Summarizes problems specific to remarrying families with children including complex kinship networks, ill defined roles, and financial and legal issues. Focuses on the family counselor's involving an attorney in services to remarrying families, with discussions of pre-marital agreements, inventories, living trust, estate planning, post-marital…

Some clients need encouragement to call a lawyer for an estate planning consultation. The counselor can prepare the client for the interview and serve with the lawyer as an interdisciplinary team interfacing with the client to guarantee that the family has both legal problems and emotional needs professionally considered. (Author)

Recent developments in the establishment of modern family codes of governing the relationships between husband, wife, and children have provided long needed vehicles which make interdisciplinary cooperation an absolute necessity. Counselors and lawyers must work together, as lawyers, courts, and juries proceed to divide families and property in…

Drawing analogies with areas of liability that exist in other professions, particularly psychiatry, the author calls attention to ways in which the social worker can protect himself against malpractice suits. (Author)

Problems arise in the areas of child custody, insurance, real and personal property, and wills and estates. Individuals choosing to cohabit should consider the ramifications of cohabitation prior to or early in the development of their relationship in order to avoid devastating legal complications. (Author)

Presents information about the legal role and powers of the grand jury. Alerts social workers to the possible shift from being an informational witness to being the focus of inquiry. Guidelines for grand jury testimony are offered, and the legal rights of social workers are reviewed. (JAC)