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Legislation Divorce Laws of the Fifty States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico (Cornell Legal Information Institute) State Statutes on Family Law (Cornell Legal Information Institute) Uniform Matrimonial, Family and Health Laws Locator (Cornell Legal Information Institute) ———————————————————————.
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Thomas Lyon, University of Southern California School of Law (Fall, 2001) Jurisdiction, Judgments and the Family Seminar.
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Associations AALS Section on Family and Juvenile Law ABA Section of Family Law American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers National Child Support Enforcement Association.
edu (unmoderated list for law professors at member schools of the Association of American Law Schools and fee-paid schools, and others teaching family law).
Family Law guide from JURIST: The Law Professors' Network.
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This section monitors family case and statutory law, and develops legislation for improvement of these laws.

Working committees (some of which are open to all section members) include: Gender Bias, Guardian ad Litem, Legislation, Child Support, Custody, Door County Workshop, Family Law Practice, Internet, Property Division and two multidisciplinary committees on accounting and mental health issues.
Inside the Bar August 2006: State Bar adds 234 family law forms to online Fillable Forms Bank Inside the Bar - August 1, 2006.
WisBar | Family Law Section
Dane County Family Court Resource Booklet available Dane County Family Court Counseling Service - August 31, 2006.
The section sponsors CLE seminars at State Bar conventions, has a listserv for members, and organizes the Family Law Workshop each August in Door County.

