Legal Research @ CUNY : New York Family Law Research

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Other Research Guides

New York Family Law (U. of Buffalo)

NY Family Law Secondary Sources

Westlaw New York Family Law Secondary Sources (Pooled together, filter to family law and NY)

Callaghan's Family Court Law & Practice (Westlaw)

New York Family Court Practice - NY Practice Series (Westlaw)

New York Law of Domestic Relations - NY Practice Series (Westlaw)

New York Law of Domestic Violence (Westlaw)

New York Matrimonial Law & Practice (Westlaw)

New York Matrimonial Practice (Westlaw)

Lexis Secondary Sources (Pooled together)

LexisNexis AnswerGuide New York Family Court Proceedings (Lexis)

LexisNexis AnswerGuid New York Matrimonial Actions (Lexis)

New York Civil Practice: Family Court Proceedings (Lexis)

New York Practice Guide: Domestic Relations (Lexis)

Lawyer's Manual on Domestic Violence: Representing the Victim, 6th Edition (online)

NY Civil Procedure Secondary Sources

See page on CPLR

Annotated CPLR McKinneys (Westlaw)

Siegel's New York Practice (on reserve) - One-volume, classic work on New York practice. Also is available on Westlaw - but not for normal law school subscriptions, not cool! - BUT now we do have access through ProView - use this link, which will require you to use your CUNY First credential and then search for Siegel's New York Practice and it is available there. Or try this link to go there directly.

New York Civil Practice: CPLR (Weinstein Korn & Miller) (Lexis)

Carmody-Wait 2d, New York Practice with Forms (Westlaw)

NY Court Rules and Resources

New York Rules of Court (Westlaw)

Forms (NYS Unified Court System)

Introductory Guide to New York City Family Court (NYC Bar)

Uniform Rules for the Family Court (NYS Unified Court System)

Obtaining an Order of Protection (NYS Unified Court System)

NY State Defenders Association materials on Family Defense

Administrative Agencies

NYC Administration for Children's Services (ACS)

ACS Policy Library Search

New York Office of Children and Family Services

OCFS Policy Directives

Statutory & Administrative Provisions

E.g., Child Protective Administrative Hearing Procedure (New York State Regulations)

Administration for Children's Services (New York City Charter)

Children's Services (NYC Administrative Code)

Confidentiality of Records

New York State Child Protective Services Manual, Ch. 13, Confidentiality and Legal Sealing

State Central Register

Brooklyn Defenders, Navigating the State Central Register

New York State Child Protective Services Manual, Ch. 3, State Central Register Responsibilities

NY Social Services Law § 422

Federal Practice & Procedure

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Westlaw's USCA has an annotated version of the FRCP that has the same research tools as are available for statutes, including Case Notes (selected by editors) and Citing References (which creates a custom pool of cases, secondary sources, etc that you can search against).

Federal Practice & Procedure (Wright & Miller) - Westlaw & in print - This is the classic Bible of federal practice - detailed (over 75 volumes), comprehensive & authoritative.

Moore's Federal Practice: Civil - Lexis & in print - The other classic treaties on federal practice, this one from Matthew Bender/Lexis.

One problem with Wright & Miller and Moore's is that depending upon what you are trying to research and in what depth, using these resources can sometimes feel like trying to drink out of a fire hose.

For a more abbreviated, but very helpful source, try O'Connors Federal Rules Civil Trials

For more treatises on specific litigation topics, also try browsing Westlaw Litigation Texts & Treatises

Dockets & PACER

Federal & NY Dockets

Section 1983 Litigation

Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Litigation: The Law of Section 1983 (Westlaw)

Federal Judicial Center: Section 1983 Litigation (Westlaw)

Section 1983 Litigation in State and Federal Courts (Westlaw)

Using 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to Obtain Relief from Violations of Federal Law (Chapter 16 from Jailhouse Lawyers Manual)

and remember annotated version of the statute!

Federal Tort Claims Act

Federal Tort Claims (Westlaw)