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Provides a comprehensive, critical, and case-focused introduction to family law.
Hayes & Williams' Family Law helps students to gain a firm understanding of family law principles, the developing law, and key reform debates.
List of contents
- Part 1: Adult Family Law
- 1: The formation of adult relationships
- 2: The dissolution of adult relationships
- 3: Protection from domestic violence and occupation of the family home
- 4: Money and property distribution on marriage breakdown
- 5: Property disputes of unmarried cohabitants on relationship breakdown
- Part 2: Child Family Law
- 6: Financial support for children
- 7: A child's parents - parentage, parenthood and parental responsibility
- 8: Children's rights
- 9: Private law disputes and issues in children cases
- 10: Children needing services, care, and protection
- 11: Adoption and special guardianship
About the author
Stephen Gilmore is Professor of Family Law at King's College London and a Barrister at Lincoln's Inn. His research interests include parental responsibility, post-separation parenting, and children's rights.
Lisa Glennon is an independent legal researcher, author, and former Lecturer in Law at Queen's University, Belfast.
Summary
Provides a comprehensive, critical, and case-focused introduction to family law. Hayes & Williams' Family Law helps students to gain a firm understanding of family law principles, the developing law, and key reform debates.
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In a subject swamped by good books, this stands out for its student-friendliness. It clarifies, enlightens and even entertains. It can be recommended as an undergraduate textbook without question.
