a. What is the name of the statutory code containing the statutes of your legislature? If more than one exists, list each one.
b. In this code, find any statute on divorce. Quote and cite the first line from this statute.
c. Find the court rules of any court in your state that can hear family law cases. Select any court rule on any family law topic. Quote and cite the first sentence of this rule.
d. What is the name of the regional reporter that contains the court opinions of the highest state court in your state?
e. How many West digests contain small paragraph summaries of the opinions of your state courts? Name each one.
f. Go to the “Descriptive Word Index” of any digest covering your state courts. List any three key topics and numbers on divorce.
g. Go to one of the three key topics and numbers in the main volumes of your digest. Under that key topic and number, find one case written within the last ten years by a state court of your state. What is the citation of this case? What key topics and numbers did you find it digested under?
h. Go to the reporter volume that contains the case you identified in question (g). What is the name of the court that wrote this opinion? Quote and cite the first line of the opinion.
i. What is the name of the legal newspaper most practitioners rely on in your state? In a recent issue of this newspaper, find any reference to a family law topic or case. Quote from and cite the reference.
j. Go to American Jurisprudence, 2d. Use the index volumes to find any topic on divorce. What topic did you select? Find that topic in the main volumes of Am. Jur. 2d. Quote and cite the first line of that topic in the encyclopedia.
k. In the footnotes for the topic you selected in Am. Jur. 2d, find a citation to an opinion written by a state court of your state. (Be sure to check the pocket part for the volume you are using.) If you cannot find such an opinion, pick another divorce topic until you can. What is the citation of the opinion?
l. Go to Corpus Juris Secundum. Use the index volumes to find any topic on divorce. What topic did you select? Find that topic in the main volumes of C.J.S. Quote and cite the first line of that topic in the encyclopedia.
m. In the footnotes for the topic you selected in C.J.S., find a citation to a court opinion written by a state court of your state. (Be sure to check the pocket part for the volume you are using.) If you cannot find such an opinion, pick another divorce topic until you can. What is the citation of the opinion?
n. Use the card or computer catalog to find any legal treatise that covers the law of your state alone. Go to the index in that treatise to find a discussion of any family law topic of your state. Quote and cite the first sentence of this discussion. If the legal treatise you selected does not cover the family law of your state, pick another treatise.
o. Find a legal periodical article that meets the following criteria: it covers a family law topic, and the name of your state appears in the title of the article. Quote and cite the first sentence of this article. (To find such an article, use whatever legal periodical index system is available in your library, e.g., LegalTrac, Legal Resource Index, Index to Legal Periodicals.)
p. Go to the Index to Annotations. Use it to find any annotation on any family law topic in A.L.R., A.L.R.2d, A.L.R.3d, A.L.R.4th, A.L.R.5th, or A.L.R. Fed. Go to this annotation. Find a reference in the annotation to any court opinion written by a court of your state. What is the citation of the annotation? What is the citation of the court opinion you found in the annotation? If the annotation you select does not cite an opinion from your state, pick another annotation from the Index to Annotations.
q. Go to the “Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest” volume of Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Find the summary for your state. Find a discussion of any family law topic. Quote and cite the first sentence of this discussion.
r. Go to the legal dictionary, Words and Phrases. Look up the definition of one of the following words: adultery, antenuptial, domicile, joint custody, or alimony. Find a definition written by a state court of your state. What word did you select? What is the definition? What is the citation of the opinion from which this definition is taken?
a. Is your state statutory code on the Internet? If so, give its address (uniform resource locator or URL) and quote from any statute on this site that covers divorce.
b. Try to find the Internet address of the Web site of any law firm in your state that handles family law cases. If you cannot find one, select a neighboring state.
c. What adoption resources specifically geared to your state are on the Internet? Select any three, give their addresses, and describe their services.
d. Go to the main site for your state government and your county government. On these sites, how many state or county government agencies can you find that have authority over some aspect of child support? Pick any three, give their addresses, and describe their function. Be sure to include the major statewide agency responsible for child support