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This best-selling textbook is loved by students and lecturers alike. Offering exceptional coverage of all key family law principles, this book also explores the theories, debates and ethical dilemmas which underpin the subject ensuring you have the knowledge required to critique the existing law and evaluate reform options.
List of contents
Brief Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of cases
Table of statutes
1 What is family law?
2 Family justice
3 Marriage, civil partnership and cohabitation
4 Divorce
5 Family property
6 Property on separation
7 Domestic abuse
8 Who is a parent?
9 Parents’ and children’s rights
10 Private disputes over children
11 Child protection
12 Families and older people
Bibliography and further reading
Index
About the author
Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at Exeter College, Oxford.
Summary
This best-selling textbook is loved by students and lecturers alike. Offering exceptional coverage of all key family law principles, this book also explores the theories, debates and ethical dilemmas which underpin the subject ensuring you have the knowledge required to critique the existing law and evaluate reform options.
