Family law

Offers a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing family law globally, and explores how different countries have tackled them.

Cases of sport-related child sexual abuse have received increasing news coverage in recent years.

This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the intersection of disability, care and family law.

This book addresses the international criminal law of children, which constitutes one of the major branches of public international criminal law.

Disability and Impairment introduces professionals working with families to the everyday issues faced by disabled people of all ages in family life.

A leading expert in Indian family law and one of India's most successful and respected divorce lawyers, Malavika Rajkotia has seen the drama of marriages coming undone at close quartersthe effects of infidelity, jealousy, domestic violence, property disputes and the end of love and compatibility.

This book discusses legal services clinics and various other access-to-justice initiatives that are established to protect and represent the rights and interests of children and youth in several countries across the globe.

This book aims to examine legal responses to domestic violence in a holistic way.

This book challenges conventional boundaries of family law providing a solid foundation and edge to students'' understanding of the topic.

This set of 7 volumes, originally published between 1984 and 1998, provides illuminating and practical information on Domestic Abuse.

The national lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in India resulted in the loss of work and displacement of thousands of urban migrant workers.

Child Protection in the Church investigates whether, amidst publicised promises of change from church institutions and the introduction of "e;safe church"e; policies and procedures, reform is actually occurring within Christian churches towards safeguarding, using a case study of the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania, Australia.

The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history.

Lori Chamber's fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921.

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.

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.

Esta monografía interpreta la regulación de la promesa de matrimonio o los denominados, antiguamente, esponsales y las implicaciones que comporta para los promitentes.

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

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 book provides a comparative account of the abolition of concubinage in East Asia, offering a new perspective and revised analysis of the factors leading to - and the debates surrounding  - the introduction of a new Marriage Reform Ordinance in Hong Kong in 1971.

This Briefcase is made up of a very wide selection of cases chosen so as to enunciate and illustrate some of the fundamental principles applied by the courts to contemporary problems of family law.

Battering States explores the most personal part of people's lives as they intersect with a uniquely complex state system.

This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications.

This book examines in detail the status of children in the EU.

The phenomena of global ageing and intensive population movements overlap.

This book examines the challenges of the implementation of Islamic law in Malaysia.

'Caring and the Law' considers the law's response to caring.

Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected.

'In my work I am ruthless about one thing.

Legal Issues in Special Education provides teachers and school administrators with a clearly written, well-organized, and understandable guide from the perspective of the practitioner without formal legal training.

This important new text is the product of several years of research of the family law of fifteen Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions.

Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes.

The use of sports-based activity programmes as a means of tackling crime has been explored in a number of countries worldwide, particularly in relation to the prevention of re-offending in the ten to eighteen age bracket.

Children make up half of the world's refugees and over 40 per cent of the world's asylum seekers.

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Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life.

This book provides a key to understanding why there was an increase in extra-marital fertility in Japan from the 1990s to the 2010s, particularly between 1995 and 2015, and the factors which contribute to the multistratification of unmarried mothers, the number of which has increased ensuingly.

Transparency describes openness, accessibility and public understanding of the family justice system.

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This book examines the use of violence by children and young people in family settings and proposes specialised and age-appropriate responses to these children and young people It interrogates the adequacy and effectiveness of current service and justice system responses, including analysis of police, court and specialist service responses.

This Briefcase is made up of a very wide selection of cases chosen so as to enunciate and illustrate some of the fundamental principles applied by the courts to contemporary problems of family law.

International Child Law examines the international laws for children at both a global and a regional level.

Today there are no common international rules as to which state's law shall be applied when a married couple have connections with more than one state e.

First published in 1985, Women-in-Law is a collection of essays examining the complex interactions of law, sexuality, and the family.

During the past decade, a remarkable transference of responsibility to Indigenous children's organisation has taken place in many parts of Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand.

In the State of Israel, the unique family law derives from ancient Jewish law, halakhic traditions, and an extensive legal tradition spanning many centuries and geographic locations.