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Family Law

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Family Law Concentration

Creighton University School of Law

Family Law Concentration

Your Experience

You have the opportunity to specialize in three different tracks - Family Law Practice, Children’s Law, and Elder Law – or pursue a general family law concentration.

Your Courses

The Family Law Concentration is designed to help you become practice ready in any of the three tracks offered, but you are not required to specialize in a particular track, particularly if you choose to take only the courses required. You must earn 21 credits from a group of five required courses and by choosing one course in each of two required areas, Track Direction and Lawyering Skills. The required courses are Family Law Practice, a 3L spring simulation course; its two prerequisites, Marriage & Divorce and Federal Income Tax; Children, Families & the State; and Elder Law. Several additional courses comprise the Track Direction options: selected externships (listed below at the drop-down menu), Estate Planning, Juvenile Offender Law, and the Milton Abrahams Clinic. The Lawyering Skills component includes courses focused on the skills that family lawyers use in their practices: Client Interviewing & Legal Counseling (CILC); Legal Interviewing, Negotiating, & Counseling (LINC); Mediation; and Negotiation.