Law : Domestic Relations

This new edition contains 50 exam-type questions and answers incorporating recent decisions and statute law on a whole range of family law topics. Each chapter contains an overview or summary on the law concerning a particular topic, which is then explored through the use of problems and questions. more...

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The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have swung 'too far' in favour of mothers. Armed with such claims, fathers' rights activists have set out to achieve a range of legal reforms, most notably in the areas of child support law and contact and residence rights following separation. This book presents an attempt to understand these developments. Bringing together leading international commentators it provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women's movement, and the relationship between fathers' rights movements and the societies that frame them. In addition to Collier and Sheldon, contributors include: Susan B Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jocelyn Crowley (Rutgers University, USA), Maria Eriksson (Goteborg University, Sweden), Keith Pringle (Aalborg University, Denmark), Helen Rhoades (Melbourne University, Australia), and Carol Smart (Manchester University, UK). more...

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The book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law and examines specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective. It is broad in scope and looks at issues of current legal and political preoccupation. more...

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Follows the format of the Family Law Act 1996 by taking each section (or schedule) individually and cross-referencing it against existing law. Where relevant, the text refers to the Law Commission's recommendations in their 1900 report and to the Hansard reports. more...

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An international text drawing from research and case material. The authors review the use of psychology in Law and identify a powerful collusion between the two fields which works actively against the interests of women. more...

Price: $26.95