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New York Family Law Research Guide

Search Tips for Identifying Treatises & Practice Aids

To identify relevant family law texts & treatises, you should consult Westlaw's and Lexis' collections of family law secondary sources, and also search SARA, the law library's catalog. 

Relevant subject headings from our catalog include:

  • Adoption -- Law and legislation
  • Alimony 
  • Children's Rights
  • Child support
  • Custody of Children
  • Domestic relations 
  • Family Violence
  • Marital property 
  • Marriage law 
  • Parent and child (Law)

Listed below are select titles from SARA, Westlaw and Lexis.  The first box lists titles associated with the practice of family law in New York and the subsequent boxes focus on titles which discuss the practice of family law generally in the United States.

New York Treatises & Practice Aids

General Family Law Treatises & Practice Aids