Full Description
Covering all the major legislation, Scottish Family Law is designed for new students of the subject. It gives you a framework for understanding how family law operates and will help you to prepare for your exams. Each chapter includes lists of essential facts and cases to illustrate how the rules described are applied in practice. It takes full account of the substantial statutory developments in the field since the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006; covers two major Acts: the Children' Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 and the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014; and includes important new legislation such as the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.
Contents
Preface; Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; 1. Legal Personality; 2. Creating the Parent-Child Relationship; 3. Bringing Up Children; 4. Court Orders Regulating the Upbringing of Children; 5. State Intervention in the Upbringing of Children; 6. Marriage and Civil Partnership; 7. Unregistered Couples; 8. Deregistering Relationships by Divorce or Dissolution; 9. Deregistering Relationships by Annulment; 10. Financial Provision on Divorce, Dissolution and Annulment; Index.
