LAW6413

This capstone course is designed to expose students to the ways in which family law concepts are implemented practically and procedurally. The course will touch on traditional family law topics—such as premarital agreements, custody, and property divisions—in the contexts that practicing attorneys are likely to encounter these topics. The course will accordingly focus on interviewing potential clients, retaining and using experts, incorporating financial planners and therapists in family dispute resolution, conducting a mediation, and drafting documents such as cohabitation agreements, divorce petitions, settlement decrees, and parenting plans. Assignments will be designed both to prepare students for practice and to capture the way that family law practice is changing to deal with the realities of modern families. The course will offer rigorous practical experience and advanced theoretical and policy discussion.