This sixth edition continues the long tradition of innovation for which this casebook is widely known and prized. Preserving the best of earlier editions, it delivers an up-to-date overview of U.S. family law that weaves together black-letter rules, policy, narrative, history, transnational sources, and theory into an accessible and teachable whole. The book is written to help teachers prepare their students to appreciate and engage family law's incredibly dynamic present, and to begin imagining how to actively shape its important, vibrant future.