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Book SynopsisAn unrivalled collection, placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips. Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. The authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law, illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources.Key features- Combines a wide range of cases and materials with insightful explanation, commentary and analysis, creating a complete resource for students of family law- Features authoritative author commentary which engages with a range of theoretical and critical perspectives- Accompanying online resources provide regular updates on recent developments in family law, further reading suggestions, questions, and additional legal coverage- Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning supportNew to this edition- Developments including the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, Divorce, Dissolution and SeparTrade ReviewThe authors provide an expert narrative weaving together up-to-date cases and materials... It is no surprise that this book remains a favourite for students learning about family law in England and Wales. * Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow *A fantastic core text offering a thorough explanation and exploration of the essential areas covered in most family law courses. * Professor Thérèse Callus, Professor of Law, University of Reading *An invaluable resource for students who want to delve in-depth into family law * Rachel Heah, Lecturer, Lancaster University *Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials encourages students to look beyond the mere black letter of the law and consider the effects that these legal provisions have on families in society. * Dr Philip Bremner, Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London *Table of Contents1: Introduction to family law 2: Family relationships between adults 3: Ending relationships: divorce, dissolution, and separation 4: Protection from domestic abuse 5: Financial provision for children 6: Financial remedies on divorce 7: Property and finances when non-formalized relationships end 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 13: Adoption

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Book SynopsisThis is the second edition of Principles of Equity and Trusts , the concise new textbook from Alastair Hudson the author of the definitive classic, Equity and Trusts. Through clear and careful analysis, the author explains what the law is, its foundational principles, and its social and economic effect. By beginning with the core principles on which this field is based, even the most complex academic debates concerning express, resulting and constructive trusts, the family home, charities law and other equitable doctrines become comprehensible and interesting. This book offers a fresh, lively and often humorous account of Equity and Trusts.Through easy-to-follow worked examples and analysis of the case law, Alastair helps you to answer problem questions and to prepare coursework. The author shows how the law affects real people in real situations. Each chapter begins with a clear and concise introduction to the core principles. It contains numbered headings forTable of ContentsPart 1: Fundamentals; 1. The Nature of Equity; 2. The Nature of Trusts; Part 2: The Creation of Express Trusts; 3. The Three Certainties; 4. The Beneficiary Principle; 5. The Constitution of Trusts; 6. Secret Trusts; 7. Essay: The Paradox in Express Trusts; Part 3: The Role of the Trustees; 8. The Duties of Trustees; 9. The Investment of Trusts; 10. The Management of Trusts; Part 4: Trusts Implied by Law; 11. Resulting Trusts; 12. Constructive Trusts; 13. Proprietary estoppel; 14. Essay: Fiduciaries; Part 5: Trusts of Land and of the Home; 15. Trusts of Homes; 16. Trusts of Land; 17. Essay: A Politics of Trusts Law; Part 6: Breach of Trust and Tracing; 18. Breach of Trust; 19. Strangers: dishonest assistance and unconscionable receipt; 20. Tracing; Part 7: Commercial Uses of Trusts; 21. Commercial and international trusts law; 22. Quistclose Trusts; Part 8: Charities; 23. Charities; Part 9: Equitable Remedies; 24. Injunctions; Part 10: Academic Themes in Equity & Trusts; 25. Essay: Restitution of unjust enrichment; 26. Essay: The concept of conscience in equity; 27. Essay: Modern equity

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Book SynopsisA single source guide to the different types of agreements reached with clients prior to marriage, civil partnership, cohabitation and during family breakdown.

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Book SynopsisUnsurpassed in authority, reliability and accuracy; Blackstone''s Statutes, trusted by students for over 30 years.Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone''s Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With a rock-solid reputation for accuracy, reliability and authority, they remain first-choice for students and lecturers, providing a careful selection of up-to-date legislation for exams and course use.- Clear and easy-to-use, helping you find what you need instantly- Edited by experts and covering all the key legislation needed for family law courses, so you can use alongside your textbook to ensure you approach your assessments with confidence- Unannotated legislation - perfect for exam use- Also available as an e-book with functionality and navigation featuresTrade ReviewA must-have quick and easy reference point, with everything you need to access in one place. * Sarah Willis, Senior Lecturer, University of Northampton *These are the industry standard, containing a one-stop source for students. They cover all bases. * Dr Lucy Barnes, Associate Professor in Law, University of East Anglia *Blackstone's Statutes are a very reliable series. Up-to-date legislation, with a good match for teaching needs. Students appreciate the clear layout and easy reference materials. Ideal for exam use. * Renu Barton-Hanson, Associate Professor in Law, Middlesex University *The e-book is useful to support student's learning throughout the semester and for online exams. * Dr Vera Pavlou, Lecturer, University of Glasgow *

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Book SynopsisConcentrate Q&A Family Law guides you through how to structure a successful answer to a legal problem. Whether you are preparing for a seminar, completing assessed work, or in exam conditions, each guide shows you how to break down each question, take your learning further, and score extra marks.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition '100% would recommend. Makes you feel like you will pass with flying colours' * Elysia Marie Vaughan, University of Hertfordshire *'I would not hesitate to recommend this book to a friend' * Blessing Denhere, Coventry University *'I would strongly recommend Q&A guides. They have vastly improved my structuring of exam answers and helped me identify key components of a high quality answer' * Hayden Roach, Bournemouth University *

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Book SynopsisOver the past 40 years, considerable progress has been made in lowering rates of domestic violence in our communities. This progress has been uneven, however, due to continuing misconceptions about the causes and dynamics of domestic violence, which include an exaggerated focus on males as perpetrators and females as victims, as well as a heavy-handed law enforcement response that compromises the rights of criminal defendants without necessarily reducing violence. Gender and Domestic Violence presents empirical research findings and reform recommendations for prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, policy makers and intervention providers with the aim of rectifying shortcomings in legal and law enforcement responses to domestic violence. The volume''s editors and chapter authors confront the notion that certain beliefs shared among victim advocates, legal actors, and other stakeholders -- principally that domestic violence is bound by gender, and is primarily a crime against women -- Trade ReviewI applaud and admire John Hamel and Brenda Russell for putting together this book. The book is well-researched with chapters written by highly regarded experts in the field. Although destined to be controversial, it's long overdue, and provides solid research and recommendations for both criminal justice and family courts for how to best handle domestic violence cases. It takes on the political controversy and provides evidence-based information on how gender is not the determining predictor for who commits domestic violence. It is a must read for all who work in the field of domestic violence and who encounter domestic violence in the criminal courts, family courts, and service professions. * Denise A. Hines, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University *Finally! Perhaps the most comprehensive approach to understanding IPV in terms of policy and practice, this book gathers the work of committed scholars who ignored convention in the face of great opposition and steadfastly pushed for a greater understanding of women's use of violence. Hamel and Russell's book shines light in the dark corners where change and progress are desperately needed and represents more than a decade of effort to transform our thinking - and thus our policies, practices, and treatment approaches - resulting in a paradigmatic shift in the conversations around gender and IPV. * Michelle Mohr Carney, PhD, MSSA, Dean & Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas *As a former domestic violence prosecutor, I struggled with the one-size-fits-all approach to IPV. As a current defense attorney, I see the havoc this homogenous mindset causes for the wrongfully accused. With a scientific and fact-driven approach, this volume recognizes and reports the nuances of IPV, and asks questions of our current criminal legal system based on research, not stereotypes or politics. Prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges must wrestle with the evidence presented in this volume or risk being well-intentioned agents of injustice. * Peter Chambers, Esq., Law Office of Peter James Chambers *Table of ContentsPart I Topic Overview of Research on Domestic Violence 1 Introduction-The Problem with the Gender Paradigm John Hamel, Ph.D. & Brenda Russell, Ph.D 2 What We Currently Know about the Prevalence, Causes and Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence Elizabeth Bates, Ph.D. & Alexandra Papamichail, Ph.D 3 The Law Enforcement Response to IPV: Toward a Gender-Neutral Approach Brenda Russell, Ph.D & Emily Seisler, BA. BA Part II Litigation 4 Gender, Sex, and the Prosecution of Intimate Partner Violence Jennifer Cox, Ph.D., Elizabeth MacNeil, B.A. & Hannah Lind, B.A. 5 Challenges and Strategies in Mounting a Legal Defense in IPV Criminal Cases Charles Dresow, Esq 6 Intimate Partner Homicides and the Battered Person Syndrome John Hamel, Ph.D, Don Dutton, Ph.D., & Alexandra Lysova, Ph.D 7 Jury Decision Making: Understanding and Overcoming Bias in the Courtroom Brenda Russell, Ph.D. & Blake McKimmie, Ph.D Part III Family Law 8 Guidelines for Domestic Violence and Child Custody Litigation David Pisarra, Esq 9 Custody and Intervention Recommendations in Family Law Cases: A Gender-Inclusive Framework John Hamel, Ph.D. & Kelly Baker, Ph.D 10 The Same Coin: Intimate Partner Violence, Child Abuse, and Parental Alienation Jennifer Harman, Ph.D & Edward Kruk, Ph.D Part IV Evidence-Based Interventions 11 Holding Perpetrators Accountable: Evidence-based Interview and Assessment Procedures John Hamel, Ph.D. & Liam Ennis, Ph.D 12 Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) Informed Approaches to Batterer Intervention Treatment Amie Roberts, LMH Counselor, CPM 13 Couples and Family Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Victoria Bennet, M.A., Janella Chu, B.S., Deanna Pollard, M.A., & Julia Babcock, Ph.D. 14 Restorative Justice Alternatives Briana Barocas, Ph.D. & Rei Shimizu, LMSW, Ph.D

