Family Law category: 810 books
Family Law, Gender and the State
Text, Cases and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The third edition of this work on family law, comprising text, cases and materials, provides not only an explication of legal principle but also explores, primarily from a feminist perspective, some of the assumptions about, and constructions of, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture that...
by Dr Rob George
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
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. The book's first section looks at themes in family law, addressing challenges facing the family justice system, rights and responsibilities,...
Family Law, Sex and Society
A Comparative Study of Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Comparative in both approach and framework, Family Law, Sex and Society provides a critical exposition of key areas in family law, exploring their evolution and development within their historical, cultural, political and legal context.
Cross-referencing to English law throughout, this comparative...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This volume brings together new essays in law and philosophy on a broad range of topics in children's and family law. It is the first volume to bring together essays by legal scholars and philosophers for an integrated, critical analysis of key issues in this area, marking the 'coming of age' of a...
The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life. Individually and together, these are vast topics. American family law is ever-changing and affects every facet of our lives. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Family...
by The Right Honourable Lady Justice Jill Black DBE, Jane Bridge, Tina Bond
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Family Law practice has undergone a period of rapid and significant change with the removal of legal aid funding and the establishment of the single Family Court in particular represent major adjustment for those working in the field. A Practical Approach to Family Law provides a clear picture of...
The Jewish Family
Between Family Law and Contract Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Traditional Jewish family law has persevered for hundreds of years and rules covering marriage, the raising of children, and divorce are well established; yet pressures from modern society are causing long held views to be re-examined. The Jewish Family: Between Family Law and Contract Law examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last sixty years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law. This book provides global perspectives on the policy challenges facing family law and policy round the world.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and Family Law addresses the implications of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has,...
The Devry Smith Frank LLP Guide to the Basics of Ontario Family Law, 3rd Edition
A Short and Easy-to-Understand Guide to Separation, Divorce, Child and Family Law Issues, the Family Court Process and the Alternatives to Court
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Are you separating? Do you have no idea what to expect? What does getting married really mean? The Guide to the Basics of Ontario Family Law is for everyone who: is separating or divorcing, needs to change an order or separation agreement, is involved with a children's aid society, is getting married...
Courting Change
Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Winner of the 2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
A lesbian couple rears a child together and, after the biological mother dies, the surviving partner loses custody to the child’s estranged biological father. Four days later, in a different court,...
Family Life and the Law
Under One Roof
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book brings a modern critical approach to bear on the broad range of subjects that used to constitute 'family law.' A key consideration in this collection is the way in which law itself is premised upon, constructing a particular image of the family. By bringing different areas of law together,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides a stimulating, carefully planned introduction to the key issues and debates within family law from some of the leading authorities within their field. It is designed both as a self standing book focusing on the key issues in the subject, and as a supplement to more detailed textbooks...