Family Law.

By: Burton, FrancesMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: �2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (515 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781136292484Subject(s): Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England.;Domestic relations -- EnglandGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Family LawDDC classification: 346.4201/5;346.42015 LOC classification: KD750 .B87 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Front Cover -- Family Law -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Statutory Instruments -- Table of EU Legislation -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: What is Contemporary Family Law? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The changing face of family law -- 1.3 How family law differs from other civil litigation -- 1.4 The function of family law -- 1.5 Family law and human rights -- 1.6 Current debates -- 1.7 Summary of Chapter 1 -- 1.8 Further reading -- 2. Marriage -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Marriage: a status -- 2.3 Grounds on which a marriage will be void -- 2.4 The effect of a void marriage -- 2.5 Grounds on which a marriage will be voidable -- 2.6 Current debates -- 2.7 Summary of Chapter 2 -- 2.8 Further reading -- 3. Nullity -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Annulling voidable marriages -- 3.3 Nullity -- 3.4 Grounds on which a marriage will be voidable -- 3.5 Bars to a nullity decree -- 3.6 Relationship between nullity and divorce -- 3.7 Current debates -- 3.8 Summary of Chapter 3 -- 3.9 Further reading -- 4. Divorce: The Theoretical Background -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Origins of English divorce law and its impact on the underlying theory -- 4.3 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857: divorce and judicial separation -- 4.4 Early twentieth-century reform -- 4.5 The Divorce Reform Act 1969 -- 4.6 Current initiatives -- 4.7 Overview of the current law: the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 -- 4.8 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 in practice -- 4.9 Terminology in divorce suits -- 4.10 Jurisdiction -- 4.11 The first year of marriage: the absolute bar on divorce -- 4.12 Alternatives during the first year -- 4.13 The relationship between divorce, financial and child proceedings -- 4.14 Current debates -- 4.15 Summary of Chapter 4 -- 4.16 Further reading -- 5. Divorce: The Contemporary Process -- 5.1 Introduction.
5.2 The ground for divorce and 'the five Facts' -- 5.3 Proof of the ground in s 1(1) -- 5.4 Adultery: Fact A -- 5.5 Behaviour: Fact B -- 5.6 The importance of drafting in an effective petition -- 5.7 Desertion and constructive desertion: Fact C -- 5.8 The separation decrees: Facts D and E -- 5.9 Two years' separation with the respondent's consent: Fact D -- 5.10 Five years' separation: Fact E -- 5.11 How the statute works in practice -- 5.12 Financial protection for reluctant respondents to Fact D and E petitions -- 5.13 Other decrees: judicial separation and presumption of death and dissolution of the marriage: MCA 1973 ss 17 and 19 -- 5.14 Current debates -- 5.15 Summary of Chapter 5 -- 5.16 Further reading -- 6. Divorce: Marital Agreements, Collaborative Law, Mediation, Family Arbitration -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Marital agreements -- 6.3 Collaborative law -- 6.4 Mediation -- 6.5 Family arbitration -- 6.6 Tentative conclusions -- 6.7 Current debates -- 6.8 Summary of Chapter 6 -- 6.9 Further reading -- 7. Ancillary Relief -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Orders which the court may make -- 7.3 The court's discretionary jurisdiction -- 7.4 Applying for ancillary relief -- 7.5 The s 25 factors, s 25A and the ideal of spousal self-sufficiency -- 7.6 The court's considerations in exercising its discretion: MCA 1973 s 25(2)(b)-(h) -- 7.7 The clean break: MCA 1973 s 25A -- 7.8 Clean break options -- 7.9 Quantum of orders - calculating spouse maintenance -- 7.10 Variation -- 7.11 Appeals out of time -- 7.12 Varying Mesher orders -- 7.13 Preventing evasion of liability or enforcement of orders -- 7.14 The matrimonial home: the policy of homes for all -- 7.15 Current debates -- 7.16 Summary of Chapter 7 -- 7.17 Further reading -- 8. Civil Partnership -- 8.1 Introduction and background theory -- 8.2 Formation of civil partnerships.
8.3 Dissolution of civil partnerships -- 8.4 Distinction between marriage and civil partnership -- 8.5 Current debates -- 8.6 Summary of Chapter 8 -- 8.7 Further reading -- 9. Cohabitation -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Current initiatives -- 9.3 Property disputes -- 9.4 Maintenance of the partner in life -- 9.5 Maintenance of the partner after death -- 9.6 Maintenance of children -- 9.7 Parental responsibility -- 9.8 Cohabitation contracts -- 9.9 Proposals for reform -- 9.10 Other discrimination -- 9.11 Current debates -- 9.12 Summary of Chapter 9 -- 9.13 Further reading -- 10. Financial Support Without Decree -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 in the Family Proceedings Court -- 10.3 Orders under the DPMCA 1978 s 2 -- 10.4 Agreed orders under the DPMCA 1978 s 6 -- 10.5 Orders under the DPMCA 1978 s 7 to continue voluntary payments made during separation -- 10.6 Procedure -- 10.7 Variation -- 10.8 Enforcement -- 10.9 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 s 27 -- 10.10 Separation and maintenance agreements -- 10.11 Which remedy? -- 10.12 Current debates -- 10.13 Summary of Chapter 10 -- 10.14 Further reading -- 11. Domestic Violence and Forced Marriage -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Rights of occupation of the home of spouses or civil partners -- 11.3 Domestic violence injunctions -- 11.4 Occupation orders -- 11.5 Procedure -- 11.6 Transfer of tenancies -- 11.7 Forced marriage -- 11.8 Current debates -- 11.9 Summary of Chapter 11 -- 11.10 Further reading -- 12. The Children Act 1989 -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The general principles: CA 1989 s 1 -- 12.3 Parental responsibility -- 12.4 Current debates -- 12.5 Summary of Chapter 12 -- 12.6 Further reading -- 13. Parentage and Parental Responsibility Through Human Assisted Reproduction and DNA Testing -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Essential terminology.