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Book SynopsisThis book provides systematic analysis of the way in which The Hague Child Abduction Convention has been applied in England and Scotland, with reference also to the case law of Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and the US. All the key provisions and terms of the Convention are explored.Trade ReviewWritten in a clear and elegant style, this monograph accomplishes its goals of presenting the convention in its practical and theoretical aspects, drawing on a broad spectrum of sources, both judicial and academic, in an international perspective. The Oxford series has set a very high standard, and Beaumont & McEleavy have certainly lived up to it. * McGill Law Journal *... valuable to anyone seeking clear and detailed explanations of how the convention actually works. * McGill Law Journal *... provides a timely examination of the theoretical and practical aspects of the Hague Convention. * McGill Law Journal *... a significant contribution to the literature on transborder child custody and the international community's response to it. * McGill Law Journal *This is a book of first class scholarship ... the authors offer thoughtful and incisive criticism on every topic. No one working in the area of international family law will want to be without this book. Anyone considering writing a legal commentary on an international convention would be wise to study what is a truly exemplary work. * International and Comparative Law Quarterly *The important Oxford Monographs in Private International Law series has recently been enriched by this book devoted to one of the most widely ratified Hague Conventions: the 1980 Convention on international child-kidnapping. * Revue Critique de Droit Internationale Privé *... this book provides a wealth of information from both the social and legal points of view ... this text should be a standard referencee work in regards to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. * Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface ; Preface ; Table of Cases ; Table of Legislation ; Introduction ; Sociological Review and Analysis of International Child Abduction ; The Evolution of an International Convention: The Hague Model ; Aims ; Removal and Retention ; Rights of Custody ; Habitual residence ; Article 13(1)(a): Has the Dispossessed Parent Consented or Subsequently Acquiesced in the Removal or Retention? ; The Protection of Children where a return may result in Harm: Article 13(1)(b), Undertakings & Article 20 ; The Right of a Mature Minor to object to a Return: Article 13 ; Article 12(2): The Child is now settled in its New Environment ; Rights of Access ; Relationship of the Hague Convention with Other International Instruments ; Interpretation ; The Child Abduction Convention in Practice ; Conclusions ; Appendix 1: English and French Text of the Convention ; Appendix 2: Table of Ratifications and Accessions ; Appendix 3: Hague Convention Statistics ; Index

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Book SynopsisBromley's Family Law remains the most authoritative textbook on the subject and has been used by generations of both students and practitioners as a reliable source of guidance. It is both detailed yet readable, offering a black-letter account of family law while situating the subject in its UK and international context.Trade ReviewAdjectives such as 'accessible' and 'readable' spring to mind when describing this book. It lends itself to being dipped into. Authoritative without being didactic, Bromley's is a perennial favourite. * Tony Roe, Law Society Gazette *Well researched...critical analysis of legal principles with the use of critical perspectives * Dr. Maureen Mapp, Birmingham Law School *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Forming intimate enduring adult relationships 3: The personal and property consequences of marriage, civil partnership and cohabitation 4: The family home 5: Protection from domestic abuse 6: Divorce and dissolution 7: Child support 8: Financial remedies: the court's powers 9: Financial remedies: principles and assessment 10: The legal position of children 11: Parents and guardians 12: What is parental responsibility? 13: Who has parental responsibility? 14: The welfare principle 15: Children's participation in family proceedings 16: Private law proceedings concerning children 17: Public law proceedings concerning children 18: Care and supervision 19: Adoption and special guardianship 20: The High Court's inherent powers in respect of children 21: The 1996 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children 22: International parental child abduction

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Book SynopsisEnriched with examples and carefully-constructed scenarios, Family Law offers students a helpful framework on which they can hang principles, academic analysis, and critical discussion.Trade Reviewa very useful book * Tony Roe, The Law Society Gazette *This book provides a detailed and user-friendly approach. Practical scenarios regularly feature throughout the text, helping students develop their application skills in addition to a thorough theoretical overview. * Dr Emma Nottingham, Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester *An accessible text with a good mix of practical scenarios assisting the reader to apply the law, with detailed historical context and academic discussion. * Amanda Millmore, Associate Professor, University of Reading *Engaging, interesting, different. * Dr Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella, Associate Professor, University of Leicester *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Marriage and civil partnership 3: Ending a marriage or civil partnership 4: Financial provision on divorce 5: Cohabitants and remedies not dependent on marriage 6: Financial support for children 7: Protection from domestic abuse 8: Parenthood and parental responsibility 9: Children's rights and welfare 10: Private law disputes about children 11: Child protection: state support for children 12: Child protection: care, supervision, and adoption

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Book SynopsisFamily Law Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Written by experts and covering all key topics, Concentrate guides help focus your revision and maximise your exam performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused breakdown of the key topics and cases. Revision guides you can rely on: trusted by lecturers, loved by students... I have always used OUP revision and Q&A books and genuinely believe they have helped me get better grades - Anthony Poole, law student, Swansea UniversityThe detail in this revision textbook is phenomenal and is just what is needed to push your exam preparation to the next level - Stephanie Lomas, law student, University of Central LancashireIt is a little more in-depth than other revision guides, and also has clear diagrams and teaches ways to obtain extra marks. These features make it unique - Godwin Tan, law student, University College LondonThe concentrate revision guides stand Trade ReviewProvides the perfect amount of information. Detailed without being too long or cumbersome, succinct but doesn't miss anything out. Absolutely spot on. * Hollie Walsh, law student, University of Manchester *Clear, concise, and very useful for building your understanding of tricky concepts. A great help for revision, clarification, and seminar preparation! * Meraj Sakaria, law student, Swansea University *

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Book SynopsisThis text presents a concise compendium of America's sex laws and brings together in one place, and summarizes, the laws regulating personal sexual activity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Rape and Sexual Assault 2: Marital Exemptions from Rape and Sexual Assault 3: Age of Consent 4: Sodomy 5: Transmission of Disease 6: Public Nudity and Indecency 7: Fornication 8: Adultery 9: Abuse of Position of Trust or Authority 10: Incest 11: Bigamy 12: Prostitution 13: Possession of Obscene Materials 14: Bestiality 15: Necrophilia 16: Obscene Communications 17: Voyeurism Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis is a concise compendium of America's sex laws, summarizing the laws regulating personal sexual activity; revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities and irrationalities; and providing an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation.

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From the BESTSELLING Law Express revision series. Law Express Question and Answer: Family Law is designed to ensure you get the most marks for every answer you write by improving your understanding of what examiners are looking for, helping you to focus in on the question being asked and showing you how to make even a strong answer stand out.

