Full Description
An unrivalled collection, placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips.
Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. The authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law, illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources.
Key features
- Combines a wide range of cases and materials with insightful explanation, commentary and analysis, creating a complete resource for students of family law
- Features authoritative author commentary which engages with a range of theoretical and critical perspectives
- Accompanying online resources provide regular updates on recent developments in family law, further reading suggestions, questions, and additional legal coverage
- Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support
New to this edition
- Developments including the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, and the advent of mixed-sex civil partnership
- Consideration of the Law Commission's proposed reform of weddings law, particularly in relation to non-qualifying ceremonies
- A revised analysis of the Gillick competence and children's autonomy rights in light of recent case law
- Updated case law, including HM Attorney General v Akhter and Khan [2020], Guest v Guest [2022], Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust [2021], and Re H-W (Care Proceedings) [2022]
Digital formats and resources
The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
- The online resources that support the book include regular updates on the law, further reading suggestions, and questions for students to consider.
Contents
1: Introduction to family law
2: Family relationships between adults
3: Ending relationships: divorce, dissolution, and separation
4: Protection from domestic abuse
5: Financial provision for children
6: Financial remedies on divorce
7: Property and finances when non-formalized relationships end
8: Fundamental principles in the law relating to children
9: Becoming a legal parent and the consequences of legal parenthood
10: Parental responsibility
11: Private disputes over children
12: Child protection
13: Adoption
