Relocation Litigation And Children’s Best Interests: Revisiting Burgess 1
This article appeared in a 1999 State Bar of Texas Family Law Section Report. It was adapted from the relocation monograph described as Social Science and Relocation Litigation. Readers interested in an abbreviated overview of the monograph will find this article helpful, but it lacks the documentation of the more complete publication (e.g., 20 versus 199 endnotes).
The article discusses the relevance and utility of social science in relocation disputes, and it Continue reading →
Social Science and Relocation Litigation
This treatment of relocation issues includes everything in Social Science and Children’s Best Interests in Relocation Cases plus all the material that was deleted from that article because of the journal’s space limitations. In addition to the topics described in Social Science and Children’s Best Interests in Relocation Cases, this monograph covers an overview of legal and policy issues in relocation cases, a discussion of case law (with citations to 39 cases and 16 articles in law publications), a list of factors to consider in relocation litigation proposed by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, greater elaboration of Continue reading →