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Book SynopsisCrossover Children in the Youth Justice and Child Protection Systems explores the outcomes faced by the group of children who experience involvement with both child protection and youth justice systems across several countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Situated against a backdrop of international evidence and grounded in a two-year study with the Childrenâs Court in Victoria, Australia, this book presents a cohesive picture of the backgrounds, characteristics, and pathways traversed by crossover children. It presents statistical data from 300 crossover Childrenâs Court case files, alongside the expert evidence of 82 professionals, to generate a comprehensive picture of the lives of crossover children, and the individual and systemic challenges that they face. The book investigates the crucial question of why some children involved with child welfare systems experience particularly poor criminal justice outcomes, demonstrating how the convergence of cumulative childhood adversity, complex support needs, and systemic disadvantage produces acutely damaging outcomes for some crossover youth. It outlines the implications of the study, including how these findings might shape diversion and differential justice system responses to child protection-involved youth, and the innovative approaches adopted internationally to avert the care to custody pathway. This book is internationally relevant and will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology and law, social work, psychology, and sociology, as well as legal, welfare, and government agencies and policy developers, non-government peak bodies and services, professional probation services, case managers, health and mental health services, disability and drug treatment agencies, and others who work with both young offenders and the design and implementation of policy and legislation.Trade Review"This book provides stories and experiences of ‘crossover children’ and the systems that have not given them the care they need. Unfortunately these stories are far from rare. By providing an analysis that highlights systemic failures, the book is a call to action – we need to ‘disrupt the pipeline’ from child protection and out-of-home care to youth justice." — Julie Edwards, CEO of Jesuit Social Services, Australia"This research provides an unflinching account of the criminalisation of childhood abuse and trauma, detailing the overlap of children in the youth justice and child protection systems. Attention to these children is long overdue; this research provides a vital and unprecedented picture of their experiences and their pathways into and beyond the youth justice system. It is research that absolutely must be used to inform the major improvements needed to ensure children get the support they deserve and need." — Liana Buchanan, Principal Commissioner for Children and Young People, Victoria, Australia "Children who are in both the youth justice and care and protection systems usually have the most complex cases and worst prognosis of all who come before the court. Many pass through with little or nothing happening to change their trajectories toward adult offending. Paradoxically they are perhaps the least understood and worst catered for because we have not had the quality of information necessary to help inform effective ways to manage them. In some courts, strategies such as crossover lists have been adopted to try and improve the way such cases are managed but, more often than not, these are ad hoc and based on anecdotal evidence only.The type of thorough research, wide consultation and careful analysis needed to properly inform the necessary systemic change is contained in this excellent and thoughtfully compiled book. It captures the wide range of factors to be considered including the true scale of the issue and the diversity of perspectives held by the numerous professionals and agencies interested in the subject. For that reason, it should be compulsory reading for that entire audience including academics and policy makers.It also goes beyond other research I have read by not only analysing data and looking at trends but also providing explanations for the trends and taking both a big picture and close-up look at the issues. Importantly too, it not only considers the various risk factors for these children but also reminds us that risk is not the same thing as destiny when the right opportunities are provided." — Judge Tony Fitzgerald, District and Youth Court Judge, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Child Protection and Youth Offending: A Cross-National Concern2. Government and Policy Developments Related to Crossover Children 3. The Characteristics and Pathways of Crossover Children: The Study Explained 4. Court Records: The Profile of "Crossover Kids" 5. Crossover Kids: Professionals’ Perspectives on Offending and Desistance 6. Culture and Indigeneity: Risk and Responses for Indigenous Crossover Children 7. The Nature and Contexts of Offending Among Crossover Children 8. Crossover Children: Where Criminogenic Risk Meets Systemic Disadvantage 9. Disrupting the Pipeline: Decriminalising Child Protection-Involved Youth

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This book explains and discusses how a childâs right to freedom of expression is upheld through practice and decision-making in Child Protection Services (CPS). Using the right to expression as stipulated in Article 12.2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a point of departure, it explains what CPS practices should look like and how they must operate to uphold and enforce the rights of the child by providing the opportunity to be heard in any administrative practice. Current research literature documents extensively, and across countries, how either the voice of the child is not heard or, alternatively, the existence of a pro forma/tokenistic approach to listening to the child throughout CPS practices. Taking a three-fold approach, this book establishes a clearer connection between rights and professional practice according to Article 12 extrapolates how rights-based practice is achieved during CPS practi

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a problem-based approach to explore the dilemmas that arise when the law and social work ethics conflict. It highlights what the law says, what ethical principles are at stake, and what these imply for policy and practice, helping students to develop an understanding of the issues involved.Trade Review‘Knowledge of law and ethics are both central to social work practice. This book explores the interaction and inter-relationship between the two, discusses the inevitable tension and conflict, and explains how they link to contemporary practice. It tackles head on a number of pertinent issues for social work emerging from law and ethics, including: freedom, choice, responsibility and protection. Jonathan Dickens brings many years of social work practice and academic experience to this subject and this is evident in the manner in which he capably engages with the issues. I highly recommend this text to social work students undertaking their qualifying training and for qualified social workers wishing to explore in more detail the relationship between ethics, law and social work practice.’ – Christine Cocker, Principal Lecturer in Social Work, Middlesex University, UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Principles and Frameworks 1. Key Concepts 2. Fairness 3. The Legal Framework 4. The Ethical Framework 5. Freedom and Society Summary of Part 1 Part 2: Questions and Cases 6. End of Life Decisions 7. Choices, Capacity and Competence 8. Responsibility and Circumstances 9. Responsibility and Blame 10. Crime, Punishment and Protection 11. Culture and Difference 12. Confidentiality, Information-sharing and Openness 13. Organisations and Individuals

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Book SynopsisRoutledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn't you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision companions? Fully updated and revised with all the most important recent legal developments, Routledge Lawcards are packed with features: Revision checklists help you to consolidate the key issues within each topic Colour coded highlighting really makes cases and legislation stand out Full tables of cases and legislation make for easy reference Boxed case notes pick out the cases that are most likely to come uTrade Review“This is an excellent series, which hits the target at a remarkable number of levels. The clarity of its reference points makes it ideal for students new to undergraduate study, while at the same time being the perfect ‘refresher’ book for students about to start on professional courses. More than that, the series is great as a ‘starter pack’ for non-specialist students covering elements of law as part of their wider studies, and invaluable for teaching international students studying the English common law from abroad.”FIONA E.C. KINGLAW LECTURER (for almost 30 years in Universities & Business Schools in the UK and Europe) “What a relief! A book I can understand quickly.. I’ll be using these this year”SECOND YEAR UNDERGRADUATE "an excellent starting point for any enthusiastic reviser. The books are concise and get right down to the nitty-gritty of each topic." Lex Magazine Table of ContentsNullity. Divorce. Ancillary Relief. Family Homes and Domestic Violence. Children I. Children II. Putting it into Practice

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Book SynopsisKey Facts and Key Cases: Family Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Family Law module with ease. This book explains in concise and straightforward terms:  The law relating to marriage and its breakdown Recent developments in money cases All recent cases relating to private and public child law Helen L. Conway is a former practising barrister, now District Judge. She is an experienced law author and has taught law in both the academic and commercial sectors. Key Facts and Key Cases is the essential series for anyone studying law at LLB, postgraduate and conversion courses and professional courses such as ILEX. The series provides the simplest and most effective way to absorb and retain all of the material essential for passing your exams. Each chapter includes: diagrams at the start of chapters to summarise key points structured headings and numbered Table of Contents1. Marriage and Civil Partnership 2. Family Law Act 1996 Pt IV and Pt IVA 3. Protection from Harassment Act4. Children’s Rights 5. Introduction to the Children Act 1989 6. Parental Responsibility 7. Private Child Law8. Services for Children in Need 9. Emergency Child Protection 10. Care and Supervision Orders 11. Adoption: the Adoption and Children Act 2002 12. Challenging the Local Authority 13. Finances before a Divorce 14. Financial Remedies – finances after a divorce/dissolution of civil partnership 15. Child Support 16. Financial applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.

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Book SynopsisOVER 1,000 SOURCES OF FREE DOLLARS AND ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS Millions of dollars of services are available to help seniors and their caregivers get the top quality care they need for free or at a minimal cost.Table of ContentsTHE SERVICES AND PRODUCTS. Services and Products Available for the Well at Home. Community-Based Services. Services Provided at Home for the Ill. Alternative Housing Arrangements for Older People. Nursing Homes. Arranging and Checking Care from Afar. THE SOURCES. Associations and Organizations Directed Toward the Needs of OlderAmericans. Private Foundation Funding. Area Agencies on Aging. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisDivorce and Domestic Relations Litigation represents the accountant''s body of knowledge on divorce and domestic relations and how it relates to the divorce process, alimony, child support, and property. At once a reference tool and a training guide for firms entering this specialization, this book provides the financial professional with a single source of information regarding the financial impact, the practical course, and the underlying theories that impact domestic relations.Table of ContentsPreface. 1. THE FINANCIAL ADVISER'S IMPACT ON DIVORCE LITIGATION. Nature and Administration of the Practice. State of Law. Initial Meetings with Counsel or the Client. Child Support. Property Issues. Tracing of Assets. Division of Property. Other Issues. 2. THE FINANCIAL ADVISER'S ROLE IN DIVORCE LITIGATION. The Financial Adviser's Role. The Divorce Process. Trials. Neutral Roles. 3. THE DETERMINATION AND TAXATION OF DIVORCE PROPERTY DIVISIONS. Property Theory and Issues. Family-Limited Partnerships. Taxation of Property Transfers. Redemption of Stock in a Closely Held Corporation. 4. THE VALUATION OF BUSINESSES IN DIVORCE LITIGATION. Business Valuation. Standards. Valuation Methodologies. Analysis of the Business. Control versus Minority Interests and Other Discounts and Premiums. Determination of Value. 5. THE VALUATION AND DIVISION OF RETIREMENT PLANS IN DIVORCE LITIGATION. Retirement Plans. Types of Qualified Plans. Governmental Plans. Individual Retirement Accounts, Simplified Employee Pensions, and SIMPLE Plans. Transfer of Retirement Assets. Nonqualified Plans. 6. THE TAXATION AND DETERMINATION OF SUPPORT IN DIVORCE LITIGATION. Child Support. Spousal Support. Types of Spousal Support. Tax Treatment of Spousal Support. Recapture of Spousal Support. Spousal Support Treated as Child Support. Spousal Support Substituted for Property Awards. Allocation between Child Support and Spousal Support. 7. THE DIFFERENCES OF PROPERTY AND INCOME IN DIVORCE LITIGATION AND ISSUES OF THE MARITAL RESIDENCES. Property or Income. Marital Residence. 8. TAX ISSUES IN DIVORCE LITIGATION. Income Tax. Innocent Spouse Relief. Expanded Innocent Spouse Relief. Separate Liability Election. Equitable Relief. Miscellaneous Tax Issues. Tax Attributes in Divorce. 9. THE FINANCIAL ADVISER'S TESTIMONY. Testimony. Preparation for Trial. Direct Examination. Cross-Examination. Redirect Examination. Recross Examination. The Decision. Index.

