Readying for the Future of Family Law/Becoming Adults: How Law & Policy Treat Coming of Age

Children

Child Custody Innovations for Family Lawyers: The Future Is Now

By: Linda S. Smith, Ph.D. & Eric Frazer, Psy.D.

This article analyzes how emerging legal tech start-up companies will disrupt traditional use of psychologists in family law cases and suggests new ways for counselors of law to help address parenting issues.

Family

The Sky Is Not Falling: Lessons and Recommendations from Ten Years of Reinstating Parental Rights

By: Meredith L. Schalick

This article addresses ten years of experience with what once was an unimaginable subject. An increasing number of states allow "rehabilitated" biological parents who had their parental rights either voluntarily or involuntarily terminated to resume parenting responsibilities for their children.

Taxation

Structuring Tax Dependency Post-Divorce for Noncustodial Parents

By: Thomas M. Spade & Linda J. Bradley-McKee

This article explains the intricacies of properly granting tax benefits.

Family

Ten Things Practitioners Should Know about the Hague Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance

By: Robert Keith

This article describes continuing effort to improve child support enforcement in an increasingly interconnected world.

ACA (Health Care Reform)

Health Care at a Price: The Impact on Young Adults' Medical Privacy and Autonomy of Being Covered on Their Parent's Health Insurance Until Age Twenty-Six

By: Valerie K. Blake and Jessica A. Haught

This article looks at how the Affordable Care Act approached concerns that young adults were left without healthcare coverage when they turned eighteen and found themselves kicked off their parents' health insurance plans before they had time to seek employment that either provided healthcare coverage or enough of an income to purchase that coverage.

Family

Objectively Offensive: The Problem of Applying Title IX to Very Young Students

By: Amy B. Cyphert

This article delves into the problem of the hyper-sexualization of child's play, that is, the punishment of children for engaging in age-appropriate behavior that may be considered by adults to be sexual in nature but is not harmful or out of the ordinary.

Family

The Trajectory of Childhood - Bridging Adolescence to Adulthood

By: Benita Miller

This article describes a shift in policy in New York City that is aimed at helping keep kids raised in the City at home, should they choose to remain there, in times when it is increasingly difficult for young people of modest means to afford to live in New York.

Family

Improving Child Representation: An Overview of the Field and Recommendations for Improvement

By: Ann M. Haralambie

This is a review of Donald Duquette's book, Children's Justice: How to Improve Legal Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System.

Family

Editor’s Note - Summer/Fall 2017

In this combined issue, we take on two topics that are appropriate as we prepare to become an entirely electronic publication: topics focused on transition. The first we’re calling “Readying for the Future of Family Law,” which addresses the changing world of family law practice in a time of technological advancement. The second is called “Becoming Adults: How Law and Policy Treat Coming of Age”; it focuses on the delicate line between adulthood and childhood and how the law manages (or fails to manage) the challenges that come with rigid legal definitions as applied to the fluidity of youth and adulthood.

Family

Introduction: Fall 2017, Vol. 51, No. 3

By: Kendra Huard Fershee

An introduction to the Fall 2017 issue.