Product Description: Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last sixty years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law. This book provides global perspectives on the policy challenges facing family law and policy round the world...read more

Product Description: Do lawyers make matters worse, or do they provide information, advice and support which can help to prevent disputes arising or manage them when they do? Do mediators enable parties to communicate and reach agreements tailor made to their needs? Or working outside the legal framework, do they find it difficult to protect weaker parties and access expert advice? What happens when lawyers become mediators? This book will describe the structure of service provision and the day to day work of lawyers, mediators, and lawyer mediators, drawing on empirical work carried out 2013-15 immediately after the recent changes to the management of divorce and separation within the family justice system...read more

Product Description: Now available in paperback, this book explores what response the law has or should have to different family practices that arise from cultural and religious beliefs. The issue has become increasingly debated as Western countries have become more culturally diverse...read more

Product Description: How should our most intimate personal relationships be governed in a liberal society? Should the state encourage a particular model of family life, or support individuals in their pursuit of personal happiness? To what extent do people have the right to shape the lives of their offspring? This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members...read more

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Product Description: A set of essays describing changes in family law in various jurisdictions throughout the world.

Product Description: What kinds of obligations do parents have towards their children as family life becomes more complex? Many children pass through a number of different households, living with one or both parents, step-parents and step-siblings. The controversy surrounding the Child Support Act indicates that social norms do not yet sit easily with legal regulations...read more

Product Description: This monograph addresses state intervention and family life with reference to the protection of children. Topics covered include the co-ordination of intervention, and the balance between children's rights and the liberties of adults.

Product Description: Family law is one of the most popular and important areas of the modern legal syllabus, combining a high level of social theory with substantive law on matters as diverse as the rights of children, surrogate parenthood, adoption, domestic violence, and the financial consequences of divorce...read more

Product Description: The rights and obligations of parenthood are central to most people's lives. Yet their form and substance are caught up in the great demographic, social and economic changes of the late twentieth century. In this book, specialists from 22 countries examine fundamental issues confronting parenthood: these include social and biological conceptions of parenthood; the legal and moral obligations of parenthood; the legal and scientific establishment of parentage; rights to parenthood, including inter-country adoption; the effects on parent--child relationships of family change; the role of the state in family life; the position of minorities; and children's rights...read more

Product Description: This book describes and analyses official ideologies of marriage and divorce in England through an examination of established law, policy documents, and judicial practice. It places the latest proposals for divorce reform within an historical perspective, provides a critical evaluation of the basis on which financial arrangements are made upon divorce, and explores the weight allocated to the rights and interests of children by the law...read more

Product Description: Children Act 1989 introduced the most radical changes to child care law for a generation. Eekelaar and Dingwall provide a concise, practical guide to the legislation for all professionals practising in this area.

Product Description: This collection of essays examines the many aspects of mediation as a feature of the divorce system in Great Britain today, comparing it with models in other parts of the world. Written by an international team of experts, the essays cover the British experience, the role of attorneys and solicitors, the probation service, courts, conciliation agreements, and alternative dispute resolution, as well as the American system and the Japanese family court...read more

Product Description: The most heavily litigated, and recently the most hotly debated area of family law is that dealing with alimony. This book first places the debate in the context of the economic consequences of divorce, and then proceeds with a thorough, critical analysis of the policy of the law of post-divorce support...read more

Product Description: A practical, straightforward guide to the legal issues that arise in child protection work.