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Book SynopsisExploring the phenomenon of divorce in American society, this book looks at divorce as a legal action, as an individual experience, and as a cultural symbol in its era of institutionalization. It analyzes the legal and legislative aspects of divorce and the public response to them.Trade Review"Anyone who imagines social lament over divorce to be a very recent phenomenon should read Norma Basch's book, which tells a fascinating set of stories about law and about culture in the United States, from the forging of divorce provision in the Revolutionary era to the moral ambiguities and acknowledged hypocrisies it caused a century later. Tacking between the social facts of rising divorce and the alarmed or enthusiastic commentary on it, Framing American Divorce guides us through the social landscape of nineteenth-century America, a tour of shifting hierarchies in which anxieties about increasing personal freedom were as powerful as desires for it." - Nancy Cott, author of The Grounding of Modern Feminism

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Hatcher, a professor of law and advocate for social justice, delivers a well-researched, scholarly, disturbing synthesis of social history and legal treatise, tracking the long-term monetization of the justice system. . . . A useful, bleak exposé of a little-understood legal labyrinth constructed to harm the most vulnerable.” * Kirkus Reviews *"Hatcher meticulously reveals a nefarious, unethical operation within juvenile and criminal justice systems. . . . This book will serve as a valuable contribution to many fields and provides an insightful resource for educators, families, and communities." * CHOICE *"Hatcher’s Injustice, Inc. provides an entirely new line of inquiry examining the hidden internal juvenile legal practices that center on capturing money— from federal funds to individuals’ income and assets. This book provides a dizzying eye opening deep dive into the juvenile legal system to highlight the strategies and practices which courts, police, prosecutors, probation offices, and confinement institutions use to generate revenue for state and local jurisdictions and even for personal profit." * Social Forces *“Daniel L. Hatcher, in his book Injustice, Inc., describes in detail a frankly apartheid system finely designed to milk every source of revenue from poor children.. He describes ‘factory-like operations’, ‘industrialization of harm’, ‘child support mercenaries’. He quotes official contracts that describe foster children as ‘units’, children as ‘data match algorithms’ for ‘predictive analytics’, and children as a ‘revenue generating mechanism.’ Paraphrasing poet Walt Whitman: ‘Out of the cradle endlessly rocking … [to] death, death, death, death.’” * Counterpunch *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice 2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals 3. Judicial Child Support Factory 4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit 5. The Probation Business 6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor 7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor 8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEssentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to parent the child she bears and that a man's brief moment of ejaculation matters more than a woman's labor. Armed with such dubious arguments, courts have stripped women of the right to abortion, treated surrogate mothers as mere vessels, and handed biological fatherseven those who became fathers through rapeautomatic rights over women and their children. In this incisive and groundbreaking book, Jennifer Hendricks argues that feminists must overthrow the skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caregiving, and denies too many the right to parent.Trade Review"Comprehensive yet concise. . . . Essentially a Mother arrives just when we need a reminder that it is time to update the values at the basis of American law and that relational feminism shows us how to do it." * Jotwell *"Jennifer Hendricks has done us all a service by problematizing a legal framework that does not respect sexual difference between men and women. In doing so, she gives us the chance to restore both humanity and justice to our law." * Deseret News *Table of ContentsContents Introduction PART ONE SEX DIFFERENCE AND ACCOMMODATION 1 • Mothers at Work 2 • Fathers at Home 3 • What the Law Protects . . . 4 • . . . and Why PART TWO THE COLLAPSE OF THE CARETAKING 5 • Expanding Fathers’ Rights against Mothers 6 • Sidelining Inconvenient Fathers 7 • Leveling Down to Genes PART THREE A FEMINIST APPROACH 8 • How to Reason from the Body 9 • The Body and Beyond Conclusion Timeline of Cases Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEssentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to parent the child she bears and that a man's brief moment of ejaculation matters more than a woman's labor. Armed with such dubious arguments, courts have stripped women of the right to abortion, treated surrogate mothers as mere vessels, and handed biological fatherseven those who became fathers through rapeautomatic rights over women and their children. In this incisive and groundbreaking book, Jennifer Hendricks argues that feminists must overthrow the skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caregiving, and denies too many the right to parent.Trade Review"Comprehensive yet concise. . . . Essentially a Mother arrives just when we need a reminder that it is time to update the values at the basis of American law and that relational feminism shows us how to do it." * Jotwell *"Jennifer Hendricks has done us all a service by problematizing a legal framework that does not respect sexual difference between men and women. In doing so, she gives us the chance to restore both humanity and justice to our law." * Deseret News *Table of ContentsContents Introduction PART ONE SEX DIFFERENCE AND ACCOMMODATION 1 • Mothers at Work 2 • Fathers at Home 3 • What the Law Protects . . . 4 • . . . and Why PART TWO THE COLLAPSE OF THE CARETAKING 5 • Expanding Fathers’ Rights against Mothers 6 • Sidelining Inconvenient Fathers 7 • Leveling Down to Genes PART THREE A FEMINIST APPROACH 8 • How to Reason from the Body 9 • The Body and Beyond Conclusion Timeline of Cases Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults. Today, about half of all adults are unmarried. Many of those are in significant relationshipssome intimate, others based in friendship, finances, or family tiesbut the law offers them few protections. Amid the growing recognition that modern families take all shapes, More Than Marriage presents a refreshing vision for the future. With this book, noted family-law expert John G. Culhane takes us on a guided tour of how the march toward marriage equality spun off a number of other legal statuses, and explores how the law has expanded and where it falls short. This lively living history is grounded in relatable, in-depth interviews that give voice to the millions of Americans building family structures outside the protections of marriagewhether by choice, necessity, or exclusion. Culhane proposes an updated legal status that offers flexible and portable Trade Review"An inspired introduction to legal understandings of marriage equality that issues an urgent argument for continued reforms." * Foreword Reviews *"This book about marriage alternatives should appeal to a general audience. Ideal for those interested in domestic law policies." * Library Journal *"Recommended [for] advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." * CHOICE *"Culhane offers a refreshing take on how we might legally enshrine a variety of forms of relationships and intimacies. . . . More Than Marriage will be immersive reading for those interested in the legal recognition of relationships and for imagining new possibilities beyond marriage." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction: Marriage Equality—an Important but Limited Victory 1. The Dawn of the Domestic Partnership, or "We Bored Them to Death" 2. Civil Unions: Not Marriage, but an Incredible Simulation! 3. The Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act: Colorado's Successful Experiment 4. What Is Marriage, Anyway? (And What Isn't Marriage?) 5. Matching Relationship Law to Reality Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduces an expansive vision of the family and a brilliant legal arrangement that will protect the lives of millions of adults. Today, about half of all adults are unmarried. Many of those are in significant relationshipssome intimate, others based in friendship, finances, or family tiesbut the law offers them few protections. Amid the growing recognition that modern families take all shapes, More Than Marriage presents a refreshing vision for the future. With this book, noted family-law expert John G. Culhane takes us on a guided tour of how the march toward marriage equality spun off a number of other legal statuses, and explores how the law has expanded and where it falls short. This lively living history is grounded in relatable, in-depth interviews that give voice to the millions of Americans building family structures outside the protections of marriagewhether by choice, necessity, or exclusion. Culhane proposes an updated legal status that offers flexible and portable Trade Review"An inspired introduction to legal understandings of marriage equality that issues an urgent argument for continued reforms." * Foreword Reviews *"This book about marriage alternatives should appeal to a general audience. Ideal for those interested in domestic law policies." * Library Journal *"Recommended [for] advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." * CHOICE *"Culhane offers a refreshing take on how we might legally enshrine a variety of forms of relationships and intimacies. . . . More Than Marriage will be immersive reading for those interested in the legal recognition of relationships and for imagining new possibilities beyond marriage." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction: Marriage Equality—an Important but Limited Victory 1. The Dawn of the Domestic Partnership, or "We Bored Them to Death" 2. Civil Unions: Not Marriage, but an Incredible Simulation! 3. The Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act: Colorado's Successful Experiment 4. What Is Marriage, Anyway? (And What Isn't Marriage?) 5. Matching Relationship Law to Reality Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAn unflinching exposé of how the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems monetize the communities they purport to serve and trap them in crushing poverty Injustice, Inc. exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America's history of racial and economic inequality to generate revenue on a massive scale. With searing legal analysis, Daniel L. Hatcher uncovers how courts, prosecutors, police, probation departments, and detention facilities are abandoning ethics to churn vulnerable children and adults into unconstitutional factory-like operations. Hatcher reveals stark details of revenue schemes and reflects on the systemic racialized harm of the injustice enterprise. He details how these corporatized institutions enter contracts to make money removing children from their homes, extort fines and fees, collaborate with debt collectors, seize property, incentivize arrests and evictions, enforce unpaid child labor, maximize occupancy in detention and treatment centers, and Trade Review“Hatcher, a professor of law and advocate for social justice, delivers a well-researched, scholarly, disturbing synthesis of social history and legal treatise, tracking the long-term monetization of the justice system. . . . A useful, bleak exposé of a little-understood legal labyrinth constructed to harm the most vulnerable.” * Kirkus Reviews *"Hatcher meticulously reveals a nefarious, unethical operation within juvenile and criminal justice systems. . . . This book will serve as a valuable contribution to many fields and provides an insightful resource for educators, families, and communities." * CHOICE *"Hatcher’s Injustice, Inc. provides an entirely new line of inquiry examining the hidden internal juvenile legal practices that center on capturing money— from federal funds to individuals’ income and assets. This book provides a dizzying eye opening deep dive into the juvenile legal system to highlight the strategies and practices which courts, police, prosecutors, probation offices, and confinement institutions use to generate revenue for state and local jurisdictions and even for personal profit." * Social Forces *“Daniel L. Hatcher, in his book Injustice, Inc., describes in detail a frankly apartheid system finely designed to milk every source of revenue from poor children.. He describes ‘factory-like operations’, ‘industrialization of harm’, ‘child support mercenaries’. He quotes official contracts that describe foster children as ‘units’, children as ‘data match algorithms’ for ‘predictive analytics’, and children as a ‘revenue generating mechanism.’ Paraphrasing poet Walt Whitman: ‘Out of the cradle endlessly rocking … [to] death, death, death, death.’” * Counterpunch *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice 2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals 3. Judicial Child Support Factory 4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit 5. The Probation Business 6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor 7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor 8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSome people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. This book presents the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. It explores issues such as the sharing of household output, the control of domestic misconduct, and the ownership of dwelling units.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009 "Robert C. Ellickson defines the household as a voluntary grouping of relatives or non-relatives living under the same roof. As he points out in his engaging study, this pervasive institution has received surprisingly little attention from social theorists... The Household, a short, curious and enjoyable book, provides a novel way of looking at an institution from which very few of us can escape."--Lucy Worsley, Times Literary Supplement "Ellickson's book represents a skillful use of the analytical tools of the law-and-economics movement to understand relations within the household--a complicated machine for living that involves a large number of joint decisions... Ellickson's book pushes us to think more clearly about the benefits and the costs of homeownership. His book makes sense of one of the most striking facts in the homeownership literature: the extremely tight relationship between structure type and ownership... Houses are most Americans' most important asset. They are the stages on which we live our lives. And so housing policy is worthy of intense attention--but until the current crisis housing policy existed in the netherworld of the more unglamorous public pursuits. Perhaps our present-day troubles will create the opportunity to produce better housing policies, or so I hope. Robert Ellickson's ideas can certainly help."--Edward Glaeser, The New Republic "This volume is a tour de force! Ellickson takes the reader on an erudite, highly informative journey through the household in all of its many manifestations and facets... The reader enjoys a catholic view of why households persist; why they are the size they are; how ownership versus rental decisions are made; what motivates adding or shedding household members; and most fascinatingly, how informal norms regulate household occupant behavior with little formal and explicit societal legislation."--D. J. Conger, Choice "Through its methodological synthesis of economic with legal and sociological analysis, this text serves as an important primer on household structures in liberal societies."--Patricia McGee Crotty, Law and Politics Book Review "By pulling together a range of diverse topics and data, the book is thought-provoking. It is dense but readable, and Ellickson presents economic arguments in an accessible way. Reading it challenged (and energized) me to think about the unique contribution of sociological explanations."--Carrie Yodanis, Canadian Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface xi Chapter 1: how households differ from families 1 Chapter 2: household formation and dissolution in a liberal society 10 Three Distinct Relationships that May Exist within a Household 10 Foundational Liberal Rights that Enable Individuals to Fashion Their Own Households 13 Household Surplus and Its Distribution among Members 22 Chapter 3: The predominant strategy : consorting with intimates 27 Favoring Those with Whom One Will Have Continuing Relations 29 Limiting the Number of Persons in the Relationship 32 Favoring Homogeneity of Tastes and Stakes 32 Chapter 4: a historical overview of household forms 35 Occupants of Households: The Predominance of Small, Kin-Based Clusters 35 Owners of Dwelling Units 41 Residential Landlord-Tenant Relationships 44 Chapter 5: are the household forms that endure necessarily best? 46 Utopian Designs of Unconventional Households 46 Possible Imperfections, from a Liberal Perspective, in the Process of Household Formation 47 Is Liberalism Overly Destructive of Solidarity? 51 The Unpromising History of Experiments with Unconventional Household Forms 53 Chapter 6: choosing which of a household's participants should serve as i ts owners 60 Basic Concepts in the Theory of the Ownership of Enterprise 60 Why Suppliers of a Household's At-Risk Capital Tend to End Up Owning It 64 Chapter 7: The mixed blessings of joining with others 76 Adding Co-Occupants 76 Adding Co-Owners 85 Choosing between Owning and Renting a Home 86 Chapter 8: order without law in an ongoing household 92 The Tendency toward Welfare-Maximizing Substantive and Procedural Rules 94 Sources of Household Rules: In General 101 Rules for Co-Occupants 109 Rules for Co-Owners 120 Rules to Govern the Landlord-Tenant Relationship 123 Chapter 9: The challenge of unpacking the household 128 Appendix A: Data on Intentional Communities 137 Appendix B: Data on Co-housing Communities 145 Notes 147 Works Cited 199 Index 237

