Description
Book SynopsisHouse Rules takes a hard look at the law and norms governing family life, compelling readers to rethink entrenched inequalities in familial relationships and proposing ways to approach legislative solutions.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction / Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay
Part 1: Locating Norms
1 The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families / Allison Anna Tait
2 Identity Choices at the Intersections: The Inequality of Cross-Border Motherhood and What to Do about It / Chao-ju Chen
Part 2: Law’s Norms
3 Family Law as Expression: Financial Relief in the English Courts / Alison Diduck
4 The Complex Interrelationships of Financial and Child-Related Issues in Post-separation Disputes: Gender Matters / Rachel Treloar
Part 3: Norms’ Stickiness
5 Familial Ideology, Privatization, and Care Arrangements for Children in the Family Law and Child Protection Systems / Wanda Wiegers
6 Family, Gender, and the Public/Private Divide in the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act 1998 / Nicola Barker
Part 4: Measuring Norms
7 One Myth Leads to Another: From Ignorance of the Laws to the Presumption of Informed Choice among de Facto Spouses / Hélène Belleau
8 “WAR” and Other Reasons People Move In Together: Analyzing Cohabitating Relationship Progressions in British Columbia / Erez Aloni and Adam Vanzella-Yang
Part 5: Reforming Norms
9 Measuring Success of (Family) Law Reforms / Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay
10 Abolishing Family Law (as We Know It) / Brenda Cossman
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