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Family Law: Secondary Authority

Locating Books & Treatises

General books and treatises relating to family law are located on the 1st Floor in the KF 501-KF 549 call number area. Books and treatises specific to your state jurisdiction are located on the 3rd Floor. You can use InfoHawk, the Library's catalog, to search for specific titles (see tutorial below).

Key treatises on family law topics include:

Searching InfoHawk+

You can use InfoHawk+, the University of Iowa's discovery tool, to search for relevant materials. For help using InfoHawk+ or locating items in the Law Library or other University of Iowa Libraries, try any of these resources:

Family Law Journals and Articles

Locating General Journal Articles

Law journal articles may be found using an index to legal periodical literature. Three of the most widely used law journal indexes are the Index to Legal Periodicals, the Legal Scholarship Network, and LegalTrac. Each database provides multiple fields to search, including title, author, subject and keyword.

Once you have identified potentially relevant articles, use the print journal, Hein Online, JSTOR or another full-text database to retrieve the article(s). HeinOnline and JSTOR provide access to legal and non-legal journal literature, respectively.  Both provide .PDF versions of articles, as well as search functionality.  They are particularly useful for retrieving items with specific citations.