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Lambda Legal Seeks to Reverse Custody Restriction That Bars a Mississippi Mother from Allowing Contact Between Children and Their Aunt.
In Oral Argument at Pennsylvania Superior Court on Tuesday, Lambda Legal Will Fight for Lesbian Mom Seeking Long-Overdue Visitation with Her Child.
California Supreme Court Weighs Lambda Legal Lawsuit on Behalf of Lesbian Denied Infertility Treatment Because of Doctors’ Religious Beliefs.
Lambda Legal Launches New Child Custody Resources for Married Parents Who Divorce When One Comes Out as Gay or Lesbian.
‘Our client’s doctors’ behavior goes against established medical ethics and is not legal under California civil rights law.
Lambda Legal’s Return to Order to Show Cause Regarding North Coast’s Petition for Writ of Mandate and/or Prohibition in the California Court of Appeals.
Complaint filed by the ACLU and Lambda Legal in the United States District Court, District of Nebraska Other Resources 03/31/2006.
‘It’s very frightening to know that your legal relationship with your own child could be jeopardized by a ruling in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with you.
‘In our experience in courts around the country, more and more judges are seeing that our families need the same legal protection as everyone else.
Lambda Legal’s Opposition to the Writ of Petition filed by the North Coast Women’s Care Medical Group in the California Court of Appeals 01/21/2005.
Lambda Legal Urges Court To Overturn Earlier Ruling Allowing Health Care Providers To Refuse Treatment Based on Doctors’ Anti-Gay Religious Beliefs 01/09/2003.
Gay Man Can Pursue Wrongful Death Case as a Spouse, New York Court Rules; Lambda Legal Says ‘Breakthrough Ruling’ Is Nation’s First.
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ACLU and Lambda Legal File Federal Lawsuit To Strike Down Nebraska’s Extreme Law Banning Any Recognition of Gay Couples 04/15/2003.
Gay Man Can Hold Hospital Accountable for Partner’s Death After Routine Surgery Following Manhattan Hit-and-Run, Lambda Legal Says.
Lambda Legal and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Praise the California Medical Association For Affirming Equal Treatment for All Patients.
Lambda Legal's Friend-of-the-Court Brief signed by National Association of Social Workers, the Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University's School of Law Bluhm Legal Clinic and the ACLU of Illinois.
Mothers Seek Legal Protection For The Child They’re Raising; Lambda Legal Asks Appeals Court To Follow Ohio Law and Protect Lesbian Couple’s Relationship With Their Child.
Lambda Legal Asks Federal Court to Fast Track Case Seeking to Strike Down Oklahoma’s Extreme Antigay Adoption Law.
Issue: Family
Lambda Legal Files Brief Defending Ohio Lesbian Mother’s Right to Custody Against Attack Based on Antigay Constitutional Amendment.
Lambda Legal Tells Court that Health Care Provider Lied and Endangered Woman’s Health When Illegally Refusing Fertility Treatment Because She’s a Lesbian.
Oklahoma Health Department Will Issue Accurate Birth Certificates to Children Adopted by Same-Sex Couples Out of State.
‘The legislature singled out these families and tried to strip them of all legal protections, and that’s unconstitutional.
California Supreme Court Set To Hear Oral Arguments Tomorrow in Parenting Cases Involving Lesbian Mothers: Lambda Legal Urges Court to Protect Families.
Lambda Legal looks to affirm Ohio State Supreme Court’s earlier decision approving shared custody agreements for gay and lesbian parents 04/07/2004.
Lambda Legal’s answer brief to the friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations.
'This child’s world was turned upside down all because a Virginia court issued a knee-jerk antigay custody restriction.
Family Lambda Legal seeks fair treatment for lesbian and gay families, commonly denied legal protections that non-gay families take for granted such as adoption, custody, guardianship, and inheritance.
Lambda Legal Files Appeal in Virginia Court on Behalf of Lesbian Mother Unlawfully Being Kept from her Daughter.
Read Lambda Legal’s Petition for Review by California Supreme Court (attachment 2, doctors’ documents admitting they discriminated based on patient’s sexual orientation).
"Schools, hospitals or others may refuse services or access to records without a birth certificate that specifically names each legal parent.
Lambda Legal and NCLR to Argue Appeal Tuesday On Behalf of Gay Father In Maryland Custody Case Press Releases 09/28/2006.
Lambda Legal Asks California Supreme Court to Hear Case on Behalf of Lesbian Denied Infertility Treatment by Christian Fundamentalist Doctors.
Lambda Legal represents woman in case that’s at trial court after earlier landmark appeals court ruling that patients can sue health care providers for antigay discrimination 02/09/2004.
Federal Court Strikes Down Oklahoma’s Extreme Antigay Adoption Law in Lawsuit Brought by Lambda Legal.
Vincent’s Hospital Says Gay Couple’s 15-Year Relationship and Legal Spousal Union Should Not Be Recognized 01/09/2003.
Read Lambda Legal’s Petition for Review by California Supreme Court (attachment 1, Court of Appeal March 14, 2006 decision).
San Diego Lesbian Couple Must Have Equal Benefits at Their Country Club, Lambda Legal Says in Filing at California Supreme Court.
Ohio Appeals Court Affirms Legality of Shared Custody Agreements for Lesbian and Gay Parents, Lambda Legal Says.

Lambda Legal Urges California Supreme Court To Protect Families in Series of Lesbian Parenting Cases.
Lambda Legal Statement Regarding California High Court’s Positive Decisions Concerning Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents 07/20/2005.
Lambda Legal Files Brief in Virginia Supreme Court Seeking Birth Certificates for Children Born in Virginia and Adopted by Same-Sex Couples in Other States.
Lambda Legal Files Federal Lawsuit Seeking to Strike Down Extreme Antigay Adoption Law in Oklahoma.
Lambda Legal Urges Oklahoma Health Department to Issue Birth Certificate to Toddler Adopted by Two Gay Men in Washington State.
Pennsylvania Appeals Court Reunites Lesbian Mom with Daughter — Lambda Legal Hails Heartwarming Victory for Client.
‘This drastic law could be interpreted to nullify legal adoptions of children by same-sex couples in other states when they are in Oklahoma.
Lambda Legal and the ACLU Urge Federal Appeals Court to Reconsider Ruling Upholding Nebraska ’s Extreme Antigay Family Law 05/19/2006.
Lambda Legal Says Illinois Supreme Court Ruling Today Reinforces that Children's Needs, not Parents' Sexual Orientation, Dictate Parenting Decisions Statewide.
On the heels of an advisory issued by the Oklahoma State Attorney General, Lambda Legal seeks vital birth record 03/25/2004.