· to encourage and support a high level of professional and ethical commitment and expertise among those who practice family law in all its substantive branches;

· to remain sensitive to the changing needs and mores of families and individual family members in our society; and

· to respond, through reasoned efforts directed toward the appropriate branch of government, and bar and/or the public;

· to accomplish understanding of the law as it exists and is applied, or change of that law, where it is needed.