Family law

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.

Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

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

Now in its third edition, this work has established itself as a key point of reference on English private law for lawyers in the UK and throughout the world.

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.

Protect yourself and your loved one with sound legal planningLaws affecting LGBT couples have changed dramatically in the last decade--today, same-sex couples can get married in any state in the U.

This multidisciplinary volume offers an essential, comprehensive study of perspectives on the scope and application of the best interests of the child and focuses mainly on its application in relation to child custody.

The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux.

A guidebook to the joys and anxieties of romantic love - and the key to finding a long term partner.

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.

Explores values, ideas and structures promoting justice for children and families, under the headings of fairness, protection and autonomy.

This book integrates research on the causes, responses and protective strategies for vicarious trauma that are recognised in a range of human services and argues their relevance to the legal profession.

Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to do so.

This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate.

Child Abuse and Neglect examines the latest research on this important topic, discussing what it entails, how to recognize it, and how to report it.

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

This book is about those who represent themselves as Litigants in Person in the family justice system.

Published in 1999.

This one-stop resource explores the leading child welfare issues facing the USA today, as well as the laws, programs, and policy prescriptions that have been implemented or suggested to address pressing child welfare problems.

The NHS came into existence in an atmosphere of conflict centred on the strong ideological commitment of the Post-war Labour Government and the opposition of the Conservative Party of that time to the idea of a universally available and centrally planned medical care service.

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association.

This edited collection gathers together the principal findings of the three-year RELIGARE project, which dealt with the question of religious and philosophical diversity in European law.

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.

Child migration and child movement cases are now more frequent and increasingly complex.

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.

This book explores the emerging engagement of EU law with care and carers.

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade.

In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different balances that can be made in weighing up the rights and interests of the child, the parent's rights and responsibilities and the role of medical professionals and the courts.

Family Law Arbitration is a guide to arbitration in family matters both financial and in respect of children.

First comparative study of major special needs financial planning mechanisms, namely guardianship, enduring/lasting powers of attorney, and special needs trusts.

This volume provides an article-by-article commentary on the individual provisions of the European Succession Regulation.

Addressing key topics in child custody evaluation, this book provides essential knowledge for practitioners who want to meet the highest standards for both scientific validity and legal admissibility.

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

Did you know that once a week an adopted child is advertised to be given away on Internet?

Co-written by a leading tax expert and a family lawyer, this book provides answers to the common problems encountered in financial remedy cases in a way that assists professionals from each discipline.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Family Law is all about, Beginning Family Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

Can you hear the child's voice?

The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family.

This book explores, through a children's rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities.

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

Cultural and religious identity and family law are inter-related in a number of ways and raise various complex issues.

Decisional privacy gives individuals the freedom to act and make decisions about how they live their lives, without unjustifiable interference from other individuals or the state.

Die Arbeit untersucht anhand des Verfahrensverlaufs die Frage, ob mit der Neuregelung der einstweiligen Anordnung in Familiensachen durch §§ 49 ff.

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.