Family Law category: 810 books
Post-Nup Solution
How to Save a Marriage in Crisis—Or End It Fairly
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Having trouble in your marriage? This book is for you. Tom Gardiner, a Chicago lawyer, explains how post-nuptial agreements can address marital problems effectively. Unlike counseling that often is no more than a temporary fix, this book talks about agreements that will result in long-term change....
Children and the European Union
Rights, Welfare and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This book examines in detail the status of children in the EU. Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives, including the sociology of childhood and human rights discourse, it offers a critical analysis of the legal and policy framework underpinning EU children's rights across a range of areas,...
by William John Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Dads On The Air, often shortened to DOTA, is a community radio program which began in western Sydney in August of 2000 with a small group of extremely disgruntled separated men who had no experience of radio and no resources. The author of Chaos at the Crossroads: The Birth of Dads On The Air, William...
by Mandy Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
This book aims to examine legal responses to domestic violence in a holistic way. In England and Wales, as in other jurisdictions, much attention has been paid to the criminal justice response to domestic violence. The response of the civil justice system has not been ignored, but has been somewhat...
The Supportive State
Families, Government, and America's Political Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Broad agreement exists among politicians and policymakers that the family is a critical institution of American life. Yet the role that the state should play with respect to family ties among citizens remains deeply contested. This controversy over the state's role undergirds a broad range of public...
Prenups for Lovers
A Romantic Guide to Prenuptial Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
This ring-to-altar guide is a valentine to anyone who’s dating, contemplating marriage, living with someone, or engaged. In Prenups for Lovers, family-law attorney Arlene G. Dubin describes how prenuptial agreements stimulate communication and compromise, enhancing the prospects for a happy marriage....
Breaking Up
A Self-Help Guide to the Courts and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
The break-up of a relationship is one of the hardest things you can go through. And during the confusion that accompanies it, you're supposed to make sensible decisions about the fair division of money, and possibly the future of your children.
Breaking Up gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the...
Confronting Mental Health Evidence
A Practical PLAN to Examine Reliability and Experts in Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Confronting Mental Health Evidence—Second Edition describes and applies the four-step PLANModel to help lawyers organize, critique, and use psychological materials and testimony when examining experts and framing legal arguments.
This Second Edition refreshes previous topics, including understanding...
by J. Ellis Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Everything in life starts with a simple question.
If you or someone you loved was facing the prospect of divorce, how would you help them find the best divorce attorney to meet their needs?
This is the number one question I am asked on an almost daily basis.
Why you ask?
Because...
by Robert Dingwall
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This classic study of law and social work in action (by Robert Dingwall, John Eekelaar and Topsy Murray) is based on the most extensive investigation of child abuse and neglect ever carried out in Great Britain. The authors followed the course of numerous cases from the first detection of ill-treatment...
The Constitutional Parent
Rights, Responsibilities, and the Enfranchisement of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In this bold and timely work, law professor Jeffrey Shulman argues that the United States Constitution does not protect a fundamental right to parent. Based on a rigorous reconsideration of the historical record, Shulman challenges the notion, held by academics and the general public alike, that parental...
Divorce in Idaho
The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Are You Considering a Divorce?
If so, you need all the accurate, objective information you can get to help you make the right decisions for your future. But gathering essential facts about property settlement, division of debt, child custody and support, and so many other pressing subjects...
by Lorraine Fox Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Child care law and policy issues generate very strong emotions and some crucial questions concerning the role of the state. For instance, under what circumstances should the state be able to intervene and use the force of the law to protect children? Do children have similar rights to adults? Such...
Adoption Law and Human Rights
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In recent decades, there have been many changes to adoption law and practice, such as a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase in the number consigned to public care, and an abrupt decrease in those made available on an intercountry basis. Additionally, human rights...