Family law

This court practice guide enables you to avoid the most common pitfalls encountered across the spectrum of family proceedings, thereby speeding up litigation and avoiding unnecessary work and wasted costs orders.

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing body of work on the history of British and European juvenile delinquency.

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

Families in market economies have long been confronted by the demands of participating in paid work and providing care.

This volume documents the Western historical arguments for monogamy over polygamy, from antiquity to the present.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

While in the past family life was characterised as a "e;haven from the harsh realities of life"e;, it is now recognised as a site of vulnerabilities and a place where care work can go unacknowledged and be a source of social and economic hardship.

Unaccompanied minor migrants are underage migrants, who for various reasons leave their country and are separated from their parents or legal/customary guardians.

This book considers how a phenomenon as complex as coercive control can be criminalised.

Recent migratory flows to Europe have brought about considerable changes in many countries.

First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women's oppression.

In this book, Patrick Parkinson argues that the conflicts in family law derive from the breakdown of the model on which divorce reform was predicated.

With many couples separating each year, the question of how to determine the financial and property consequences of such separation has always been a problem area within family law.

This book provides an alternative perspective on an issue fraught with difficulty the enforcement of prenuptial agreements.

A comprehensive social history of families and family law in twentieth-century AmericaInside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States.

For people on the autism spectrum dating is so often an elusive art form, requiring the very skills--in communication, and in social perception--that don't come naturally to them.

Does a justice system have a welfare function?

Collaborative practice is a new method of dispute resolution, used mainly in family law matters.

This book introduces bioengineers and students who must generate and/or report scientific data to the ethical challenges they will face in preserving the integrity of their data.

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

How do courts reconcile protecting family life with immigration control in human rights cases?

From infancy onward, children are in danger from many sources, including parental and sibling abuse, drug abuse and mental illness in the home, parental neglect, and poverty.

Over several hundred years, the juvenile justice system has evolved from one in which a child offender was prosecuted under the same guidelines used for adults to the current system in which society has recognized the unique status of juveniles within the criminal justice framework.

Der Inhalt:Das Skript behandelt die für das Erste Staatsexamen in der Pflichtfachprüfung relevanten Bereiche des Familienrechts sowie des Erbrechts: im Teil "Familienrecht" werden die Wirkungen der Ehe im Allgemeinen, eheliches Güterrecht, Scheidungsgründe und Unterhalt des geschiedenen Ehegatten, allgemeine Vorschriften über Verwandtschaft, Abstammung, Unterhaltspflicht unter Verwandten und Ehegatten und die elterliche Sorge dargestellt.

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.

This book tackles a complex area of law, social policy and social work, providing a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical, practical and legal boundaries of State power following safeguarding and child protection referrals in England.

Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families.

This book discusses a number of important themes in comparative law: legal metaphors and methodology, the movements of legal ideas and institutions and the mixity they produce, and marriage, an area of law in which culture - or clashes of legal and public cultures - may be particularly evident.

Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in 'the body' in contemporary societies?

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

In this volume, Brownson sheds new light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari'a courts from the British Mandate period to the present.

Profiling national and international social inclusion agendas, Charity Law and Social Inclusion examines the fit between the charity law framework and the needs of the socially marginalized in some leading common law nations: the US, England and Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

This handbook examines the development and use of manuals to guide and support systemic couples and family therapies.

The gap between what the law and legal processes deliver for victims of domestic abuse and what they actually need has, in some instances, arguably widened.

Uses the concept of the best interests of the child to advocate for legal recognition of LGBT+ parenting.

Published in 1998.

First published in 2005.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

How far does a client's or a child's confidentiality extend on family breakdown?

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state.

As the only practitioner title with detailed practical guidance and advice in this area, this is a comprehensive work written by a private client solicitor who has 30 years' experience of practice, and is a regular speaker at conferences on the subject.

This book examines the practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as it stands today in the context of matrimonial disputes and for providing gender justice for women undergoing matrimonial litigation.

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the inception of the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of the POCSO Act and the best practices from other developed jurisdictions for handling cases and victims of child abuse.