Crouch & Crouch Guide to other law sources on the Web

Virginia Resources • Family Law • International Family Law • Family Law Public Policy • Family Law: Advice on Personal Life • Family Law in Specific States and Countries • Other Legal Resources • Treaty Revision News • Web indices and searchers • Web white pages and yellow pages • Culture

Here are some sites I recommend. There is no guarantee that the statute sites are kept up to date!
My introduction/instructions for use of this page have been moved, as I guess people don't need them anymore. They were circa Feb. 1996. You can read them if you want.

Virginia Resources

U.Va. Professor Charles Goetz's practical Virginia lawyers' page
General Assembly bill status updates: Domestic Relations • Minors • Department of Social Services • Juvenile matters • Juvenile Courts • Other subjects.
The No-Fault Divorce Reform Bill in Virginia, 1997-- Factual Summary
Northern Virginia Mediation Service
Identify actual county or city of street address (neat & quick, wrong about my house)
Robert Beard's Virginia Law Page (Some other sites' links to Mr. Beard don't work right, but this one works for me). • Danville information
For free customized on-line maps of any Virginia City or County, use the University of Virginia's Online Mapper • Weather • VDOT Highway Construction forecast • Speed traps • Virginia police cars
Virginia Declaration of Rights • Works of Jefferson •
Civil War: Arlington House, home of Gen. Robert E. Lee • Lee's Retreat
Loudoun's John Mobberly • Fredericksburg Civil War photographs
Civil War Books • Other Civil War web sites
Current view of Virginia from space (Having problems with this one because the hypertext code unnecessarily translates "=" into "%3D and "&" into "%26" -- so if you want to see it, copy the URL and type in the original = and & or just go to the fourmilab's Earth view and specify 77 West 37 North or whatever coordinates, altitude and features you want)


Family Law - General

The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act • Indian Child Welfare Act • More federal statutes •
Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act: 1) Available version most like Virginia's (Fla.) • Other versions •
Uniform Civil Liability for Support Act • Uniform Interstate Family Support Act •
Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act • Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
2nd Draft of model uniform act on interstate child visitation
The Custody Newsletter (for custody professionals) • Custody Evaluators' Web
Divorce online • Hieros Gamos Family Law Index • Divorce Link • Lyons's Divorce Law page • Lyons's library of Family Law Articles • Family law news stories
Family Law in Specific States and Countries

Family Law - International Family Law in Specific Countries The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Convention de La Haye sur les aspects civils de l'enlËvement international d'enfants International Child Abduction Remedies Act International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, USA Chapter International Parental Kidnapping info, advice and links from P.A.R.E.N.T. State Dept. Office on Children's Issues • State Dept. pamphlet on child abduction remedies (can save; read offline) • State Dept. Information on international adoptions Treaty Revision News United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Excerpts and Comments -- Criticism !!Ongoing Revisions and possible US action on Hague Convention on Protection of Minors and international conventions on international support enforcement!! Family Law - Advice on personal life Marriage Links The ABA's "PARTNERS" Divorce-Prevention Program PAIRS marriage training Before Divorce, a Last Chance for Repair Raggio Family Law Articles -- the Raggios are a whole family of eminent family lawyers Jeanine Wade's Hints for Divorcing Parents Advice on divorce and children from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychologists Advice for people undergoing divorce by Dean Hughson The Family Law Advisor. Two Boston divorce lawyers' newsletter, with good advice for divorce clients. Very readable and simple. Of course some things they advise only apply in Massachusetts, but they mostly talk about dealing with your spouse, your children, your finances, and yourself. Family Law - Public Policy Irish Bishops' Pastoral letter on marriage and the family Why Aren't Conservatives Talking About Divorce? By Wm. Mattox, Policy Review Divorce reform news • Community Marriage Policies

Family Law -- Specific States and Countries

Grounds for Divorce in all states of the U.S. • Links to State divorce statutes Brief Overview of US divorce laws Virginia Family Law • California • Cal. Family Code • Florida • Fla. Family Code • Hawaii • Indiana Family Code • Kansas: Dean Hughson's Divorce Page • Maryland: Layperson's Guide to the Law of Divorce • Massacusetts (Family Law Advisor) • Michigan • Texas • Vermont • Virginia Family Law • The No-Fault Divorce Reform Bill in Virginia, 1997-- Factual Summary Divorce and family law in Canada. A brief, useful guide to law, procedure and standards of proof in all common family law matters, with links to more detailed resources. Ontario Family Law Bulletin (does what Virginia State Bar's Family Law News did when it was on the Web. News, articles, and case notes) • Ontario Family Law Act • Quebec Civil Code on The Family • Search Australian Family Court cases Divorce in France and Child custody in France, which are part of the Family index of "Practical Life." , and Paris lawyer Brigitte Bogucki's family law page -- These are excellent web pages -- a sorely needed model of how to organize and present basic legal information on the Web for lay people and foreign lawyers. France's Civil Code sections on Marriage and Divorce are available from Rabenou.

