Family Law category: 810 books
Child Rights and International Discrimination Law
Implementing Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Children´s new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights...
After the Act
Access to Family Justice after LASPO
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
After the Act describes the aftermath of the recent removal under LASPO of public funding from legal services in family matters other than in defined cases such as child protection and domestic abuse. Through analysis of the policy context, interviews with key players, observation of services provided...
Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law
Identities and Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This collection of articles critically examines legal subjectivity and ideas of citizenship inherent in legal thought. The chapters offer a novel perspective on current debates in this area by exploring the connections between public and political issues as they intersect with more intimate sets of...
European Union Non-Discrimination Law
Comparative Perspectives on Multidimensional Equality Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
EU equality law is multidimensional in being based on different rationales and concepts. Consequently, the concept of discrimination has become fragmented, with different instruments envisaging different scopes of protection. This raises questions as to the ability of EU law to address the situation...
Family Justice
The Work of Family Judges in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book is about the delivery of family justice in England and Wales, focusing on the work of the family judiciary in the lower courts. The policy context is moving so rapidly that the authors have gone beyond presenting their empirical findings to offer a broader consideration of the nature and...
The Only Cohabitation Agreement Guide You’ll Ever Need
A Canadian Lawyer Explains All
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
How Does a Cohabitation Agreement Work in Canada?Canadian lawyer Jeffrey Behrendt has taken his years of experience creating and negotiating cohabitation agreements and written a complete guide for Canadian couples thinking about entering into a cohabitation agreement.This brief, easy to read book takes...
American Family
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Richard and Michael, both three years sober, have just decided to celebrate their love by moving in together when Richard—driven by the desire to do the right thing for his ten-year-old-daughter, Brady, whom he has never met—impulsively calls his former father-in-law to connect with her. With...
Growing in the Dark
Adoption Secrecy and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
Generations of adults who were adopted as children have been kept in the dark about their original identities. The law sealing birth records, passed in 1935 in California during the Great Depression, swept adoptions emotional complexities under the rug and made it possible to keep adoption itself...
Breaking Up Without Breaking Down
Preserving your health, your wealth and your family
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
There are many ways couples can end up in court or in adversarial negotiations, but there are just as many ways to avoid ending up that way. Sometimes the issues that cause people to go to court look large, like where the children will live or who will get the house, and sometimes they can look...
Shades of Grey - Domestic and Sexual Violence Against Women
Law Reform and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the ‘hidden gender’ of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women. Adopting an explicitly feminist perspective, it investigates how legal responses to violence...
by Trevor Buck
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
International Child Law examines and discusses the international legal framework and issues relating to children. Analysing both public and private international legal aspects, this cross-disciplinary text promotes an understanding of the ongoing development of child law, children’s rights and the...
by Daniel J. Baum
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Real cases from the Supreme Court dealing with youth issues.
Laws, as they relate to youth and youth issues, can be difficult to understand for those they are intended to serve. In the first book of the Understanding Canadian Law series, author Daniel J. Baum breaks down the Supreme Court of...
by Anne Caldwell, MBA
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Not intended as legal advice, this book offers support for anyone navigating a treacherous child custody case in family court. After years as an executive director of a nonprofit that assisted families who were victims of family court racketeering, the author has written this guide to warn families...
The Formal Requirements of the Celebration of Marriage:
A Comparative Study of Canon Law, Nigeria Statutory Law and Nigeria Customary Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The book is an extract from my doctorate degree thesis dealing with the formal requirements for the celebration of marriage: a comparative study of canon law, Nigerian statutory law, and customary law. It is universally recognized that consent of parties brings about marriage. But for consent to result...