Editor's Note

• Author: Lisa F. Grumet

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Editor’s Note

It is my honor to introduce this double issue of the Family Law Quarterly,

  

Law School (NYLS). This double issue comes at a time of considerable

challenge and change in our country and in family law.

Thank you and congratulations to our authors and to the FLQ Board

of Editors for their wonderful and timely contributions to family law

    Preserving Families: Parent Representation,

Immigration Reform, and LGBTQ+ Rights, includes articles by Professor

Martin Guggenheim, Claudio J. Perez, and Kharis Lund. The second

issue, Recent Developments in Family Law, features articles by Professors

Clare Huntington and Elizabeth S. Scott, Professor Ann Laquer Estin,

and Professor J. Thomas Oldham and Dr. Jane Venohr. These articles are

discussed in more detail in separate introductions to each issue.

Congratulations also to all of the NYLS Student Editors for their

outstanding contributions throughout the Fall 2020 semester; for their

      

       

        

Student Editorial Board members Aliyah Polner, Shelby Arenson, Kelly

Barrett, Erin Peake, Sabrina Smith, and Kathy Torres. In addition to

providing leadership, training, and support for all Student Editors, these

students created and implemented protocols for editing, researching, and

writing for FLQ, providing a strong foundation for NYLS’s inaugural year

and for the future.

Because this is the beginning of NYLS’s role in publishing FLQ, a

number of additional thank yous are in order. First, thank you to ABA

Family Law Section Chair Michael A. Mosberg, Chair-Elect Candace B.

Peeples, Editor Emeritus Linda D. Elrod, and the FLQ Board of Editors

for their amazing leadership, collaboration, and support. Thank you to

Lisa V. Comforty, Managing Editor, ABA Publishing, for making this

publication possible and for teaching me and the NYLS Student Editorial

Board everything there is to know about producing FLQ. Thank you as

well to ABA Designer Betsy Kulak and proofreader Betsy Blumenthal.

Additionally, thank you to NYLS Dean Anthony W. Crowell; Associate

Dean William P. LaPiana; the NYLS faculty, administration, and staff;

and Diane and Arthur Abbey. They have provided extraordinary support

for FLQ, for the Diane Abbey Law Institute for Children and Families

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