Editor's Note

• Author: Lisa F. Grumet

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Editor’s Note

This double issue features our annual “Year in Review” issue for 2020

and Exploring Identity, an issue named after a pathbreaking, award-

winning article by that title by Professor Marie-Amélie George of Wake

Forest University School of Law.

The Year in Review issue includes articles by Family Law Quarterly

(FLQ) Board of Editors members Professors Linda Elrod and Robert

Spector. As FLQ Editor Emeritus, Professor Elrod has provided her

annual survey of family law decisions throughout the country. Her article,

Review of the Year 2019–2020 in Family Law: COVID-19, Zoom, and

Family Law in a Pandemic, presents a comprehensive and engaging

review of numerous family law decisions relating to custody, child

support, parentage, marriage, divorce, property division, spousal support,

and interstate disputes, among other topics. Professor Spector’s annual

review of cases decided under the Hague Abduction Convention includes

discussion of cases decided by federal circuit and district courts, as well

as the U.S. Supreme Court. Thank you to Professors Elrod and Spector for

their wonderful contributions to this issue.

The Year-in-Review issue also includes Charts 2020: Family Law in

the Fifty States, D.C., and Puerto Rico, Part 1. Readers who are familiar

with the Charts will see some changes, and we welcome your feedback.

The changes are described in Editors’ Introduction to Charts 2020,

Part 1, authored by me and Shelby Arenson, the NYLS inaugural Executive

Law-in-50 Editor. Shelby, who graduated from NYLS in 2021, oversaw

all student work on the Charts, drafted keys to the Charts with denitions

for all column headings, and created a system for student editors to track

and review all Chart work. Thank you, and congratulations to Shelby

and to all NYLS student Editorial Board members, Senior Editors, and

Junior Editors for tremendous work on this project. Thank you also to

Lisa V. Comforty for her editorial contributions to the Charts and Keys

and throughout this double issue. As always, thank you to ABA Designer

Betsy Kulak and proofreader Betsy Blumenthal for their work throughout

the issue, and in particular for their help in presenting the Charts.

The second issue, Exploring Identity, features Professor George’s

pioneering article on custody decisions for children who are exploring

their gender identity. The issue also includes Daniel Malkin’s essay

Germline Editing Using CRISPR: Why a Moratorium Is Not the Solution,

which won second place in the ABA Family Law Section’s 2020 Howard

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