Adult Relationships in Family Law

Adult Relationships in Family Law outlines the legal rules relating to the family life of adults in Ireland. It examines the formation and dissolution of relationships, as well as the property consequences of relationship breakdown for married and unmarried couples. In addition, it analyses the State’s response to domestic abuse, including the remedies available to victims.

This book also explores private international family law, from the recognition of foreign marriages to the recognition and enforcement of maintenance orders.

Focusing on the substantive law, rather than practice and procedure, Adult Relationships in Family Law will be invaluable to both academics and practitioners. Its outlines and explores the legal regulation of intimate relationships in unparalleled depth and breadth. It does so by relying not only on the extraordinary proliferation of Irish judgments concerning family matters, but also the most important global scholarship charting how the current rules came to be as well as how they are working.

Adult Relationships in Family Law provides significant coverage of international legal issues affecting families, including an analysis of relevant EU, ECHR, and Hague Conference developments.