Search

Introduction By Alexa Gonzalez and Nora Kelly This article provides summaries and context for 31 changes to family law that were enacted in 2023 by legislatures in 26 states and [...]

I. Introduction This year's family law cases included the usual getting married and getting divorced with the attendant custody, support, and property issues. There seemed to be an unusually large [...]

Introduction This article provides summaries and context for 35 changes to family law that were enacted in 2022 by legislatures in 23 states. The topics include Child Custody, "NonparenC Custody [...]

I. Introduction Life returned to a more normal rhythm in 2022. State and federal courts returned to in person hearings and trials as vaccines became widely available and states lifted [...]

Key to Chart 1: Divorce and Alimony/Maintenance Statutes in 2021 Definitions of the terms used in Chart 1 are provided below. Please note that the term "alimony" refers to post-divorce [...]

Introduction This article provides summaries and context for 30 new family law statutes that were enacted in 2021 by legislatures in 20 states and the District of Columbia. The topics [...]

Introduction COVID-19 continued to impact families, lawyers, and courts throughout all of 2021. Vaccines started becoming available in January as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved vaccines by Pfizer, [...]

Editors' Introduction: Chart 5, Property Division Statutes, 2020, and Chart 6, Child Support Statutes, 2020 A Continuation of Charts 2020: Family Law in the Fifty States, D.C., and Puerto Rico [...]

Introduction Although COVID-19 shut down courts across the country starting in March 2020, lawyers and judges rose to the challenge of navigating a justice system run remotely from homes across [...]

Editors' Introduction to Charts 2020, Part 1 Charts 2020: Family Law in the Fifty States, D.C., and Puerto Rico, Part 1 provides information about family law statutes in these jurisdictions [...]

Introduction Family law cases continued to explode in numbers across the country as the 2018-2019 reporting year saw a wide variety of issues. As families crossed state or country boundaries, [...]

I. Introduction Congress, the United States Supreme Court, and the varying appellate courts across the country made front page headlines in a variety of family law cases. Congress passed the [...]

I. Introduction The United States Supreme Court and several appellate courts across the country made this a banner year for changes in family law. Although federal courts generally decline jurisdiction [...]