Part of the University Casebook Series®, reflects a changing society's legal needs. It discusses a number of provisions from the California Family Code and new statutes. The book's notes include San Francisco's domestic partnership agreement and Hawaii's current approach(es) to same-sex marriage. Other topics and cases include informal marriage, grandparent visitation rights, international custody disputes, ERISA preemption (Boggs v. Boggs), property settlement agreements, and policy on posthumous use of frozen semen.