Full Description
Family Law offers an engaging and debate-driven guide to the subject, with each chapter crafted by a team of highly experienced teachers writing on their specialist subject under the expert editorship of Ruth Lamont.
Each chapter is a superbly clear guide to the topic, structured around the key debates central to that topic, which are then explored in detail throughout the chapter. Students are thereby introduced to an enlightening range of perspectives on the key issues in family law today, allowing them to formulate their own opinions and arguments.
The social, economic, and political backdrop to each topic is also extensively discusssed to ensure that students' understanding is grounded in this essential context.
Family Law is a critical and modern guide to this dynamic subject.
Contents
1: Ruth Lamont: Family life and the law
2: Andrew Hayward: Relationships between adults: marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation
3: Edwina Higgins & Kathryn Newton: Seeking a divorce
4: Polly Morgan: Property division on divorce
5: Warren Barr: Property division on the breakdown of non-marital relationships
6: Lara Walker: Child support
7: Anna Carline & Roxanna Dehaghani: Domestic violence and abuse
8: Kirsty Horsey: Legal parenthood and parental responsibility
9: Annika Newnham: Private child law
10: Penelope Russell: Public law protection
11: Julie Doughty: Adoption and special guardianship
12: Helen Stalford, Seamus Byrne, & Nazia Yaqub: Human rights, children's rights, and the family
13: Ruth Lamont: International family law
14: Patrick Nicholls: Family law in practice
