Family law

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

This vintage book explores the history and ancient traditions in England concerning legal wills.

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.

Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights.

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children.

Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon.

This book documents the journey of the survivors of sexual violence as they navigate the gruelling criminal justice and health care systems and the stigma and hostility in their communities in the aftermath of the incident.

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.

should be welcomed by all those who work in the field of Family Law an 'off the shelf' comprehensive resource the focus throughout is on helping the reader, not only to understand all relevant aspects of mental illness, but also to understand how that knowledge may impact upon any particular court case Its publication is therefore most welcome and I predict that it will soon become a recognisable presence on the bookshelves of many.

Legal aid for family cases in private law, mainly divorce and separation, where the state is not directly involved as it is in public law cases where there are issues of domestic violence or neglect or abuse of children, came to an abrupt end together with help for welfare and immigration cases on April 1 2013 when the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into effect.

Evidence-Informed Interventions for Court-Involved Families provides a critical, research-informed analysis of the core factors to consider when developing child-centered approaches to therapy and other family interventions, both in formal treatment settings and in promoting healthy engagement with the other systems and activities critical to children's daily lives.

Describes the concept of the relational self and its potential significance to the law.

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder.

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.

Providing interdisciplinary and empirically grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe, this work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration.

Abortion remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in contemporary law and bioethics.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples.

A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life.

This book considers whether coercive control (particularly non-physical forms of family violence) should be prohibited by the criminal law.

Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

Der Band enthält die Referate einer im April 2012 in Hamburg veranstalteten Tagung über die Aufgaben des Staates bei der rechtlichen Regelung von Paarbeziehungen.

Die rechtliche Eltern-Kind-Zuordnung befindet sich aktuell im Umbruch und erlangt immer mehr Dimensionen: Der medizinische Fortschritt, die Liberalisierung bestimmter gesellschaftlicher Werte und die stärkere internationale Vernetzung haben zur Folge, dass das Recht neue Familienformen abbilden muss.

This book examines whether more pluralism in family law is normatively desirable and should be affirmatively fostered.

Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956).

Increasing international cooperation in tackling the worldwide problem of child abuse and neglect has helped to raise the profile of this important issue.

Violence Against Children adopts in its title the exhortation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, "e;Making Human Rights Real,"e; which also represents the leitmotif of the book.

This volume provides a series of critical analyses of some of the contemporary debates in relation to the human rights of children, resituating them within visions which informed the text of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

Almost every contested financial case raises issues of enforcement.

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

Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon.

Part of The School of Life's Love series,Affairsdelves into the question of affairs and why they happen so oftenOne in four people will be involved in an affair during their lifetime.

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

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

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice: Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights presents some of the finest essays on social justice, rights and public policy.

In custody battles over the children of separated parents, the prevailing standard of evaluating what is in the "e;best interests of the child"e; has been scrutinized because of the discretionary nature of what is "e;best"e; and because of the bias in favour of the child residing in one "e;primary residence.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it.

Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book investigates the challenges of resettlement in East Africa, where half of those displaced are children.

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

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system.

This co-authored book critically reviews existing literature on school resource officer (SRO) programs and presents a thorough evaluation of an SRO program offered by Peel Regional Police in Ontario, Canada.

What unique challenges face LGBTQ individuals in relationships or who are separating or divorcing, especially now that same-sex couples may marry?

The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment in family law.

This book examines the strength of laws addressing four types of violence against women--rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment--in 196 countries from 2007 to 2010.

Gender, family law in the Middle East and North Africa indicating change and stasis in context of the Arab spring.