Who should read this book?

This book is a must-read for family law attorneys. If you occasionally dabble in family law, you need this book even more. It will give you key insights into the problems that are regularly occurring in the trial courts, and tips on how to help the trial judge avoid these mistakes in your client’s case. It also provides areas where we, as attorneys, parents, and judges, need to contribute to see the law further developed. Family law attorneys should raise the issues discussed under “Unresolved Issues” in their trial court cases and develop facts to strengthen those issues on appeal.

If you are a parent who is involved in or anticipates litigation in the family courts, this book will help give insight into what your family law attorney will be facing in court.

What is this book about?

A judge’s mistakes can impact a family in many ways. This book shines a light on what happens when judges don’t follow the law. It examines the court cases that touch the lives of parents with children - from custody to change of domicile, from grandparenting time to adoption, from guardianship to termination of parental rights.

Where are judges making legal mistakes? When are they ignoring the law? What happens after these judges’ decisions are appealed and reversed by the higher courts? And most significantly, how are these legal errors impacting our families and our children?