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Book SynopsisA radical critique of the conventions underlying family law practiceTrade Review'Invaluable as a compendium of ideas, and as a starting point, for the longer term project of theorising family law' -- John Dewar, Hertford College, Oxford University

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Book SynopsisWith the accelerating movement of individuals and families across national borders, the intersections of cultural and legal frameworks have become increasingly complex. The Multi-Cultural Family collects essays from around the world on the challenges of legal pluralism, minority religious communities and customary or indigenous law, with attention paid to marriage and divorce, as well as child custody and adoption, family violence and dispute resolution.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Marriage and Divorce: Religious Minority Groups and the Secular State: Toward a multicultural family law, Ann Laquer Estin; Taking multiculturalism seriously: marriage law and the rights of minorities, Patrick Parkinson; Muslim maghrebian marriage in France: a problem for legal pluralism, Edwige Rude-Antoine; Migrant women caught between Islamic family law and women's rights. The search for the appropriate 'connecting factor' in international family law, Marie-Claire Foblets; Rationality and cultural pluralism in the non-recognition of foreign marriages, John Murphy; Citizenship on trial: Nadia's case, Unni Wikan; Blaming culture for bad behavior, Leti Volpp; The reconstruction of the Constitution and the case for Muslim personal law in Canada, Syed Mumtaz Ali and Enab Whitehouse; Muslim women and 'Islamic divorce' in England, Lucy Carroll; Jewish marriage and civil law: a 2-way street?, David Novak. Legal Pluralism and Women's Rights: Balancing minority rights and gender justice: the impact of protecting multiculturalism on women's rights in India, Pratibha Jain; A critical analysis of customary marriages, bohali and the South African Constitution, R. Songca; Women, religion and multiculturalism in Israel, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari; A cross cultural perspective on reproductive rights, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer; An Islamic perspective on domestic violence, Azizah Y. al-Hibri. Indigenous and Customary Law: Indigenous peoples and family law: issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Jacinta Ruru; Evolving indigenous law: Navajo marriage - cultural traditions and modern challenges, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez; Valid-where-consummated: the intersection of customary law marriages and formal adjudication, Lona N. Laymon. Part II Children: Children between cultures, John Eekelaar; Complicating culture in child placement decisions, Annie Bunting; Understanding sending country's traditions and policies in international adoptions: avoiding legal and cultural pi

