Family law: marriage, separation and divorce

A road map for late-life divorceDivorce can be emotionally devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for people who divorce later in life and can face complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning.

Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact is a critical, empirically based review of parental alienation that integrates the best research evidence with clinical insight from interviews with leading scholars and practitioners.

Using a wide range of primary sources, this book provides a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage law and practice.

The case for marriage equality and monogamy in a democratic societyThe institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture.

"e;At its core, the freedom-to-marry movement is about the same thing every civil rights struggle has been about: taking seriously our country's promise to be a nation its citizens can make better, its promise to be a place where people don't have to give up their differences or hide them in order to be treated equally.

Long recognized as the authoritative guide for clinicians working with divorcing families, this book presents crucial concepts, strategies, and intervention techniques.

Implementation of Islamic family law varies widely across North Africa and the Middle East, here Dörthe Engelcke explores the reasons for this.

Almost 50% of American marriages end in divorce, so it stands to reason that most people have experienced the effects of divorce in some way.

Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws.

Today there are no common international rules as to which state's law shall be applied when a married couple have connections with more than one state e.

This book provides an analysis of the increasing impact on the law in general and divorce law in particular of post-liberalism,which replaces choice with self-discovery.

The extraordinary recent increase in rates of cohabitation and non-marital birth presents a major challenge to traditional family law principles, and the legal rules governing cohabitation are thus among the most hotly contested areas of family law and policy today.

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Now completely revised and significantly expanded, The Military Divorce Handbook continues to be the go-to resource for understanding the issues involved and effectively representing military personnel and their spouses in domestic situations--divorce, separation, custody, support, and division of property.

This book proposes a new ''parent-partner'' legal status emphasizing obligations of parents to each other and to their children.

About half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce, and most of these divorces result in unnecessary collateral damage.

Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer.

A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life.

This book provides tools to inform debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about the institution of marriage.

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Policy-makers and the public are increasingly attentive to the role of shari'a in the everyday lives of Western Muslims, with negative associations and public fears growing among their non-Muslim neighbors in the United States and Canada.

Since the first edition of Pauline Teslers groundbreaking book, Collaborative Law, there has been an explosion of interest in this dispute resolution method.

In custody battles over the children of separated parents, the prevailing standard of evaluating what is in the "e;best interests of the child"e; has been scrutinized because of the discretionary nature of what is "e;best"e; and because of the bias in favour of the child residing in one "e;primary residence.

This volume brings together new essays in law and philosophy on a broad range of topics in children's and family law.

This book outlines the constitutional argument in favor of plural marriage in the United States.

This book takes a critical approach to the US Supreme Court ruling in Loving v.

Today there are no common international rules as to which state's law shall be applied when a married couple have connections with more than one state e.

This book argues that insufficient recognition of new families is a legal problem that needs fixing in light of recent evolutions in family patterns and normative conceptions of 'family'.

Relocation cases are disputes between separated parents which arise when one parent proposes to move to a new geographic location with their child and the other parent objects to the proposal.

This book examines the present state of family law in America.

This volume brings together new essays in law and philosophy on a broad range of topics in children's and family law.

Are you concerned about falling foul of the pitfalls across the spectrum of modern family proceedings?

Marital rape stands at the intersection of the socio-legal issues arising from both domestic violence and sexual assault.

Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost.

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

This book provides tools to inform debate and to assist policy makers in resolving questions about the institution of marriage.

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For many years family law was viewed as a study of the regulation of clearly defined relationships of husband and wife and parent and child.

This book challenges conventional boundaries of family law providing a solid foundation and edge to students'' understanding of the topic.

Intimate details about the personal lives of medieval people are frustratingly rare.

Avizandum Statutes are designed specifically to provide undergraduates at Scottish universities with legislation and, where appropriate, other core materials in a readily accessible format.

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system.

Implementation of Islamic family law varies widely across North Africa and the Middle East, here Dörthe Engelcke explores the reasons for this.

Traumatic Divorce and Separation integrates the conflicting mental health perspectives concerning trauma theory and the study of divorce, in what the author has termed "e;traumatic divorce"e; -- that is, divorce complicated by the high-risk factors of domestic violence, mental illness, and/or substance abuse.

This book argues that insufficient recognition of new families is a legal problem that needs fixing in light of recent evolutions in family patterns and normative conceptions of 'family'.

This book takes a critical approach to the US Supreme Court ruling in Loving v.

Written for a broad readership, Divorcing Marriage sheds light on three central questions: How did Canada come to the point of proposing a redefinition of marriage?

This book examines whether more pluralism in family law is normatively desirable and should be affirmatively fostered.