Text, Cases, and Materials Family Law

by Harris-Short, Sonia; Miles, Joanna

• ISBN13: 9780199277162
• ISBN10: 0199277168
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Sonia Harris-Short began her academic career at Durham University and is now a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely in the areas of family law and international human rights and has a particular interest in the relationship between communal interests and the individual rights of family members.
Joanna Miles taught at Christ Church and Lincoln College, Oxford, before becoming Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge where she teaches family and criminal law. She has published in England and New Zealand in several areas, in particular family property and financial provision on relationship breakdown, and is currently on secondment to the Law Commission for England and Wales, working on the Cohabitation project.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Family Law

Adult family relationships in law

Family property and finances during relationships

Domestic violence

Ending relationships: divorce and separation

Financial provision for children

Financial provision between adults on relationship breakdown

Fundamental principles in the law relating to children

Becoming a legal parent and the consequences of legal parenthood

Parental responsibility

Private disputes over children

Child protection: the public law on children

Adoption

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