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Book SynopsisThe law has long been interested in marriage and conjugal cohabitation and in the range of public and private obligations that accrue from intimate living. This collection of classic articles explores that legal interest, while at the same time locating marriage and cohabitation within a range of intimate affiliations. It offers the perspectives of a number of international scholars on questions of how, if at all, our different ways of intimacy ought to be recognised and regulated by law.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction, Alison Diduck. Part I Changing Intimacies - the Theory: On the way to a post-familial family: from a community of need to elective affinities, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim; Intimacy transformed? A critical look at the 'pure relationship', Lynn Jamieson. Part II Changing Intimacies - Empirical Research: Why marry? - perceptions of the affianced, Mary Hibbs, Chris Barton and Joanne Beswick; Why don't they marry? Cohabitation, commitment and DIY marriage, Simon Duncan, Anne Barlow and Grace James; Cohabitation and commitment: partnership plans of young men and women, Lynn Jamieson, Michael Anderson, David McCrone, Frank Bechofer, Robert Stewart and Yaojun Li; Marriage and the moral bases of personal relationships, John Eekelaar and Mavis Maclean; The significance of marriage: contrasts between white British and ethnic minority groups in England, Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar; Regulation of intimacy and love semantics in couples living apart together, Bernadette Bawin-Legros and Anne Gauthier; Cultures of intimacy and care beyond 'the family': personal life and social change in the early 21st century, Sasha Roseneil and Shelley Budgeon. Part III Why Legal Regulation At All?: The Marriage Act 1753: a case study in family law-making, Stephen Parker; Debates and issues regarding marriage and cohabitation in the British and American literature, Jane Lewis; Homosexual rights, Brenda Hale. Part IV Law and Marriage: The case against legal recognition of cohabitation, Ruth L. Deech; Marriage and the good of obligation, Scott Fitzgibbon; Just marriage: on the public importance of private unions, Mary Lyndon Shanley; Contract marriage - the way forward or dead end?, David McLellan; The tide in favour of equality: same-sex marriage in Canada and England and Wales, Wade K. Wright; Why marriage?, Martha Albertson Fineman; Marriage is for heterosexuals - may the rest of us be saved from it, Kenneth McK. Norrie; We will get what we ask for: why legalizi

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Book SynopsisA collection that engages in a rigorous and sometimes contentious exploration of the legal, political, social and cultural implications of the authors' distinct theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality.Trade Review'This exploration of tensions among feminist and queer theorists is possibly the most useful theory anthology of the decade. Tensions are put in play by placing superlative essays in each other's path and letting the provocations rip. Sure to produce a watershed moment for the trajectories of both theory genres, the anthology is so smartly organized and interspersed with incisive editorial material that it will teach itself.' Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley, USA '... an eclectic and interesting collection of essays rethinking legal categories and policies through feminist and gay perspectives. In this volume, one will encounter the sexual family, the sanitized workplace, compulsory matrimony, transgressive caretaking, and other iconoclastic concepts.' William Eskridge, Yale University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Feminist and Queer Legal Theory; Queer With or Without Feminist Legal Theory?; Queer Theory by Men 1; Theorizing Yes: An Essay On Feminism, Law, and Desire 1; The Sexual Family 1; The Sanitized Workplace Revisited 1; Queering Sexual Orientation: A Call for Theory as Praxis; Feminist With or Without Queer Legal Theory?; How Queer Theory Makes Neoliberalism Sexy; Proper Objects, Different Subjects and Juridical Horizons in Radical Legal Critique; A Few Words in Favor of Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace 1; Care and Feminists 1; Methodological Descriptions: “Feminist” and “Queer” Legal Theories; Pluralizing Difference; The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure 1; Black Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights; The Transgender Rights Imaginary 1; Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence 1; The Politics and Law of Kinship, Intimacy, and Care; This Is Not Your Father's Autonomy: Lesbian and Gay Rights From a Feminist and Relational Perspective 1; Compulsory Matrimony; From Paternafare to Marriage Promotion: Sexual Regulation and Welfare Reform; Transgressive Caregiving; Law and Strategy at the Crossroads of Feminist and Queer Legal Theories; The Troubled Relationship of Feminist and Queer Legal Theory to Strategic Essentialism: Theory/Praxis, Queer Porn, and Canadian Anti-discrimination Law; Poststructuralism on Trial; Queer Victory, Feminist Defeat? Sodomy and Rape in Lawrence v. Texas; Postscript: Curious Encounters, Unpredictable Conversations

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Book SynopsisA core text for the Law and Society or Sociology of Law course offered in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, and Schools of Law. John Sutton offers an explicitly analytical perspective to the subject - how does law change? What makes law more or less effective in solving social problems? What do lawyers do? Chapter 1 contrasts normative and sociological perspectives on law, and presents a brief primer on the logic of research and inference as it is applied to law related issues. Theories of legal change are discussed within a common conceptual framework that highlights the explantory strengths and weaknesses of different arguments. Discussions of law in action are explicitly comparative, applying a consistent model to explain the variable outcomes of civil rights legislation. Many concrete, in-depth examples throughout the chapters.Trade Review"I think this book is going to be major contribution to the sociology of law. The balance between theory and substance, always a problem in this field, is very nice." -- Lauren Edelman"I look forward to using this book in my undergraduate sociology of law course." -- Celesta AlbonettiTable of ContentsAn Introduction to the Sociology of Law PART ONE: LEGAL CHANGE Evolutionary Theories of Legal Change Maine and Durkheim Law, Class Conflict and the Economy Marxian Theory Law and the State Max Weber′s Sociology of Law The Problem of Law in the Activist State PART TWO: LEGAL ACTION Voting Rights and School Desegregation Equal Employment Opportunity PART THREE: THE LEGAL PROFESSION Law as a Profession The Transformation of Legal Practice in the Late 20th Century

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Book SynopsisUnfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in many parts of the Canadian justice system and around the world. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn't working in an effort to improve a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice.Meaningful access is often a question of providing pathways to resolving everyday legal issues. The availability of justice services that aren't only tied to the courts and lawyers such as public education on the law, alternative dispute settlement, and paralegal support is therefore an important concern.Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of new empirical research address several key justice issues: the extent and cost of unmet legal needs; the role of public funding; connections between legal and social exclusion among vulnerable populations; the value of new legal pathways; the provision of justice services beyond the courts and lawyers; and the need for a culture change within tTrade Review"This book is a useful resource on the costs of justice and also lays out some of the challenges in achieving meaningful access to justice." -- Ian Mackenzie * Slaw Magazine *

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Book SynopsisUnfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in many parts of the Canadian justice system and around the world. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn't working in an effort to improve a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice.Meaningful access is often a question of providing pathways to resolving everyday legal issues. The availability of justice services that aren't only tied to the courts and lawyers such as public education on the law, alternative dispute settlement, and paralegal support is therefore an important concern.Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of new empirical research address several key justice issues: the extent and cost of unmet legal needs; the role of public funding; connections between legal and social exclusion among vulnerable populations; the value of new legal pathways; the provision of justice services beyond the courts and lawyers; and the need for a culture change within tTrade Review"This book is a useful resource on the costs of justice and also lays out some of the challenges in achieving meaningful access to justice." -- Ian Mackenzie * Slaw Magazine *

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Book SynopsisThe paradigm of family has shifted rapidly and dramatically, from nuclear unit to diverse constellations of intimacy. At the same time, some norms resist change, such as women's continuing role as primary care providers despite their increased uptake of paid work. This tension between transformation and stasis in family arrangements has an impact on economic, emotional, and legal aspects of daily life.House Rules critically explores the intertwining of norms and laws that govern familial relationships. The authors in this incisive collection engage with four countries Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan and expose the ingrained and unsettled norms that affect families and the law's role in regulating them. Over recent decades, the law has struggled to adjust to transformations in what typifies the structures and practices of family life. House Rules provides tools to analyze those difficulties and, ultimately, to design laws toTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction / Erez Aloni and Régine TremblayPart 1: Locating Norms1 The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families / Allison Anna Tait2 Identity Choices at the Intersections: The Inequality of Cross-Border Motherhood and What to Do about It / Chao-ju ChenPart 2: Law’s Norms3 Family Law as Expression: Financial Relief in the English Courts / Alison Diduck4 The Complex Interrelationships of Financial and Child-Related Issues in Post-separation Disputes: Gender Matters / Rachel TreloarPart 3: Norms’ Stickiness5 Familial Ideology, Privatization, and Care Arrangements for Children in the Family Law and Child Protection Systems / Wanda Wiegers6 Family, Gender, and the Public/Private Divide in the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act 1998 / Nicola BarkerPart 4: Measuring Norms7 One Myth Leads to Another: From Ignorance of the Laws to the Presumption of Informed Choice among de Facto Spouses / Hélène Belleau8 “WAR” and Other Reasons People Move In Together: Analyzing Cohabitating Relationship Progressions in British Columbia / Erez Aloni and Adam Vanzella-YangPart 5: Reforming Norms9 Measuring Success of (Family) Law Reforms / Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay10 Abolishing Family Law (as We Know It) / Brenda CossmanIndex

