By Sonia Harris-Short and Joanna Miles

Description

* Combines a wide range of cases and materials with engaging commentary and analysis, providing a complete resource for students of family law

* Engages with a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, encouraging readers to reach their own conclusions on legal debates

* Introductions to each chapter provide an outline of the main topics to be explored, enabling students to see, at a glance, the key points raised

* Contains further reading lists and helpful questions to assist self-directed student learning

* Supported by an online resource centre providing web links and updates on legal developments, enabling students to keep abreast of developments post-publication

Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials covers all main areas of family law and provides everything the family law student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive experience in the field of family law, the authors provide a detailed and authoritative exposition of the law illustrated by carefully selected materials drawn from a wide range of sources. Their detailed and scholarly analysis of the law is accompanied by clear, insightful and engaging commentary in which a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives are presented and discussed. To assist student understanding of the topics covered, the thought-provoking commentary is complemented by helpful questions and suggested further reading.

Online Resource Centre

* Updates

* Web links

Readership: Suitable for undergraduate students taking a course in family law.

Contents

1. Introduction to Family Law

2. Adult family relationships in law

3. Family property and finances during relationships

4. Domestic violence

5. Ending relationships: divorce and separation

6. Financial provision for children

7. Financial provision between adults on relationship breakdown

8. Fundamental principles in the law relating to children

9. Becoming a legal parent and the consequences of legal parenthood

10. Parental responsibility

11. Private disputes over children

12. Child protection: the public law on children

13. Adoption

Authors, editors, and contributors

Sonia Harris-Short, Reader in Law, University of Birmingham and

Joanna Miles, Director of Studies, University Lecturer and Fellow in Law, Trinity College, Cambridge

Published Year: 2007 Format: Paper Back ISBN: 978-0-19-927716-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press No of Pages: 1176 Our Price: £ 33.99 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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