Overview

Drawing from a wide range of material and socio-legal methods, this collection brings together original essays, written by internationally renowned scholars, investigating emerging patterns in the shape and form of the legal regulation of domestic relations. Taking as a focus the theme of 'caring and sharing', the collection includes chapters which reflect on the changing contours of what we think of as 'domestic relations'; the impact which legal recognition carries in making visible some relationships rather than others; the potential for normative values carried within patterns of legal recognition and regulation; intersections between private law and public policy; the role of private law in the allocation of responsibility and privilege; the differential impact of seemingly progressive policies on economically vulnerable or socially marginal groupings; tensions between family law models and models carried within other fields of private law; and, unusually, architectures in law and the built environment designed to facilitate broader accounts of domestic relationships. This thoughtful, provocative and wide-ranging collection will be a must for anyone, whatever their discipline background, interested in the insights and potential offered by a fresh engagement with the complexity of domestic relations and the law. Authors: Anne Barlow, Anne Bottomley, Susan Boyd and Cindy Baldassi, Alison Diduck, Susan Scott-Hunt, Nan Seuffert, Carol Smart, Simone Wong and Claire Young.

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Author:   Anne Bottomley ,  Simone Wong ,  Cindy L. Baldassi ,  Anne Barlow
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781841139043

ISBN 10:   1841139041
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   17 September 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and Sharing ANNE BOTTOMLEY AND SIMONE WONG 2 Making Kin: Relationality and Law CAROL SMART Part I Property Division in Couple Relationships 3 Property and Couple Relationships: What Does Community of Property Have to Offer English Law? ANNE BARLOW 4 Caring and Sharing: Interdependency as a Basis for Property Redistribution? SIMONE WONG Part II What Is Fair and to Whom? 5 Relationship Fairness ALISON DIDUCK 6 Taking Spousal Status into Account for Tax Purposes: The Pitfalls and Penalties CLAIRE FL YOUNG Part III Heteronormativity and Marriage Fundamentalism 7 Marriage or Naught? Marriage and Unmarried Cohabitation in Canada SUSAN B BOYD AND CINDY L BALDASSI 8 Same-Sex Immigration: Domestication and Homonormativity NAN SEUFFERT Part IV Pushing at the Contours of Domestic Relationships 9 'They shall be simple in their homes . . .': The Many Dimensions of the Idea and Practices of Co-operative Housing ANNE BOTTOMLEY 10 Intentional Communities and Care-giving: Co-Housing Possibilities SUSAN SCOTT HUNT

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The individual chapters are immensely varied and provide some fascinating insights.Brian SloanChild and Family Law QuarterlyVolume 22, No. 2, 2010

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Anne Bottomley and Simone Wong are Senior Lecturers in Law at the Kent Law School at the University of Kent.

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