Family law

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, FinalistWhile car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion Karen Thompson, initiating a nearly decade-long struggle over the guardianship of Kowalski.

In November 1998, the Hawaii and Alaska electorates voted to amend their state constitutions so that same-sex marriages would not have to be recognized.

This work is an exploratory examination of the experiences, motivations, and coping mechanisms of women who are involved in intimate relationships with registered sexual offenders.

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This book considers the case for modernising partnership rights in EC family reunification law.

Silenced Angels: The Medical, Legal and Social Aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome delves into the realms of child abuse that has never been explored before in such detail.

Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary.

This book brings the knowledge gained from the Teen And Police Service Academy (TAPS), which has been implemented internationally to create partnerships with at-risk teens and police, proactively addressing some of the most pressing conditions in their communities.

Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last 60 years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law.

This book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures.

As the radical reforms contained in the Enterprise Act 2002 have come fully on-stream, Personal Insolvency Law has become a major focus of attention.

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

In der medizinischen Praxis kommt der Urteilsfähigkeit oder Urteilsunfähigkeit grosse Bedeutung zu, da diese gemäss Erwachsenenschutzrecht entscheidend dafür ist, ob eine Patientin oder ein Patient selbst über medizinische Massnahmen entscheidet oder eine Stellvertretung nötig ist.

This book demonstrates how a focus on children's rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis.

Why are Americans so bad at marriage?

Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting.

The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted.

Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility.

This book presents papers from an International Symposium on Contact Disputes and Allegations of Domestic Violence: Identifying Best Practices, held in London in May 2017.

A well-established, clear and comprehensive book on Scots family and child law that will be of practical use to students and practitioners.

Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their multiplicative effects on violent offending and victimization.

This collection is anchored in an African conception of children's rights and the law, and reflects contemporary discourses taking place in the region of the children's rights sphere.

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide.

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

Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations.

Since the therapeutic value of umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells was first recognised in the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of both public and private UCB banks worldwide.

In Courthouse Democracy and Minority Rights: Same-Sex Marriage in the States, Robert J.

Angesichts der derzeitigen Bevölkerungsentwicklung gewinnt die Frage, wie unterhaltsverpflichtete Eltern und Kinder im Einkommensteuerrecht entlastet werden zunehmend an Bedeutung.

Japan has faced widespread scrutiny for failing to properly address international parental child abduction involving its citizens.

Annotated to indicate amendments or repeals so that key legal information is quickly accessible and clearly outlined, the 7th edition includes coverage of:- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2020 Council Regulation (EU) 2019/111- Mediation Act 2017- Domestic Violence Act 2018- Family Law (Divorce) Act 2019- Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Act 2021- Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2021- Childcare Support Act 2018- Family Relationships Act 2015The authors have expertly selected the family law statutes to which busy practitioners need to refer on a regular basis, as well as EU regulations and the Rules of Court.

This collection discusses how official legal systems do and should respond to the reality of a plurality of family types and origins within their jurisdictions.

World-acclaimed sexologist Jaiya has worked with thousands of clients around the world, transforming their relationships and their lives.

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

Living with a chronic illness can have a significant psychological impact on a child and his or her family, and it is essential that this aspect of their care is not overlooked.

This book shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.

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.

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together the work of scholars of several different generations and several different national contexts.

This book takes a comprehensive, analytic approach to understanding Juvenile Risk and Needs Assessment (JRNA), covering elements relevant to how the practice affects youths' cases and the juvenile justice system.

La Ley 8/2021, de 2 de junio, por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica, es una exigencia de la Convención Internacional de New York sobre los derechos de las personas con discapacidad de 13 de diciembre de 2006, y ha supuesto un profundo cambio en la práctica jurídica diaria.

In Children's Rights Under the Law, Professor Samuel M.

Feminist Perspectives on Child Law is a collection of interdisciplinary socio-legal essays which explore the complex relationship between childhood,gender and the law.