Family law

This book addresses South Asian Muslim women's lived experiences, whilst questioning dominant concepts of agency.

Are you concerned about promoting transparency whilst protecting the privacy of vulnerable clients?

This book provides a comprehensive, student-friendly and critical introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, offering a balanced evaluation of its development, rationale, nature and evidence base.

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.

This book examines the implications of exploring spirituality through the lens of human relationships.

Combining feminist legal theory with international human rights concepts, this book examines the presence, participation and treatment of children in a variety of contexts.

Offers expert comparative analysis of the child''s best interests within the context of Article 3 of the UNCRC.

This book is about the delivery of family justice in England and Wales, focusing on the work of the family judiciary in the lower courts.

Das Kindes- und Erwachsenenschutzrecht ist seit über acht Jahren in Kraft und hat erste Teilrevisionen erfahren.

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 April 2011.

Kindschaftssachen mit muslimischen Migrantenfamilien nehmen in der Praxis deutscher Familiengerichte eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle ein.

This book examines how local cultures affect the interpretation of international human rights law.

Based on official records and reports, relevant secondary sources, and observations of members of the Convention's implementary organ, The Convention on the Rights of the Child describes and evaluates the first international human rights treaty to deal specifically with the rights and freedoms of the child.

This book takes a holistic approach by providing insight into the behavior and nature of sex offenders within the church.

This book takes a holistic approach by providing insight into the behavior and nature of sex offenders within the church.

This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings.

The book explores, from a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective, the relationship between fundamental rights and private law in Europe, a debate usually referred to as Drittwirkung or 'horizontal effect of fundamental rights'.

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations.

This book investigates the policy implications, discursive ethos and practical realities of plea-based case dispositions in the criminal justice system of four Chinese-speaking jurisdictions, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

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.

A discussion of family law from an economic perspective, considering the importance of ''incentives''.

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.

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.

This book examines the rights of the child using the global framework of the United Nations International Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989.

Thirty years after the adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, this book provides diverse perspectives from countries and regions across the globe on its implementation, critique and potential for reform.

This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh.

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote.

Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children.

Unter welchen Voraussetzungen die Zuordnung rechtlicher Elternschaft erfolgt, ist die zentrale Frage, mit der sich die Regelungen des Abstammungsrechts beschäftigen.

The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims.

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.

Although same-sex marriage is legal nationwide, there is no federal recognition for domestic partners or civil union registrants, and many couples have messy and unresolved agreements and/or registrations that need to be cleaned up.

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

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.

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.

This title was first published in 2002: After outlining the origins and development of family mediation on a world-wide basis, this book assesses family mediation services in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, within the context of the empirical and theoretical debates surrounding the practice.

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

High-Conflict Parenting Post-Separation: The Making and Breaking of Family Ties describes an innovative approach for families where children are caught up in their parents' acrimonious relationship - before, during and after formal legal proceedings have been initiated and concluded.

Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying.

In many US courts and internationally, family law cases constitute almost half of the trial caseload.

Marriage law in England and Wales is a historical relic which reflects a bygone age.

This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girl as the subject-position and voice of legal critique.

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 first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of family law in the European Union.

This book traces the evolution of the welfare interests of the child principle over the centuries in England & Wales to provide a record of the key milestones in its development.