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'[a] fascinating volume that provides an interesting perspective on where family law has come from, and where it is going.' Claire Simmonds in Cambridge Law Journal (2012) 734 'It would be unsurprising if its chapters, distinctly readable and pithy as well as learned, are still being read and cited by family lawyers 50 years from now.' Brian Sloan in Child and Family Law Quarterly (2012) 496

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"Rebecca Probert teaches family law at the University of Warwick. She has written on all aspects of modern family law in several books. Her main research interests lie in the field of the history of marriage, divorce, cohabitation and bigamy, with recent books including"" Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment"" (CUP, 2009), ""The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: From Fornicators to Family"", 1600-2010 (CUP, 2012) and ""Marriage Law for Genealogists"" (Takeaway, 2012). Chris Barton is Emeritus Professor of Family Law, an Emeritus Member of the Society of Legal Scholars and a Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association. He is External Examiner at some 6 universities, and he is also part time adviser to a Shadow Minister for Justice with responsibility for family law. With a foreword by Nicholas Wilson and contributions by Andrew Bainham, Chris Barton, Elizabeth Cooke, Ruth Deech, Gillian Douglas, John Eekelaar, Stephen Gilmore, Brenda Hale, Sonia Harris-Short, Joanna Harwood, Jonathan Herring, Sue Jenkinson, Sanford N. Katz, Penny Lewis, Nigel Lowe, Mavis Maclean, Judith Masson, Joanna Miles, Walter Pintens, Christine Piper, Rebecca Probert, Neil Robinson, Simon Rowbotham, and Jens M. Scherpe."

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