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The Family Law Education Reform Report Completed
by Andrew Schepard - February 13, 2006
Does the law school’s family law curriculum adequately prepare future family lawyers for the challenges of practice? The Report’s answer is “not well,” a conclusion that requires reconsideration of the nature and purposes of legal education in an area central to the welfare of thousands of children and parents.
How Children Contribute To Custody Disputes (Part I)
by Donald T. Saposnek, Ph.D.
Children's limited comprehension of the meaning and implications for them of their parents' breakup creates terrible confusion and emotional upset and generates characteristic attempts to cope with the disruption. However, the limited means they have for expressing their needs makes it difficult for their parents to accurately recognize and address those needs.
How Children Contribute To Custody Disputes (Part II)
by Donald T. Saposnek, Ph.D.
Children's limited comprehension of the meaning and implications for them of their parents' breakup creates terrible confusion and emotional upset and generates characteristic attempts to cope with the disruption. However, the limited means they have for expressing their needs makes it difficult for their parents to accurately recognize and address those needs.
Who Started It Doesn’t Necessarily Matter!
by Gary Direnfeld
Sitting between parents in a high conflict situation with regard to custody and access issues is like watching the scarecrow in the Wizard of OZ. However, with separated parents they are both pointing at each other, each blaming the other for initiating and maintaining their conflict. In many instances, both have contributed to their mutual conflict and hence both feel justified at incriminating the other. Regardless of who started it, in many instances it is clear, they both maintain it. As a concept this is known as circular causality.
Beyond Blame
by Lynn Duryee
When I became the Marin County family law judge this year, I expected to rule on child custody issues, disagreements about visitation, and disputes involving payment of child support. What I didn’t expect to rule on were fights between parents over whether their child should play soccer or lacrosse; study piano or violin; receive orthodontic treatment with Dr. Gonzalez in San Rafael or Dr. Falkow in Mill Valley; be bat mitzvah’d at the temple or confirmed in the church.
Family Law Education Reform Project Initial Draft of Findings and Recommendations
by Mary E. O’Connell and J. Herbie DiFonzo
This memorandum is intended as an initial draft of what we hope ultimately to shape into a final report of the The Family Law Education Reform Project. Interim drafts are designed to mark the on-going status of the project, and to furnish an opportunity for the many stakeholders and interested parties in this process to provide input.