Family law

Lawyers' Costs and Fees: Fees and Fixed Costs in Family Proceedings forms part of Bloomsbury Professional's Lawyers' Costs and Fees Series focusing on fees and fixed costs in family proceedings.

As the number of couples choosing to live together (and not to marry) is on the rise, it is essential that access to what their legal rights and obligations are is readily available.

Why is the law failing to protect pregnant workers and parents from detrimental treatment in the workplace?

This timely collection brings together philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should make decisions about the fate of a child suffering from a serious illness.

Exploring the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration, this book examines the right to family life in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the interplay between family life, citizenship, and free movement; it analyzes the combined impact of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights on the concept of the family protected by the law in light of recent case law.

In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South.

Providing interdisciplinary and empirically grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe, this work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration.

Understanding Family Law is a clear and concise book for students of family law.

From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for implementing rights.

Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of responsibility in family life, law and practice.

In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

This important edited collection is the culmination of research undertaken by the Children's Rights Judgments Project.

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years.

This book critically confronts perceptions that social media has become a 'wasteland' for young people.

This volume brings together leading research articles in to the theory, research findings and applications of modern dispute resolution.

Die Durchsetzung eines Zugewinnausgleichsanspruchs scheitert in der Praxis oft an fehlenden Beweismöglichkeiten.

Online Risk to Children brings together the most up-to-date theory, policy, and best practices for online child protection and abuse prevention.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others?

Familienrechtliche Fälle mit Auslandsbezug treten in der Praxis immer häufiger auf und gewinnen an Komplexität.

This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons.

This book identifies the definition of a child within the law, the rights of children, and discusses the extent to which primarily English law gives adequate recognition to and protection of these rights.

This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow's canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars-including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens-in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection, critical analysis and new directions in Chodorowian scholarship.

A practical resource for dealing with family matters upon death, this first-of-its-kind publication from the American Bar Association and AARP - the nation's leading associations in the law and the advancement of issues that matter most to people 50+ and their families - helps answer the myriad of questions surrounding what needs to be done following a loved one's passing.

The role of the law in settling family disputes has been a matter of particular debate over the past twenty-five years.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation.

Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law.

Modern family life exhibits a huge variety of new forms.

Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in the physical world.

There is growing enthusiasm for the use of mediation to seek to resolve cases arising under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the Convention).

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th century.

Children's rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law.

Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography.

Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful medical treatment.

The articles in this volume shed light on some of the major tensions in the field of children's rights (such as the ways in which children's best interests and respect for their autonomy can be reconciled), challenges (such as how the CRC can be made a reality in the lives of children in the face of ignorance, apathy or outright opposition) and critiques (whether children's rights are a Western imposition or a successful global consensus).

This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

This title was first published in 2002.

Collating the important case law from across public children law, this title provides a comprehensive and in-depth compendium of cases entirely devoted to this field of family law.

The law relating to children does not seem to stand still long enough to have its photograph taken So says Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, before endorsing the one book he says has captured its image.

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status - has frequently been neglected.

What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths?

How does the European Convention on Human Rights apply to people who suffer mental ill-health or are alleged to be affected by such a condition?

This book places youth violence within a Routine Activity Ecological Framework.