Family Law

NOTE EDITORE

Family Law offers an engaging and debate-driven guide to the subject, with each chapter crafted by a team of highly experienced teachers writing on their specialist subject under the expert editorship of Ruth Lamont. Each chapter is a superbly clear guide to the topic, structured around the key debates central to that topic, which are then explored in detail throughout the chapter. Students are thereby introduced to an enlightening range of perspectives on the key issues in family law today, allowing them to formulate their own opinions and arguments. The social, economic, and political backdrop to each topic is also extensively discusssed to ensure that students' understanding is grounded in this essential context. Family Law is a critical and modern guide to this dynamic subject.

SOMMARIO

1 - Family life and the law2 - Relationships between adults: marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation3 - Seeking a divorce4 - Property division on divorce5 - Property division on the breakdown of non-marital relationships6 - Child support7 - Domestic violence and abuse8 - Legal parenthood and parental responsibility9 - Private child law10 - Public law protection11 - Adoption and special guardianship12 - Human rights, children's rights, and the family13 - International family law14 - Family law in practice

AUTORE

Ruth Lamont is a Senior Lecturer in Family and Child Law at the University of Manchester. She teaches Family Law, and her research has focused on the regulation of the family, children and the management of relationships across international borders in a modern and a historical context.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780192893536
• Dimensioni: 246 x 33.0 x 189 mm Ø 1200 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 712