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OverviewFamily 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. Online Resource Centre * Updates * Web links Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sonia Harris-Short , Joanna MilesPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 18.90cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 1.682kg ISBN: 9780199277162ISBN 10: 0199277168 Pages: 1176 Publication Date: 09 August 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction to Family Law; 2. Adult family relationships in law; 3. Family property and finances during relationships; 4. Domestic violence; 5. Ending relationships: divorce and separation; 6. Financial provision for children; 7. Financial provision between adults on relationship breakdown; 8. Fundamental principles in the law relating to children; 9. Becoming a legal parent and the consequences of legal parenthood; 10. Parental responsibility; 11. Private disputes over children; 12. Child protection: the public law on children; 13. AdoptionReviewsAuthor InformationSonia 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |