Family law

This collection provides a snapshot of big ideas in family law reform.

This thematic volume in the series Studies in Private International Law Asia outlines the general choice of law and recognition rules relating to family matters of 15 Asian jurisdictions: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.

In recent years the notion of parenting and parenthood have increasingly come under examination from the media and professionals and, in particular, government and politicians.

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

Child protection made simple: the plain-speaking guide for all those concerned with the protection of children.

Religion is a prominent legal force despite the premise constructed and promoted by Western constitutionalism that it must be separated from the State in democracies.

There is growing enthusiasm for the use of mediation to seek to resolve cases arising under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the Convention).

This book approaches law as a process embedded in transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, norms and values.

Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography.

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

Understanding Animal Abuse and How to Intervene with Children and Young People offers a positive, compassion-based and trauma-informed approach to understanding and intervening in animal abuse.

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

Wie viele Eltern kann ein Kind haben?

The Kit b-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah ' Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world.

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system.

Explores how China''s divorce courts have generally done less to protect abused women than to empower and enable their abusers.

This book presents a socio-legal examination of national and devolved-level developments in social protection in the UK, through the eyes of politicians and officials at the heart of this process.

The numbers of women undergoing Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) treatments have risen steadily, yet they remain largely outside the scope of equality and employment law protection while undergoing treatment.

As the world becomes smaller, family law is becoming truly global, giving rise to more and more questions for private international law.

Analyses marriage law''s development since 1836—its complexity, failures to respond to societal change, and constraints on different beliefs.

At a time when the future of the welfare state is the object of heated debate in many European countries, this edited collection explores the relationship between this institution and social rights.

EU equality law is multidimensional in being based on different rationales and concepts.

The 60 or so nations that subscribe to the common law tradition had for centuries broadly accepted the same legal definitions of what constitutes a charity.

Currently, there are over 400,000 youth living in foster care in the United States, with over 20,000 aging out of the child welfare system each year.

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This important edited collection is the culmination of research undertaken by the Children's Rights Judgments Project.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to chart the evolution and interdependence of family life and family law, portray current trends in family life, explain the pressing policy challenges these trends have produced, and analyze the changes in family law that are essential to meeting these challenges.

Family justice requires not only a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course, but also a justice system which can deliver legal information, advice and support at times of change of status or family stress, together with mechanisms for negotiation, dispute management and resolution, with adjudication as the last resort.

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

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 volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions into dialogue.

Lebzeitige Kapitalzuwendungen an Minderjährige auf Konten beschäftigen immer wieder die Gerichte.

Collating the important case law from across public children law, this title provides a comprehensive and in-depth compendium of cases entirely devoted to this field of family law.

This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased.

Wenn sich zwei Menschen entscheiden, ihr Leben gemeinsam zu verbringen, dann ist das meistens eine emotionale und keine rationale Entscheidung.

Japan has faced widespread scrutiny for failing to properly address international parental child abduction involving its citizens.

This book is inspired by a statement released by the World Health Organization directed at preventing and eliminating disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility-based childbirth.

Ideas and Debates in Family Law is written for family law students, at undergraduate level and beyond, who are looking for less orthodox ideas about family law.

This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth.

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

Law and ethics are two vital aspects of social work - all social workers need to practise according to the law and their codes of ethics and conduct.

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

This book outlines the constitutional argument in favor of plural marriage in the United States.

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 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.

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

This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier's outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics.

Specifically designed for use in court, Hershman & McFarlane Children Act Handbook 2022/23 is an indispensable single volume of key children proceedings' legislation and related guidance.