Family Law

LAW 416-01	Family Law	3 credits
This course covers requisites for marriage, pre-nuptials, paternity, property management during marriage, spousal abuse, parental child rearing rights, grounds for divorce, property distribution upon divorce, consequences of cohabitation prior to marriage, alimony, child support, and child custody and visitation. Professor Dwyer’s section will take a more comparative (i.e., some reading of foreign law) and theoretical approach, while also focusing on Virginia statutory law and the skill of statutory interpretation.

*courses not offered every year