The authors of this edition have thoroughly revised and updated the prior work, yet maintained its overall scope, coverage and organization. Highly flexible individual teachers can decide what parts of the book to assign. Includes 40 new cases, new material domestic violence and same-sex relationships, and coverage of recent developments such as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, and the American Law Institute"s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution.