Section of Family Law Membership
The Section of Family Law has over 10,000 lawyer, associate and law student members across the country and worldwide. Our members are dedicated to serving the field of family law in areas such as adoption, divorce, custody, military law, alternative families, and elder law. We also encourage non-lawyer membership in the Section. To understand more about the Section's mission and benefits, continue reading below or use the links at the right of the page. When you're ready, don't forget to Join the Section!
Membership Benefits (What's in it for you?)
For just $50, you'll receive a variety of benefits to enhance your practice or further your interest in family law. You get practice resource tools, CLE opportunities, and much more, including:
- Subscription to Family Advocate—A quarterly news-and-feature magazine addressing
timely family law topics, including one special Client Handbook issue per year that you
can buy in bulk. (A great resource for your clients and their families!) Members may also read FA online.
- Subscription to Family Law Quarterly—Our scholarly journal
provides you with an analytical view of existing and emerging family law issues. Annual features
include "A Review of the Year in Family Law" and "Family Law in the Fifty States: Case Digests."
You'll also be able to read or download FLQ articles online.
- Family Law Case Update—This monthly update delivered via e-mail provides recent family
law case developments throughout the country, allowing you to closely monitor case law as it develops.
You'll also have online access to the Case Update archives dating back to 2004.
Sign up online for this member benefit after you've joined the Section!
- eNewsletter—Our monthly eNewsletter highlights Section news, products, books and events,
as well as tips on how to make the most of your membership. The eNews also features "Best of the FamLawEsq
List Serve," which focuses on a specific question and answers from our popular FamLawEsq list
serve for lawyer-members only.
- Books —As a Section member, you'll receive great discounts on more than 25 practice-specific and general titles written by the country's leading family law experts.
- CLE Opportunities—Section members receive discounts on our CLE programming.
Whether it's a CLE conference in person or a Teleconference via the phone or web, we provide
programming on a variety of topics, including recent changes to laws affecting the family law
practitioner. View our Events Calendar for a list of
upcoming CLE or to purchase materials from recent CLE conferences and teleconferences.
- Committees—Get involved,
network, become a leader. Members can join up to three of our 20+ substantive committees.
Produce CLE, keep up with committee activities, ideas, legislation, and other resources via e-mail.
Sign up for your committee's list serve to get the discussion rolling and share resources.
- Online Resource Center—The ORC allows members
to share documents with one another while building a downloadable collection of family law
model forms, checklists, articles, pleadings, and other related documents. It's knowledge
sharing at its best, and it's free to you as a Section member!
- List Serves—The FamLawEsq list serve is for our lawyer members only. It provides a
national forum for discussion and debating of current cases, referrals, expert witnesses, and case
law interpretations. We also have other topical lists for all of our members to join, as well as the
committee list serves.
- Family Law Website—Section members can access a variety of valuable information on our
website. You can also register for meetings/teleconferences online; peruse our book list and order
through the Web Store; join committees; sign up for list serves; find topical articles to help
you with your cases via the periodical archives; and access and contribute to the Online Resource
Center. It's your one-stop shop for all things family law!
Knowledge. Expertise. Networking
We pledge to provide you with opportunities to share knowledge, learn from the experts and expand your network using the tools, resources, and products that we provide with your membership dollars. The Members Only Center is your portal to our top membership tools. These tools include list serve groups, CLE conferences, TeleConferences, eNewsletters, substantive committees and much more, as noted above.
Not Just for Lawyers!
Because family law is a field that involves many professions, the Section offers associate membership
to non-lawyers, including mediators, psychologists, CPAs, social workers, consultants, and paralegals.
This varied membership not only brings unique skills and perspectives to the Section, but also allows
for a wider network of experts available to Section members.
If you're not a lawyer, but have an interest in any area of family law or work in one of the aforementioned (or similar)
fields, we encourage you to join today as an Associate member.
Law students may also join the Section for just $6.50.
Join the Section of Family Law
Ready to join and begin receiving your benefits? Choose your method below:
- ABA members can Add the Section of Family Law now. (You'll need to be logged in to the ABA website.) If you have never logged in before, your password is your last name in lowercase letters.)
- Call the ABA Service Center at 1-800-285-2221 and ask to join the Family Law Section.
- You must be a member of the ABA to join the Section of Family Law. Learn more about ABA membership and join the ABA today. (Don't forget to add Family Law when you join!)
Section Information
Join the Section
- Join Family Law (ABA members)
- Join the ABA and Family Law
- Join by phone at 1-800-285-2221
Member Login
Members Only Center
Section of Family Law members may login to access the Members Only Center - your portal to resources, periodical archives and more.
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