The Family, Law & Society: Cases & Materials

by Hale, Brenda; Pearl, David; Cooke, Elizabeth; Monk, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780199204243
• ISBN10: 0199204241
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Family Law & Society; Cases & Materials is an invaluable resource for students. Produced by an esteemed author team it provides a wealth of carefully selected materials offering an overview of the social, economic, and political trends which have come to shape contemporary family life. The materials are linked by the authors through detailed commentary, opening up the complex legal issues for discussion and offering academic and judicial viewpoints. This new edition has been fully revised to include the significant developments in family law and policy since the fifth edition, including the Adoption and Children Act 2002, the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Gender Recognition Act 2004, and landmark cases such as Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane, Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partner), Stack v Dowden, Wilkinson v Kitzinger.

Author Biography

Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, MA (Cantab), FBA
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary since 2004
Previously Lord Justice of Appeal, 1999 to 2004, High Court Judge (Family Division), 1994 to 1999, Law Commissioner, 1984 to 1993, Faculty of Law, University of Manchester, 1966 to 1989
Visiting Professor of Law, King's College London
Chancellor, University of Bristol
David Pearl MA LLB PhD (Cantab)
Circuit Judge since 1994
President, Care Standards Tribunal since 2002
Commissioner, Judicial Appointments Commission since 2006
Honorary Professor University of East Anglia since 1994
Life Fellow, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge since 1989
Bencher, Gray's Inn since 2002
Elizabeth Cooke MA LLM, Solicitor, Professor of Law at the University of Reading
Daniel Monk LLB LLM Solicitor
Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London

Table of Contents

The family and the law

Relationship recognition: marriage and civil partnership

Making ends meet: family resources and state support

Divorce and the dissolution of civil partnership

Financial provision on divorce

Financial provision for separating cohabitants

Dangerous families

Parents, children and family life

Becoming a parent

When parents part

Social services for children and families

The 'permancy principle': who are my family?

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