Family law is the area of practice that involves the legal relationships among family members, including husbands, wives, parents, children, and domestic partners. A family law lawyer handles legal topics suchs as adoption, child custody, visitation rights, domestic violence, divorce, juvenile dependency and delinquency, marital property rights, support obligations, and paternity.

Adoption law creates the legal relationship between parent and child who are not each other's biologically related. A decree of adoption typically means that the legal relationship of the adopted child is completely severed with its biological parent's family. For all legal purposes, adopted children become the children of their adoptive parents.

Child custody refers to custodial awards to determine who has the right to make decisions about the child, or legal custody, including decisions about education, religion, medical issues, and discipline, as well as where the child will live, or physical custody.

Child support payment is a court-ordered amount that the non-custodial parent must pay to the custodial parent to cover a proportionate amount of the child's expenses, including housing and utilities, food, clothing, education expenses, and other costs.

Spousal Support - An order for an ex-spouse to pay financial support ("alimony") for a specific period of time or indefinately.

An alimony award is generally paid in monthly installments.

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