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Book SynopsisSex, Sexuality, and the Constitution persuasively demonstrates the need to entrench protections for individual sexual autonomy within constitutional law. Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Sexual Autonomy: Sex, Childbirth, and the Constitution2 Sexual Freedom: The Right to Decide One’s Sexual Identity and the Right to Have Sex3 Rape: The Right Not to Be Forced to Have Sex4 Childbirth: The Right to Have a Child5 Abortion: The Right Not to Be Forced to Have a Child6 Sex, Childbirth, and the Government: Sexual Freedom, Freedom of Choice, and Population PolicyConclusionList of Caselaw, Legislation, and TreatiesNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates how parental and sexual identities are formed and interpreted in law, and how gay and lesbian parents can harness indeterminacy to transform family lawTrade Review"You could learn about the law that governs LGBT parents and their children by reading all the 316 reported court opinions about them from the last half centuryor you could read this one book. Through her analysis of majority and dissenting opinions and her interviews with lawyers, judges, and parents, Richman deftly demonstrates that the legal standard & best interests of the child and the terms & family and & parent necessarilyand imperfectlyevolve. The path forward requires understanding where weve been. Thanks to Richman, that path just got a whole lot clearer." -- Nancy D. Polikoff,author of Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law"No one has written more comprehendingly or searchingly about the topic of gay and lesbian custody and adoption than Richman. Courting Change is a must-read for scholars, students, and activists interested in family law and lesbian and gay rights." -- Verta Taylor,University of California, Santa Barbara"Richmans extensive archive and innovative approach supplies an instructive guide to how scholars can integrate various approaches to the law to influence judges, legal advocates, and other interested parties" * Law and Politics Book Review *"Richman’s exemplary scholarship reminds us of the incremental gains made by queer advocates and just how much work we have left in front of us." * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Putting a Face on the Debate 1. Introduction: Situating the Meanings of Marriage 2. The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: The Beginning 3. The Rite as Right: Marriage as Material Right, Marriage as Strategy 4. Marriage as Protest: The Political Dimensions of Marital Motivation 5. Marriage as Validation: Subjects before (and after) the Law 6. Making It Personal: Marriage, Emotion, and Love inside and outside the Law 7. Conclusion: The Multiple Meanings of Marriage Appendix 1: Survey Instrument Appendix 2: Overview of Survey Findings Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisParenting Coordination is a child-centered process for conflicted divorced and divorcing parents. The Parenting Coordinator (PC) makes decisions to help high-conflict parents who cannot agree to parenting decisions on their own. This professional text serves as a training manual for use in all states and provinces which utilize Parenting Coordination, addressing the intervention process and the science that supports it. The text offers up-to-date research, a practical guide for training, service provision, and references to relevant research for quality parenting coordination practice. Specifically, this book describes the integrated model of Parenting Coordination, including the Parent Coordinator''s professional role, responsibilities, protocol for service, and ethical guidelines.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition is a comprehensive, accessible, and practical guide to the provisions of the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. It provides up-to-date guidance on the law, practice, and procedure on the ever-increasing applications for financial provisions under the Act.Table of ContentsTable of Cases Table of Statutes Table of Statutory Instruments Table of Guides and Codes of Practice Table of International Materials 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background 1.2 Urgent need for law reform 2 PROOF OF DEATH AND DOMICILE 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Proof of death 2.3 Domicile 2.4 Domicile of origin 2.5 Domicile of dependency 2.6 Domicile of choice 2.6.1 Residence 2.6.2 Intention 2.6.3 Burden of proof 2.6.4 Standard of proof 2.6.5 Evidence 2.6.6 Summary 3 TIME LIMITS 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Commencement of the period of 6 months 3.2.1 Grant ad colligenda bona 3.2.2 Grant pending determination of claim 3.2.3 Grant ad litem 3.2.4 Grant in common form 3.2.5 Successive grants 3.2.6 De bonis non grant 3.2.7 Cessate grant 3.2.8 Authority to the Official Solicitor to obtain a grant: Senior Courts Act 1981, section 116 3.2.9 Standing search for grant 3.3 Can a claim be made before grant? 3.3.1 The position post-1 October 2014 3.4 Applications in respect of joint property – I(PFD)A 1975, section 9 3.5 Extension of time 3.5.1 Powers of the court 3.5.2 The relevant criteria to be applied in an application for extension of time 3.5.3 Merits of the claim 3.5.4 Delay in bringing the claim 3.5.5 Negotiations 3.5.6 Distribution of the estate 3.5.7 Claimant’s possible claim against third parties or solicitors 3.5.8 Conscious decision not to make a claim 3.5.9 Claimant under disability 3.5.10 Delay caused by application for public funding 3.6 Procedure 3.7 Burden of proof 4 CLAIMANTS 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Spouse of the deceased 4.2.1 Proof of marriage 4.2.2 Polygamous and potentially polygamous marriages 4.2.3 Void marriages 4.2.4 Rights of spouse to void marriage under the I(PFD)A 1975 4.2.5 Marriage entered into in good faith 4.2.6 Distinction between void marriage and non-marriage 4.2.7 Effect of annulment of void marriage to claim under the I(PFD)A 1975 4.2.8 Voidable marriage 4.2.9 Marriage with a transsexual – Gender Recognition Act 2004 4.2.10 Separation of married couples by judicial separation order (formerly decree of judicial separation) 4.3 Civil partner of the deceased 4.3.1 Proof of civil partnership 4.3.2 Void civil partnership 4.3.3 Voidable civil partnership 4.3.4 Civil partnership entered into in good faith 4.3.5 Effect of dissolution or annulment of civil partnership 4.3.6 Effect of marriage overseas between same sex couples 4.3.7 Separation order in the case of civil partnership 4.3.8 Effect on claim made by surviving spouse/civil partner by the subsequent marriage/civil partnership before the claim is determined 4.4 Former spouse of the deceased who has not remarried 4.4.1 Overseas divorce and talaq 4.4.2 Application of I(PFD)A 1975, section 14 4.4.3 Restrictions imposed in matrimonial proceedings under I(PFD)A 1975, sections 15 and 15A 4.5 Former civil partner of the deceased 4.5.1 Application of I(PFD)A 1975, section 14A 4.5.2 Restrictions imposed in proceedings for the dissolution, etc of a civil partnership on an application under I(PFD)A 1975, section 15ZA 4.6 Cohabitant of the deceased 4.6.1 Whole of the 2 years immediately before the date when the deceased died 4.6.2 Living in the same household 4.6.3 As the husband or wife of the deceased 4.6.4 Same sex cohabitants post-5 December 2005 4.6.5 Same sex cohabitants pre-5 December 2005 4.7 Child of the deceased 4.7.1 Presumption of legitimacy 4.7.2 Legitimation 4.7.3 Legitimation and same sex female partners 4.7.4 Child of void marriage 4.7.5 Adopted child 4.7.6 Child born as a result of infertility treatment 4.7.7 Mistaken transfer of sperm 4.7.8 A child who is the subject of a parental order 4.7.9 Declaration of parentage, legitimacy and legitimation 4.8 Any person treated as a child of the family 4.9 Any person (not being a person included in the forEgoing paragraphs) who immediately before the death of the deceased was being maintained either wholly or partly by the deceased 4.9.1 Being maintained 4.9.2 Substantial contribution 4.9.3 Reasonable needs 4.9.4 Otherwise than for full valuable consideration pursuant to an arrangement of a commercial nature 4.9.5 Immediately before the death of the deceased 5 FORFEITURE 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Order modifying the effect of the rule 5.3 Three-month time limit – when time begins to run 5.4 Relevant factors for modifying the effect of the Act 5.5 Further illustration of the application of section 2(2) 5.6 Does the forfeiture rule affect trusts? 