Maryland Family and Juvenile Law: Practice Manual and Forms

Maryland Family and Juvenile Law: Practice Manual and Forms

Prominent Maryland attorney, Natalie H. Rees, Esq., has drawn from her extensive experience to bring you insightful, instructive discussions, in-depth commentaries, and summaries of the law for virtually every family and juvenile law situation you may encounter in this dynamic Manual featuring a bonus CD with more than 220 electronic forms.

This exhaustive Manual, with its more than 930 pages of valuable content, will help you stay current and efficient by providing appropriate statutes and regulations – complemented by Ms. Rees’s thorough discussions and analyses of any changing family or juvenile state laws. Plus, you’ll be expertly guided through an extensive selection of appropriate family law forms, using an easy-to-follow format. Included are customizable e-forms that are organized in chronological order, as a case would unfold. The sample forms include correspondence, pleadings, interview forms, checklists and more.

Recent Updates Include:

• new forms for domestic partnerships of same-sex and opposite-sex couples, limited scope representation, and change of name after divorce;
• new sections on same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships of same-sex and opposite-sex couples, and changes of name after divorce;
• updated case law, statutory provisions, and procedural rules; and
• all of the forms in the Manual conveniently provided on the accompanying CD for your immediate use.

Natalie H. Rees, Esquire, is an attorney who has practiced exclusively in family and juvenile law for over thirty-four years. She has sub-specialty practices in child abuse and neglect, adoption, gestational carrier, and donor egg. Ms. Rees was a full-time law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law from 1978 to 1985, where she taught courses on: Family Law; Juvenile Law; Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis; Trial Advocacy; and, Appellate Advocacy. As a law professor, she also served as the Director of the Juvenile Law Clinic. Ms. Rees has continued teaching as an adjunct law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law teaching a clinical Family Law Workshop and for University of Baltimore post-graduate programs teaching Family Law. She was recognized in Baltimore Magazine in 1995 as one of the top six family law litigators in Maryland.

Ms. Rees has served as a legal consultant to the Courts of Appeal of Maryland, Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Family and Domestic Relations Subcommittee. She is the co-founder of, and attorney for, Family Building Center, Inc., a licensed child placement agency specializing in gestational carrier and donor egg procedures. Ms. Rees maintains law offices in Towson and Stevenson, Maryland.

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SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1A: General Family & Juvenile Law Practice Forms

Chapter 1: Marriage

Chapter 2: Children

Chapter 3: Separation

Chapter 4: Divorce

Chapter 5: Domestic Violence

Chapter 6: Juvenile Causes

Chapter 7: Paternity Proceedings

Chapter 8: Adoption

Chapter 9: Guardianship of a Minor Child

Chapter 10: Change of Name

Chapter 11: Gestational Carrier and Donor Egg

Chapter 12: Domestic Partnerships of Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples

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