Today, there are 53 legal systems within the United States, divided into 50 state systems, one Federal system, one District of Columbia system, and one Puerto Rican system.

U.S. civil law includes a huge list of rights protected by the state. We assist our clients with their civil rights in Small Court.
Trends in the development of civil law in the United States in the modern period include the dynamic development of its elements such as corporate law regulating the status of all legal entities in the country, as well as anti-trust (antitrust) legislation.

Antitrust law is directly related to consumer protection legislation. General consumer protection laws have been enacted at the federal as well as state level, and subsequently supplemented with new specific provisions. These laws affected the general public, who were everyday and mass consumers of goods and services. They enshrined the right to necessary and reliable information about the purchased goods, as well as legislative guarantees of their proper quality.

Matrimonial law occupies a special place among civil law institutions. Historically, this right has been the responsibility of the states; federal law has hardly interfered in matters of family and marital relations.

The legislation of different states has enshrined their different approaches already in the marriage registration procedure itself. In general two main approaches to marriage registration can be distinguished: they are civil and church marriage ceremonies. It is true that in most cases a church marriage requires a prior license from the relevant municipal authorities.

Thus, the source of family law is state law, which has a wide variety of approaches to various aspects of family and inheritance relations.

Historically, inheritance patterns have also varied from state to state. Everywhere, inheritance is recognized not only by law, but also by will. Inheritance patterns tend to vary significantly depending on the size of the inheritance.