Overview

Each individual experiences obligations arising from personal relationships. These are often hard to fulfil and give rise to tension between the demands of various relationships,between meeting current or future needs, but also between private norms and the demands of a public set of rules. The international contributors to this volume consider the relationship between family law and family values in the way law is framed, the way we are developing the legal context for new kinds of relationships such as cross-household parenting, same-sex partner relationships, and the obligations of adults to elders, and closes with a plea to rethink family law in terms of the functions we want it to perform. Contributors include Masha Antokolskaia, Benoit Bastard, John Eekelaar, Lisa Glennon, Jacek Kurczewski, Jane Lewis, Carol Smart, Velina Todorova and Jean van Houtte.

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Author:   Mavis Maclean (University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Volume:   12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781841135472

ISBN 10:   184113547
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 June 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction MAVIS MACLEAN Part I Framing Family Law 1. Personal Obligations JOHN EEKELAAR 2. Basic Values and Family Law in Recent Judgments of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany WOLFGANG VOEGELI 3. Family Values, Friendship Values: Opposition or Continuity? MALGORZATA FUSZARA and JACEK KURCZEWSKI 4. The Changing Context for the Obligation to Care and to Earn JANE LEWIS Part II Regulating New Forms of Relationship Between Adults and Children 5. Changing Ways, New Technologies and the Devaluation of the Genetic Connection to Children JULIE SHAPIRO 6. Can Co-Parenting be Enforced? Family Law Reform and Family Life in France LAURA CARDIA VONÈCHE and BENOIT BASTARD 7. Supporting Conflicted Post-Divorce Parenting KATRIN MUELLER-JOHNSON 8. Litigation in the Shadow of Mediation: Supporting Children in Sweden JOHANNA SCHIRATZKI 9. Changing Commitments: A Study of Close Kin after Divorce in England CAROL SMART Part III Regulating New Forms of Relationships Between Adults 10. Targeting the Exclusionary Impact of Family Law LISA GLENNON 11. Registered Partnerships for Same-Sex Couples in Switzerland: Constructing a New Model of Family Relationships MICHELLE COTTIER 12. Same-Sex Relationships in Italy VALERIA MAZZOTTA 13. Cohabitation: The Ideological Debate in Spain TERESA PICONTÓ NOVALES Part IV. A Regulating the Relationships Between Adult Children and Elderly Parents 14. Maintenance of the Aged by their Adult Children: an Adequate Legal Institution? JEAN VAN HOUTTE and JEF BREDA 15. Obligations of Grown-Up Children to their Elderly Parents: Bulgarian Legislation and Practice VELINA TODOROVA Part IV. B Harmonisation of Law and Diversity: the Fit Between Family Law and Family Values 16. Ethnicity and Expectations Concerning Family Law and Family Values in Bulgaria STEFKA NAOUMOVA 17. Family Values and the Harmonisation of Family Law MASHA ANTOKOLSKAIA 18. Family Law and Family Values in Portugal MARIA JOÃO ROMÃO CARREIRO VAZ TOMÉ

Reviews

...this book is a valuable contribution to sociolegal research on family law and a welcome addition to the Onati series. Bryna Bogoch Law & Society Review Vol. 40, Issue 4, Page 974, Dec. 06 ...the book is cross-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional. This provides many positives, including a rich diversity, fertile ground for comparative studies...an extremely informative and thought-provoking collection for the family law academic. The Law Teacher, Vol 40, No 2 Roger Kay 2006

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Mavis Maclean is co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Oxford University.

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