The Family, Law & Society: Cases & Materials. ISBN 9780199204243 from Practitioner Books

The Family Law & Society; Cases & Materials is an invaluable resource for students. Produced by an esteemed author team it provides a wealth of carefully selected materials offering an overview of the social, economic, and political trends which have come to shape contemporary family life. The materials are linked by the authors through detailed commentary, opening up the complex legal issues for discussion and offering academic and judicial viewpoints. This new edition has been developed extensively to more effectively meet the needs of the undergraduate student, and as such the authors have created a casebook which combines the expertise of previous editions with a strong awareness of today's family law student.

1. The family and the law ; 2. Relationship recognition: marriage and civil partnership ; 3. Making ends meet: family resources and state support ; 4. Divorce and the dissolution of civil partnership ; 5. Financial provision on divorce ; 6. Financial provision for separating cohabitants ; 7. Dangerous families ; 8. Parents, children and family life ; 9. Becoming a parent ; 10. When parents part ; 11. Social services for children and families ; 12. The 'permancy principle': who are my family?

Author(s)	By Brenda Hale (Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, MA (Cantab), FBA; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Visiting Professor of Law, King's College London; Chancellor, University of Bristol), David Pearl (Circuit Judge; President Care Standards Tribunal; Commissioner, Judicial Appointments Commission; Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia; Life Fellow, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge; Bencher, Gray's Inn), Elizabeth Cooke (Professor of Law, University of Reading), Daniel Monk (Senior Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London).
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN	9780199204243
Format	Paperback / softback
Pages	700
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	4 Sep 2008
Availability	Available

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