Family Law category: 810 books
Family Violence and Police Response
Learning From Research, Policy and Practice in European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Police response to incidents of intimate partner violence can be critical. This volume investigates the elements in the institutional, legal and organizational context that are relevant for police response to incidents in the realm of the private sphere and whether there exists a relation with the...
The Lure of Hope
On the Transnational Surrogacy Trail from Australia to India
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Lure of Hope portrays a snap shot of the rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in India. By chance, the author’s fieldwork began around the same time NSW legislation in Australia extended its ban on commercial surrogacy to include overseas arrangements. Not long after returning from fieldwork...
by J. Thomas Oldham
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2019
“A singlevolume text that could replace most of the others.... Provides an invaluable education for new and experienced lawyers alike.” —Family AdvocateDivorce, Separation and the Distribution of Property has, as its primary focus, the difference between those states that allow divorce courts...
Divorce and Money
Everything You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Walk Away From Divorce with Financial Security
Family lawyer Gayle Rosenwald Smith has designed this thoroughly researched, practical, and easy-to-read guide to help the reader through difficult, emotional, and often overwhelming divorce processes. She comprehensively explains the financial...
by Nancy E. Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them.
As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book,...
Marriage Markets
How Inequality is Remaking the American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and...
Adoption Answer Book
Your Compete Guide to a Successful Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Building a family is filled with many questions, especially when you choose to build yours through adoption. Finding answers that really work for you is key to finding the success you have been looking for. The Adoption Answer Book explores all the options available to you and gives you the confidence...
by Jane Fortin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Following the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998, awareness has increased that we live in a rights-based culture and that children constitute an important group of rights holders. Now in its third edition, Children's Rights and the Developing Law explores the way developing law and policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
A fascinating exploration of how the law--as viewed and decided by the courts--often embodies fear and prejudice against homosexuality, and thereby, becomes the instrument for discrimination. This valuable book covers a wide range of subjects, illustrating the extent to which the lives of gay persons...
Grounding Security
Family, Insurance and the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security. The idea of security includes emotional and financial components. These interconnect so that such common concepts as 'trust' in someone and 'care taking' include both ideas of emotional and financial...
Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State
Israel's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of one’s religious inclinations. All Muslims must...
Through the Pained-Glass Window of Twitter
The Trauma, Sorrow and Destruction of Parental Alienation
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This is a story of one person's journey into and through Parental Alienation Syndrome and the experience of trauma, sorrow and destruction that comes with the syndrome. As a devoted husband and father of 32 years, it came suddenly and unexpectedly, from those dearly loved, who became the alienator...
Random Families
Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families form meaningful connections that blossom into...
by Brian Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Every day, large numbers of altruistic individuals, in the absence of any legal duty, provide substantial and essential services for elderly and disabled people. In doing so, many such informal carers suffer financial and other disadvantages. This book considers the scope for a "private law" approach...