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Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new families have been created. Borders have become more porous, allowing adoptees and mail order brides to join new families and women fleeing domestic violence to escape from old ones. People of different nationalities marry, have children, and divorce, not necessarily in that order. They file suits in their respective home states or third states, demanding support, custody, and property. Otherwise law-abiding parents risk jail in desperate efforts to abduct their own children from foreign ex-spouses.
The aim of this Handbook is to provide scholars, postgraduate students, judges, and practioners with a broad but authoritative review of current research in the area of International Family Law. The contributors reflect on a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions and their approaches vary. Each chapter has a distinct subject matter and was written by an author who was invited because of his or her expertise on that subject. This volume provides a valuable contribution to emerging understandings of the subject.
List of contents
Introduction Part I Marriage and Marriage-like Relationship 1. Marriage 2. LGBTQ Relationships 3. Customary Marriages Part II Divorce 4. Divorce 5. Post-divorce Maintenance for Spouses 6. Distribution of Property on Divorce 7. International Family Mediation: Recent Developments Part III Children 8. Child Custody and Cognate Concepts: The Challenges 9. Child Support 10. Adoption 11. Personal Relations and Contact Concerning Children Part IV Human Rights Within and Affecting the Family 12. Children's Rights within the Family 13. Reproductive Rights 14. Surrogacy 15. Father's Rights: Japan as a Different Paradigm Part V The Family and the State 16. Theories of Family Law and the State 17. Domestic Violence 18. Transnational Families - The Right to Family Life in the Age of Global Migration
About the author
Barbara Stark is Professor of Law and Hofstra Research Scholar at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where she teaches Family Law, International Law, Human Rights, and International Family Law.
Jacqueline Heaton is Professor of Law at the University of South Africa. She specialises in Family Law, Law of Persons, and Child Law.
Summary
This companion provides scholars and postgraduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research in the area of international family law. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the authors provide a concise but critical review of existing legal and informal regimes.
