Family law

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.

On Thursday 11 January 1883, the new Royal Courts of Justice opened its doors for business.

When domestic abuse and children are involved, divorce and custody can be the epitome of high-stakes conflict and frustration and all too frequently protective parents lose custody of their child to a named abuser.

This book brings together insights and perspectives from leading medical, legal, and business professionals, as well as academics and other members of civil society, on the threats and opportunities to life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings.

Are you concerned about falling foul of the pitfalls across the spectrum of modern family proceedings?

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.

How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents?

Adult Protection and the Law in Scotland provides a guide to the general principles of legislation in relation to adult protection.

In Understanding and Managing Parental Alienation: A Guide to Assessment and Intervention, Janet Haines, Mandy Matthewson and Marcus Turnbull offer a comprehensive analysis of contemporary understanding of parental alienation.

Personal status laws remain a highly politicized area of debate in the Middle East, as the arena in which the contentious issues of women's rights, religion and minority groups meet.

Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse.

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL.

Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities.

Building a family is filled with many questions, especially when you choose to build yours through adoption.

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together the work of scholars of several different generations and several different national contexts.

High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals.

Parents Killing Children: Crossing the Invisible Line explores hidden forms of violence within the family.

Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

This book grew out of a major European Union (EU) funded project on the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance Regulation of 2009.

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed.

Psychology, Emotion and Intuition in Work Relationships: The Head, Heart and Gut Professional highlights the increasing importance of human relations in professional life.

Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "e;responsible procreation"e; and child welfare.

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.

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

There may be no other social problem so common, yet so little understood by the general public, as child abuse and neglect.

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.

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

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.

Now in its completely updated second edition, this accessible guide provides essential information about how the law can be used to promote good practice and policy development for disabled children and young people.

Juvenile justice has been and remains a topical issue at national and international levels.

In 1958 Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, two young lovers from Caroline County, Virginia, got married.

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

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

This book brings a modern critical approach to bear on the broad range of subjects that used to constitute 'family law.

Die Neuauflage:Das Betreuungsrecht gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung: Nach der Erhebung des Bundesjustizamtes stehen mehr als 1,3 Millionen Menschen unter rechtlicher Betreuung; das entspricht mehr als einem Prozent unserer Bevölkerung.

Dealing with the interface between the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) movement and the phenomenon of domestic violence against women, this book examines the phenomenon of divorce disputes involving violence through the prism of 'alternative justice' and the dispute resolution mechanisms offered by the ADR movement.

This book contrasts and compares the different application of the law relating to the welfare interests and rights of children in France and Germany.

A critical and comparative analysis of the past and future imperatives shaping child and family law around the world.

How do lawyers think about and make the important decisions that constitute the day-to-day practice of law?

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

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

Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "e;responsible procreation"e; and child welfare.

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

This work is an exploratory examination of the experiences, motivations, and coping mechanisms of women who are involved in intimate relationships with registered sexual offenders.