Details
- Students are able to follow the text with ease due to the clear design and numbered paragraphs for quick reference
- Details the law, and offers a critique of controversial issues facing family lawyers
- Contains chapter summaries to highlight key topics
- Features self-test questions, encouraging students to reflect on what they have read
- Includes short extracts and quotations offering insights from a range of perspectives
New to this edition
- An increased number of self-test questions are included to encourage further reflection and to stimulate critical thinking
- Completely revised to reflect recent key developments in this fast-paced area of law, such as the Cohabitation Bill, law on media involvement in court and access to family courts, the Human Embryology and Fertilisation Act 2008, and reforms to the Child Support Agency
- Includes further coverage on ancillary relief, domestic violence, private and public child law, and issues surrounding surrogacy
- Now with an accompanying Online Resource Centre, featuring web-links and updates
The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all levels. Written by leading academics, and renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explain the intellectual challenges of each area of the law.
Family Law enables students to develop a clear understanding of the law itself, and an insight into the tensions that surround family life in all its incarnations. The complex personal relations between adults, children and the State, are all fully explored, highlighting the controversial issues which face family lawyers today.
Clearly written and presented, Family Law incorporates chapter summaries and self-test questions to highlight key topics for discussion and reflection, and selected reading lists for those wishing to conduct further research.
Online Resource Centre
Updates
Web links
Readership: Undergraduate students opting to study family law
1: Introduction to family law and its changing dimensions2: State intervention in personal relationships3: Nullity and its consequences4: Acquisition and protection of rights in the family home5: Domestic violence6: Ending relationships7: Financial consequences of relationships8: Death and its consequences9: Parents and family: rights and responsibilities10: From clean break to open adoption11: Adolescent rights: autonomy and participation12: Children's welfare and private disputes13: In the child's best interests: the jurisdiction of wardship14: Child protection: public law procedure15: Protecting children from 'significant harm': interpreting the law16: Financial provision;
Mary Welstead, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Buckingham, and Susan Edwards, Professor of Law, Dean of Law, University of Buckingham
Mary Welstead is Visiting Professor of Law, founder Director of the Centre for Multi-Cultural Studies in Law and the Family at the University of Buckingham, and Visiting Fellow at the Child Advocacy Program Harvard University.
Susan Edwards is Professor of Law, Dean of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Multi-Cultural Studies in Law and the Family, at the University of Buckingham. Barrister and Door Tenant, Clarendon Chambers, London and MEWI.
""This 3rd edition is a clear and concise, yet comprehensive exposition of family law. It reviews and explains new approaches to existing law. It raises new issues of, amongst others, forced marriages, the developments in the law of significant harm to children, the continuing impact of human rights and the enforceability of nuptial agreements. It is extremely readable and, although ideal for students studying family law for examinations, it would also be a useful addition to the library of any serious family lawyer." - Rt Hon Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE"
