Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Laura Portuondo (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Family Law
Time: 1:00p-2:30p TTH Location: 210
Course Outline: This course explores how the law constructs, defines, limits, and regulates the family. It is designed around two major areas of law: adult relationships and parent-child relationships. Class materials consist primarily of case law and statutes, but also include media accounts, legal scholarship, and sources from other academic disciplines.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/1/2025 1-4pm 210
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: Important (MEE)
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: NeJaime, Banks, Grossman, & Kim, Family Law in a Changing America (Wolters Kluwer 2nd ed. 2024) (ISBN# 9798889066033)
