state and local bar practice management advisors, and law school professors. All the contributors share tips and advice that can be easily implemented in your solo or small-firm practice.
This classic ABA book first walks you through a step-by-step analysis of the decision to start a solo practice, including choosing a practice focus. It then provides tools to help you with financial issues including banking and billing; operations issues such as staffing and office location and design decisions; technology for the small law office; and marketing and client relations.
What's more, the final section on quality of life issues puts it all into perspective. Whether you're thinking of going solo, new to the solo life, or a seasoned practitioner, Flying Solo provides time-tested answers to real-life questions.
Product Details:
Product Code: 5110527
© 2005 7 x 10 705 pages Paper
Phone Orders: 1-800-285-2221
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Posted by FamLaw at 03:19 PM