Other Legal Resources

U.S. Tax Code in Cross-Referencing, Searchable Hypertext from Switzerland. January 1994 edition. The editor explains that it is "parsed" with "heuristics" and "kludges" and "a vast armamentarium of dirty tricks," just like the regular tax code. Kept in Switzerland's renowned "Ant Lab" along with a similarly situated U.S. Immigration Code. Searchable United States Code • Search Harvard law library by Telnet • Lawcrawler search engine Federal / State Tax Websites Guide • Treaty finder • Findlaw • Foreign state and country caselaw • Military law index • Code of Military Justice • Admiralty • Identify actual county or city of street address (neat & quick, wrong about my house) Goetz's Deceptive Graphics for Lawyers • The Practicing Attorneys' Home Page • Trust and Estate Attorneys Home Page • LawNet • National Law Net • Attorney Net • Shepard's Links • Newslink Index of On-line Legal Publications • Lex Mundi's Hieros Gamos comprehensive legal directory • Lawguru master search engine and "metaindex" • 'LECTRIC Law Library (has nice attitude, but little Family Law material) • Depublication • The World Wide Legal Information Association's LAWeb International -- aims at comprehensive coverage of the legal profession in the larger English-speaking countries • House of Lords decisions • Virtual Canadian Law Library • Searchable Brazilian legislation • Other Latin American Law sites • Very thorough index of foreign law • China / Hong Kong Law • French Ministry of Justice Law Page • Rabenou's Legal Adages (French and Latin) • Rabenou's French Law Page (his lawyer jokes are mostly the same old ones, but some are exceptionally filthy) • Bogucki's French law page • French Court Opinions • Venables's Guide to the British Legal System. Everything you need to know and no more. Excellent legal site. I reported on the doings of various English courts for three years without really grasping which was which, though I tried. This clears it up. Also tells which judges must be called "milord," which are "your honor," your worship," "sir" or "madam." • Law World -- Selections from John Crouch's foreign law column • The Legal Domain Network. Index to law-related computerised discussion groups. Lets you monitor them but doesn't let you participate, I think, so as to filter out the bozos who swamp such lists in drivel. No family law (as of 3/6/96) • Duhaime's World History of Law from Urukagina to GATT (WWLIA) • Plato's Laws • Attila's Court • Laws of William the Conqueror, in which he abolished capital punishment and the international slave trade (or at least strictly regulated it in the public interest) and essentially created the vocation of trial lawyer by allowing the "infirm" to have others stand in for them in trials by battle and in the ordeal of hot iron, as well as by requiring warranties on all sales. According to Blackstone, it was at this juncture that our ancient constitution and common law began seriously to go to pot. About one page long, in modern English • Ius Romanum • Roman law home page, with links to Roman law texts and literary works, including translations. This is a project of a law student at the University of Tuebingen who hopes to put all significant Roman law and medieval common law on the internet because he believes it will be useful in creating a common private law for the European community. He is looking for people to help type in or scan in essential texts, in any translation • Legal Art: Nice pictures if you don't mind the accompanying advertising and having to follow several links.

Searchers/Indices

Infoseek • HotBot • Alta Vista • Yahoo • Starting point • Magellan • Search other countries • Lawguru master search engine and "metaindex"

Web directories: white pages and yellow pages

"Four11" White Pages of e-mail addresses. I've found many old acquaintances with this. You can even search by what high school and college (but not law school) they went to • Internet address finder • "Lookup" White Pages • WhoWhere • Other Internet White Pages • Comprehensive Directory of Directories (Mostly Universities; Thousands of them) • 9-digit ZIP code directory (also tells what county or city address is in) • Worldwide phone and internet directories • The French phone book in English. Street addresses and phones, not e-mail. Yellow Pages of Web sites and e-mail: Newslink index of on-line pulications • www Yellow Pages • LinkStar • One World Plaza • Nihongo Yellow Pages (US-Japan) • The Central Source Yellow Pages • Metroscope (links by specific metropolitan area) AAA World, an Australian/international directory

Culture

Master Online Books Index • Project Gutenberg • Greek & latin classics, incl. translations • Virgil's Eclogues • (some additional classics and translations are more easily available at Thomas R¸fner's Ius Romanum site). • Index of all things ancient • Milton • Shakespearean insults • Complete works of Shakespeare • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations • Voltaire on current events • Czech page • Interactive Atlas of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia & Slovenia. Index entries link to points on map and you can zoom in & out & move around easily. Shows hills • The Louvre • French Caveman Pictures • More Cultural Links Return to Crouch & Crouch homepage Return to Family Law Materials
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