Family Law category: 810 books
Human Rights in Children's Literature
Imagination and the Narrative of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others? In this book, authors Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higinbotham explore this question through both human rights law and children's literature. Both international and domestic law affirm that children have rights,...
Vulnerable Children and the Law
International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.
This book takes an international perspective on child...
ReValuing Care in Theory, Law and Policy
Cycles and Connections
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Care is central to life, and yet is all too often undervalued, taken for granted, and hidden from view. This collection of fourteen substantive and highly innovative essays, along with its insightful introduction, seeks to explore the different dimensions of care that shape social, legal and political...
Relocation Disputes
Law and Practice in England and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Relocation cases are disputes between separated parents which arise when one parent proposes to move to a new geographic location with their child and the other parent objects to the proposal. Relocation disputes are widely recognised as being amongst the most difficult cases facing family courts,...
Keeping It Civil
The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Provocative true cases that explore the intersection of our most intimate relationships and the law—and offer a window into how we define a family today.
A woman seeking a divorce has no idea of the family finances—her husband doled out money only after she gave him requisition slips for...
by Terry McNiff
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Why do so many people make bad divorce decisions?
Top 5 Reasons Divorcing People Choose Poorly:
They get angry.
They don't know they have choices.
They get bad advice.
They get confused.
They don't see the consequences.
How do divorcing people feel when they make bad divorce decisions?
Angry,...
by Lacey Sloan, Nora Gustavsson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People helps you look past the stereotypical picture of violence against sexual minorities--the public physical assaults on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth by hypermasculine male thugs--and directs you toward the many...
Le ragioni degli altri
mediazione e famiglia tra conflitto e dialogo. Una prospettiva comparatistica ed interdisciplinare
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Il volume raccoglie diversi contributi, molti dei quali presentati in occasione di un ciclo biennale di incontri comparatistici, svoltisi presso l’Università degli Studi di Firenze ed organizzati dalla curatrice, con l’intento di proporre una visione critica ed interdisciplinare del tema della...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
This book deals with a subject that has recently been the focus of debate and law reform in many jurisdictions: how much scope should spouses have to conclude agreements concerning their financial affairs - and under what circumstances should such agreements be binding and enforceable? These marital...
Swarm Before Me
The Tragic Case of Becker v Pettkus
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
On November 5, 1986, Rosa Becker, the estranged common law partner of a successful beekeeper in Eastern Ontario, shot herself in the head and died. That fatal shot reverberated throughout the Canadian legal system when her suicide note revealed she blamed the legal system for forcing her to do it. Despite...
Born in Hope
The Early Years of the Family Court in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Family Law Act of 1975 and the establishment of the Family Court of Australia in the following year aimed to revolutionize the settlement of marital disputes. But the court quickly became the focus of hostility, and many saw it as a failed experiment. Drawing on interviews with judges, lawyers,...
by Frances Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Well-selected and authoritative, Palgrave Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.
Power and Legitimacy
Law, Culture, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
An interdisciplinary analysis of the ways in which symbolic acts create social norms, Power and Legitimacy is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship on law and literature. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Anne Quéma demonstrates the effect...
by Shelley Day Sclater
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Several jurisdictions have attempted to render divorce more harmonious by abolishing matrimonial 'fault' and facilitating the resolution of divorce disputes by mediation. In Britain, these provisions appear in the Family Law Act 1996. The book presents a challenge to the underlying assumptions that...