Family Law

Family Law Information

What Is Family Law?

Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues and domestic relations including, but not limited to marriage, civil unions, divorce, spousal abuse, child custody and visitation, property, alimony, and child support awards, as well as child abuse issues, and adoption.

This list is by no means dispositive of the potential issues that come through the family court system. In many jurisdictions in the United States, the family courts see the most crowded dockets. Litigants representative of all social and economic classes are parties within the system. Because the family courts are notoriously under funded,  and see a relatively large proportion of economically dependent litigants, a common criticism levied is that the system inherently prejudices the needs of these disadvantaged parties.

For more free legal information on Family Laws, please use the links below:

• Marriage Law

• Divorce Law

• Spousal Abuse Law

• Child Abuse Law

• Child Support Law

• Child Custody Law