Walter Wadlington is James Madison Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is co-author of Domestic Relations Cases and Materials (6th edition, with Raymond O'Brien); Children in the Legal System (4th edition with Samuel M. Davis, Elizabeth S. Scott and Charles H. Whitebread); and Family Law Statutes, International Conventions and Uniform Laws (4th edition) with Professor O'Brien. Raymond C. O'Brien is a Professor at Law at The Catholic University of America. He also holds a joint appointment at the Georgetown University Law Center.

He teaches Family Law and Decedents' Estates, coauthoring casebooks and statutory supplements on Family Law topics with Professor Walter Wadlington. He is also a coauthor of two casebooks on Decedents' Estates.