Faculty & Staff
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Barbara
Bennett Woodhouse David H. Levin Chair in Family Law Director, Center on Children and Families Co-Director, UF Institute for Child & Adolescent Research, Evaluation Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7615 e-mail: woodhouse@law.ufl.edu 352.392.9001 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
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Courses
- LAW 6710 - Family Law
(3 credits)
Nature of contract to marry and of marriage; requisites for validity; annulment doctrines; divorce; causes, grounds, defenses, jurisdiction; problems of the child; economic and tort relations between spouses and parent and child.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6930 – Child,
Parent and State (3 credits)
Covers child abuse and neglect, juvenile justice, adoption and foster care, and discusses education and health entitlements of children and conflicts between parents and children over medical decision-making, religion, schooling and emancipation. Students will engage in exercises involving drafting and oral advocacy in a simulated child protection case.
Prerequisites: Perspectives on the Family (LAW 6930) or
Family Law (LAW 6710) - LAW 6930 – Perspectives
on the Family (4 credits)
Covers the law of the family, including cases, statutes and constitutional precedents relating to marriage, divorce, non-traditional families, child custody, child and spousal support, adoption and reproductive technologies. Students will complete exercises in negotiation and drafting of documents in a simulated family law transaction.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6930 – Supreme
Court and the Family – Advanced Course (2 credits)
Examines the role of the Supreme Court in shaping and responding to changes in family law and explores methods and theories of constitutional interpretation. It begins with an overview of Supreme Court practice, and continues with a study of the Supreme Court's landmark cases in the area of families and children, including cases on state intervention in the family, contraception and abortion, the parent-child relationship, gender, sexual orientation and race discrimination in marriage and family contexts. The final section of the course involves application of these precedents to hypothetical cases raising cutting edge issues. Students will play the roles of law clerks, advocates and justices, preparing bench memos, arguing and deciding cases, and drafting opinions.
Prerequisites: Perspectives on the Family (LAW 6930) or
Family Law (LAW 6710). - LAW 6936 – Selected
Legal Problems in Family and Children's Law (2 credits)
Explores cutting edge issues including trends in the laws regulating marriage, divorce and child custody disputes, the respective rights of parents, children and third parties, the legal treatment of the nontraditional family, constitutional limits on state regulation of the family, trends in adoption and surrogacy law, the impact of reproductive technology on redefining the family, and other topics of current interest.
Prerequisites: Perspectives on the Family (LAW 6930) or
Family Law (LAW 6710).