Family law

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

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.

This book is the fifth in the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group series and it concerns the evolving notions and practices of kinship in contemporary Britain and the interrelationship of kinship, law and social policy.

As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old.

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.

The European Convention on Human Rights is one of the most influential human rights documents in existence, in terms of its scope, impact, and jurisdiction.

Because people's contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders.

This book focuses on a central success factor for family businesses: maintaining the decision-making ability over generations while not jeopardizing the business due to family conflict, inefficient governance structures, or lack of identification.

Broken Three Times is a story about child abuse in America.

This book examines jurisdictional differences in the role of the principle of the welfare interests of the child in common and civil law and focuses on differences within these two legal traditions.

The collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and professional identities.

How can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children's empowerment and protection?

Argues that the shared adjudication model regarding the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality.

Making Law for Families is the result of a workshop organized by Mavis Maclean and held between May 26 and June 2,1999, at the international Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Onati, Spain.

The first book to provide a socio-legal perspective on current interrelations between globalization, borders, families and the law.

Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse.

Should grandparents have rights in relation to their grandchildren?

Does a justice system have a welfare function?

Exploring both principles and best practice of the spiritual care of sick children and young people, this remarkable and inspiring book equips the reader to think critically and creatively about how to provide care in hospitals, hospices and other care contexts for ill and disabled children.

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system.

Das Werk ist dem Thema "Aktuelles zur ehegüter- und erbrechtlichen Planung – insbesondere aus der Sicht des Notariats" gewidmet.

A radical revision of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010.

This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.

Die Arbeit untersucht die kollisionsrechtliche Behandlung der cohabitation legale des belgischen Rechts im deutschen Internationalen Privatrecht, wobei auch die verschiedenen Formen partnerschaftlichen Zusammenlebens und ihre sach- und kollisionsrechtliche Einordnung in Europa in den Blick genommen werden.

Advances in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have been revolutionary.

This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions into dialogue.

First published in 1997, this book marks a culmination of a three year research programme focused upon the incidence of domestic violence in Leicester.

A new revised and updated edition of an indispensable classic This updated Second Edition of Investigative Accounting in Divorce provides a solid grounding in every aspect of investigative accounting services in divorce proceedings.

Literature in the child abuse and child protection arena has tended to adopt either a practice or legal perspective.

How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents?

This book examines the prevailing legal discourse surrounding domestic violence law in India.

This innovative book applies contemporary and emergent theories of identity formation to timely questions of identity re/formation and development in immigrant families across diverse ethnicities and age groups.

Concern is growing about children's rights and the curtailment of those rights through the excesses of neoliberal governance.

Explores how China''s divorce courts have generally done less to protect abused women than to empower and enable their abusers.

This title was first published in 2000: The great mobility of people and capital in the world today means that the likelihood of a person acquiring and dying with assets in more than one jurisdiction is probably greater than ever.

This comparative study investigates the place of Hindu divorce in the Indian legal system and considers whether it offers a way out of a matrimonial crisis situation for women.

Die aufgrund gravierender Gesetzesänderungen bereits in kurzer Zeit fällig gewordene Neuauflage bringt das Werk wieder auf den aktuellen Stand.

Hello, my name's Stacey Duguid and I'm a reformed fashion editor.

Each year, a number of youth who migrate alone and clandestinely from China to the United States are apprehended, placed in removal proceedings, and designated as unaccompanied minors.

Are you working with trust assets and interests in the context of matrimonial and family finance disputes?

Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives explores the impact that recent seismic shifts in the legal landscape have had for lesbians and gay men.

Published in 1996, this book presents an innovative method for studying the work of professionals with clients that was applied to an evaluation study of legislation and of lawyers working with clients seeking a divorce.

his book will take you through every aspect of a divorce using clear explanations of the law, and providing checklists, together with examples of the court forms and draft letters.

Law and ethics are two vital aspects of social work - all social workers need to practise according to the law and their codes of ethics and conduct.

This book analyses the key issues affecting same-sex families in Ireland and beyond today: marriage; formalised and non-formalised same-sex relationships outside of marriage; parental rights for same-sex couples with donor-conceived or surrogate-born children; and the protections afforded to same-sex families under European human rights law.