LexisNexis' stable of child and family law Expert News Sources bring a broad range of experience on legal issues that affect families and children, including all types of adoption, child custody, child abuse, marital agreements and divorce.

Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Marianne Blair and James Marsh have all written extensively on family law and adoption. Joan Heifetz Hollinger is an outspoken advocate of children's rights and is the principal author and editor of Adoption Law and Practice, the leading treatise on adoption law. Hollinger is also the author of Families by Law: An Adoption Reader. Marsh is the author of the chapter Federal Paternity Proceedings in Disputed Paternity Proceedings and Federal Impact on Adoption in Adoption Law and Practice and is also the founder of Children's Law Center in Washington, D.C. Blair also contributes to Adoption Law and Practice with her chapter "Liability of Adoption Agencies and Attorneys for Misconduct in the Disclosure of Health-Related Information" and is in addition co-author of Family Law in the World Community and International Family Law, Conventions, Statues, and Regulatory Materials.

Jeff Atkinson, whose writings have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and eleven state supreme courts, is the author of Modern Child Custody Practice, The American Bar Association Guide to Family Now and more than 50 articles on legal and public policy issues.

Merritt McKeon is an international and interstate family law and appeals expert with expertise in child custody and domestic violence. She is a contributing author to Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, and Child Custody and Stop Domestic Violence: An Action Plan for Saving Lives.

Kurt Kumli is co-author of California Juvenile Courts Practice and Procedure and is also an instructor for the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Juvenile Law Institute at the University of California, Riverside.

A founder and principal in the BioLaw Group, Ami Jaeger is a nationally recognized expert in assisted conception. She is an advisor to state governments and national groups on emerging issues in reproductive genetics and embryonic research.

Diana Richmond is a certified family law specialist with experience in nearly every aspect of family law, including complex marital property issues, spousal and child support, child custody and premarital agreements. She is an experienced family law advocate at both the trial and appellate levels and often works as a mediator, settlement conference facilitator or private adjudicator for family law and related controversies.
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• Spousal and child support
• Same sex parents
• Property rights
• Child custody
• Divorce
• Collaborative reproduction
• Stem Cell Research
• Parentage issues with assisted reproduction
• Domestic violence
• Chile abuse
• International adoption
• Wrongful adoption
• International and interstate divorce
• Juvenile court and records access
• Delinquency

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