5.7 Summary 6 BASIS OF THE CLAIM 6.1 Grounds on which a claim may be made 6.2 Meaning of ‘reasonable financial provision’ 6.2.1 Surviving spouse/civil partner and judicially separated spouse/civil partner 6.2.2 Surviving spouses/civil partners and those who come within I(PFD)A 1975, sections 14 and 14A 6.2.3 Claim by surviving husband 6.2.4 Judicially separated spouse/civil partner and former spouse/civil partner 6.2.5 All other claimants 6.3 Meaning of ‘maintenance’ 6.3.1 Maintenance in relation to claimants on state benefits 7 MATTERS TO WHICH THE COURT IS TO HAVE REGARD 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Relevant date for consideraton of section 3 factors 7.3 Criteria in I(PFD)A 1975, section 3 7.3.1 Surviving spouse/civil partner 7.3.2 Former spouse/civil partner of the deceased who has not remarried or formed a subsequent civil partnership, and cohabitants 7.3.3 Child of the deceased 7.3.4 Person treated as a child of the family 7.3.5 Any other person who was being maintained by the deceased 7.4 Financial resources and financial needs – I(PFD)A 1975, section 3(1)(a)–(c) 7.4.1 Financial resources 7.4.2 Financial needs 7.5 Deceased’s obligations and responsibilities – I(PFD)A 1975, section 3(1)(d) 7.6 Size and nature of the net estate – I(PFD)A 1975, section 3(1)(e) 7.7 Physical and mental disability of any claimant or beneficiary – I(PFD)A 1975, section 3(1)(f) 7.8 Any other matter including conduct – I(PFD)A 1975, section 3(1)(g) 7.8.1 The deceased’s reasons 7.8.2 Claimant’s wish to pass assets to beneficiaries of choice 7.8.3 Conduct 7.8.4 Proprietary estoppel 7.8.5 Constructive trust 7.8.6 Rule in Rochefoucauld v Boustread 7.8.7 Doctrine of mutual wills 7.9 Factors relevant to a surviving spouse, former spouse, civil partner and cohabitants 7.9.1 Age 7.9.2 Duration of marriage/civil partnership and cohabitation 7.9.3 Claimant’s contribution to the welfare of the family 7.9.4 Financial contribution 7.10 What the surviving spouse/civil partner might reasonably have expected to receive on divorce/dissolution – divorce comparison test 7.11 Factors which apply to a former spouse/civil partner or cohabitant 7.11.1 Matrimonial proceedings and disentitlement orders under I(PFD)A 1975, sections 15, 15ZA, 15A and 15B 7.12 Claim by surviving husband/cohabitant 7.13 Claims by children of the deceased and children of the family – I(PFD)A 1975, section 1(1)(c) and (d) 7.14 Claims by person maintained by the deceased – I(PFD)A 1975, section 1(1)(e) 7.15 Assumption of responsibility by the deceased – I(PFD)A 1975, section 3(3) and (4) 8 POWERS OF THE COURT TO MAKE ORDERS 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Periodical payments – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(1)(a) 8.2.1 Commencement date 8.2.2 Setting aside and appropriation of property – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(3) 8.2.3 Supplementary orders and conditions 8.2.4 Secured periodical payments order 8.2.5 Duration of periodical payments order 8.3 Lump sum order – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(1)(b) 8.3.1 Instalment order 8.3.2 Variation of order 8.3.3 Assessing amount to be awarded 8.4 Transfer of property order – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(1)(c) 8.5 Settlement of property order – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(1)(c) 8.6 Acquisition of property order – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(1)(e) 8.7 Variation of nuptial settlement – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(1)(f) and (g) 8.7.1 Has there been a settlement? 8.7.2 How should the court exercise its discretion? 8.8 Consequential and supplemental orders – I(PFD)A 1975, section 2(4) 8.9 Interim orders – I(PFD)A 1975, section 5 8.9.1 Conditions precedent 8.9.2 Matters to be considered 8.9.3 Orders that can be made 8.9.4 Personal representatives and interim orders – I(PFD)A 1975, section 20(2) 8.10 Injunctions 8.11 Variation, discharge, suspension and revival of orders – I(PFD)A 1975, section 6 8.11.1 Who may apply? 8.11.2 Orders that can be made – I(PFD)A 1975, section 6(2)–(4) 8.11.3 Meaning of ‘relevant property’ 8.11.4 Matters to be considered 8.11.5 Time limits 8.11.6 Commencement of the order 8.12 Variation and discharge of secured periodical payments orders made under Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 – I(PFD)A 1975, section 16 8.12.1 Who may apply? 8.12.2 Provisions of Children Act 1989, Schedule 1 8.13 Variation and revocation of maintenance agreements – I(PFD)A 1975, section 17 8.13.1 Meaning of ‘maintenance agreement’ 8.13.2 Orders that can be made 8.13.3 Criteria to be applied by the court 8.13.4 Effect of the order 8.14 Court’s powers in relation to applications under Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, sections 31 and 36 and CPA 2004, Schedule 5, paragraphs 60 and 73 – I(PFD)A 1975, section 18 8.14.1 Time limit 8.15 Effect, duration and form of orders – I(PFD)A 1975, section 19 9 THE NET ESTATE 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Definition – I(PFD)A 1975, Section 25(1)–(3) 9.3 Property which the deceased had power to dispose of by will 9.4 Property under general power of appointment 9.5 What may be deducted from the net estate? 9.6 Nominated property – I(PFD)A 1975, Section 8(1) 9.6.1 Insurance policies and pension schemes 9.7 Donatio mortis causa – I(PFD)A 1975, section 8(2) 9.7.1 What is donatio mortis causa? 9.8 Property held on joint tenancy – I(PFD)A 1975, section 9 9.8.1 Time limit 9.8.2 Meaning of ‘property’ 9.8.3 Severance 9.8.4 Circumstances in which an order will be considered 9.8.5 Criteria which will be applied 9.8.6 Facilitating the making of financial provision/and appears to be just 9.8.7 Meaning of ‘at the value thereof’ 9.9 Foreign property 9.9.1 Jurisdiction 9.9.2 Law of succession 9.9.3 EU Regulation 650/2012 10 DISPOSITIONS INTENDED TO DEFEAT FINANCIAL PROVISION 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Inter vivos disposition 10.2.1 Condition precedent for an order 10.2.2 Meaning of ‘disposition’ 10.2.3 Full valuable consideration 10.2.4 Intention of defeating a claim 10.2.5 Matters the court will take into consideration 10.2.6 Orders that can be made 10.2.7 Donee’s right to apply 10.3 Contracts to leave property by will 10.3.1 Condition precedent for an order 10.3.2 Contract 10.3.3 Intention to defeat a claim 10.3.4 Full valuable consideration 10.3.5 Matters to be considered by the court 10.3.6 Orders that can be made under I(PFD)A 1975, section 11 10.3.7 Where money has been paid 10.3.8 Where money has not been paid 10.3.9 Position of donee who is a trustee 10.3.10 Restrictions on the court’s powers 10.3.11 Rights of persons to enforce the contract 11 PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND TRUSTEES 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Liabilities under the I(PFD)A 1975 11.3 Protection afforded by I(PFD)A 1975, section 20 11.3.1 Responsibilities and duties after proceedings have been issued 11.4 Trustees 12 PROCEDURE 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Pre-action Protocol 12.3 Venue 12.4 Claim form 12.4.1 Contents 12.4.2 Time limits 12.4.3 Application under I(PFD)A 1975, section 9 for severance of joint tenancy 12.4.4 Application under I(PFD)A 1975, sections 10 and 11 to set aside transactions made by the deceased with the intention of defeating or reducing a claim under the Act 12.4.5 Claimants 12.4.6 Defendants 12.5 Claimant’s witness statements/affidavit 12.6 Party under disability 12.7 Service 12.8 Acknowledgement of service and defendant’s evidence 12.8.1 Position of personal representative who is a defendant 12.8.2 Other defendants 12.8.3 Claimant’s reply 12.9 Interlocutory matters, directions and case management 12.10 Disclosure 12.11 Attempts/offers to settle 12.11.1 CPR Part 36 offer 12.11.2 Calderbank offers 12.12 Hearing 12.13 Endorsement of memorandum on grant 12.14 Drawing up and service of orders 12.15 Subsequent applications 12.15.1 Procedural guide 13 APPEALS 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Permission to appeal 13.3 Route of appeal 13.4 Time limits 13.5 Stay of execution 13.6 Grounds of appeal 13.7 Procedure 13.7.1 Appellant’s notice 13.7.2 Amendment of appeal notice 13.7.3 Respondent’s notice 13.8 Procedural tables Appeal from a county court judge or High Court to the Court of Appeal Appeal to the Supreme Court APPENDICES Precedents A1 Application for a postal search of the probate records of England and Wales, Form PA1S A2 Example claims to be included in the Part 8 claim form A3 Witness statement by the claimant (a surviving spouse) A4 Witness statement of the personal representative A5 Witness statement by a cohabitant of the deceased A6 Witness statement of an adult person treated as a child of the family A7 Draft orders Legislation A8 Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 A9 Civil Procedure Rules, Part 57 – Probate and Inheritance, Extract A10 Civil Procedure Rules, Practice Direction 57 – Probate Practice Guidance A11 ACTAPS Practice Guidance for the Resolution of Probate and Trust Disputes (ACTAPS Code) Index

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