This paper is a condensed account of a four-year research outcome concerning the reform of family law education in Taiwan universities. The research findings are based not only on literature reviews but also on quantitative and qualitative analyses of organised field surveys including questionnaires, in-depth intcrviews, expert consultation meetings and focus group interviews. After a brief introduction to the purposes and execution of the four-year research project, this paper follows to summarize the accumulated results of each year, based on which the author proposes her own ideal pathology and a model teaching programme for Taiwan university family law courses. It is argued that the teaching in family law courses, though based on Book IV of the Civil Code entitled Relatives, shall go beyond the Code to trace upward to the Constitution for its jurisprudential origin. The family law shall be aimed to protect an individual's right to the family and family life. Thus instead of the traditional university lectures on “Law of the Relatives" starting from definitions of relatives in law, the author's ideal is to commence the course with the birth of a person into a nuclear family within which the best interests of the child is the first and paramount legal consideration. The course then moves into the stage of marriage between two persons in which sexual equality is the guiding principle of legislation. In both parts, proper connections of a child or a spouse to relatives outside of the nuclear family will be made in topics including guardianship, financial support, and the family council for dispute resolution.