Most automobile accidents are tort cases. So called slip and fall cases are tort cases. Nearly all personal injury cases are tort cases of some sort. Libel cases are tort cases. Products liability and medical malpractice cases are tort cases. When you hear a lawyer advertise herself as handling personal injury cases, that means she deals in tort law.

• Where does the word tort come from?
• What is a tort?
• Can stepparents adopt their spouse’s biological children?
• Does a biological father have the right to notification that his child may be placed for adoption by the child’s mother?
• What age restrictions are imposed on prospective adoptive parents?
• What expenses do adoptive parents pay to the birth mother?
• Can prospective adoptive parents advertise that they wish to adopt a child?
• Can adoption agencies consider the race of the adoptive parents or children when making decisions?
• What is a foreign adoption?
• What is the court or judge’s role in the adoption process?
• What information does an adoption agency consider when determining whether to place a child with prospective adoptive parents?
• Can birth mothers withdraw consent to an adoption?
• Who must consent to an adoption?
• What methods of adoptions are there?
• What is adoption?
• If you think you are the father of a child, but you are not married and the mother refuses to let you see the baby, is there anything you can do?
• If you are a pregnant and unmarried woman, and the father refuses to acknowledge paternity, what can you do?
• Can courts modify child support obligations?
• What happens if a person refuses to pay child support?
• How does a court determine the amount of child support?