13.3 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 -- 13.4 Who is the mother? -- 13.5 Who is the father? -- 13.6 Posthumous parentage -- 13.7 Destroying embryos and foetuses -- 13.8 Surrogacy -- 13.9 Parental orders -- 13.10 Parentage established by DNA testing -- 13.11 Directing tests -- 13.12 Current debates -- 13.13 Summary of Chapter 13 -- 13.14 Further reading -- 14. Children's Rights, Autonomy and Medical Treatment -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The theory of children's rights -- 14.3 Medical treatment -- 14.4 Current debates -- 14.5 Summary of Chapter 14 -- 14.6 Further reading -- 15. The Child's Welfare -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Welfare and the exercise of judicial discretion -- 15.3 The welfare checklist: CA 1989 s 1(3) -- 15.4 Current debates -- 15.5 Summary of Chapter 15 -- 15.6 Further reading -- 16. Section 8 Orders -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 The portfolio of orders under s 8 -- 16.3 Interim orders -- 16.4 Enforcement of orders -- 16.5 Who may apply for s 8 orders? -- 16.6 The family assistance order: s 16 -- 16.7 Change of name or removal from the jurisdiction: s 13(1) -- 16.8 Current debates -- 16.9 Summary of Chapter 16 -- 16.10 Further reading -- 17. Making Contact Orders Work -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Addressing contact problems -- 17.3 Current debates -- 17.4 Summary of Chapter 17 -- 17.5 Further reading -- 18. International Abduction and Relocation -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Child Abduction Act 1984 -- 18.3 Dealing with abduction if prevention fails -- 18.4 Defences -- 18.5 The European Convention -- 18.6 Non-Convention cases -- 18.7 Which Convention? -- 18.8 Relocation -- 18.9 Current debates -- 18.10 Summary of Chapter 18 -- 18.11 Further reading -- 19. Child Protection: Wardship, the Inherent Jurisdiction and the Children Acts in Public and Private Law -- 19.1 Introduction.
19.2 The relationship of wardship and the inherent jurisdiction to the Children Act 1989 -- 19.3 State intervention in the family -- 19.4 Current debates -- 19.5 Summary of Chapter 19 -- 19.6 Further reading -- 20. Care, Supervision and Protection Orders -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 The new approach of Parts III to V of the Children Act 1989 -- 20.3 The local authority's duty to accommodate: s 20 -- 20.4 Formal care orders: CA 1989 s 31 -- 20.5 Supervision orders: s 35, as an alternative to care -- 20.6 Emergency orders: ss 43 and 44 -- 20.7 Children Act procedure -- 20.8 Evidence -- 20.9 Current debates -- 20.10 Summary of Chapter 20 -- 20.11 Further reading -- 21. Financial Provision for Children -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 The dual CSA-court application system -- 21.3 Child Support Acts 1991 to 1995 as amended -- 21.4 Reform of the CSA regime -- 21.5 The future settlement of child maintenance -- 21.6 Child maintenance and provision under the Children Act 1989 -- 21.7 Current debates -- 21.8 Summary of Chapter 21 -- 21.9 Further reading -- 22. Adoption -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 General provisions of adoption law -- 22.3 Who can adopt and be adopted -- 22.4 Arranging adoptions -- 22.5 Parental agreement to adoption -- 22.6 The placement order replacing 'freeing for adoption' -- 22.7 Adoption orders with conditions -- 22.8 Effects of adoption -- 22.9 Special guardianship -- 22.10 Current debates -- 22.11 Summary of Chapter 22 -- 22.12 Further reading -- Index.
Summary: Family Law is an accessible, student-friendly textbook which provides a comprehensive foundation in the key topics covered by undergraduate and CPE/GDL courses. Written with clarity, Family Law offers an introduction not just to the black-letter law but also to the social, economic and historical developments that have helped to shape it, considering key academic debates and areas of controversy at the end of each chapter. Authored by a highly experienced lecturer, Family Law is structured in two parts around family law and child law, the framing areas of the common syllabus. Developed with all the latest legislative developments and case law in mind, including the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, R (A child) [2009], Radmacher v Granatino [2009] and Re AR (A Child: Relocation) [2010], this is the ideal textbook for all students of family or child law today. Student-friendly features include: outline contents at the beginning of each chapter which provide students with a context as they read bulleted summaries at the end of each chapter which highlight and reinforce the key concepts further reading lists which point students towards contemporary sources for more detailed study an introduction to the key academic debates and areas of controversy, helping students to deepen their critical evaluation of the subject a free Companion Website, which offers students the opportunity to test their own understanding and apply their knowledge to a set of hypothetical problem-based questions. In addition, revision podcasts will prove invaluable as exam time approaches.
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Front Cover -- Family Law -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Statutory Instruments -- Table of EU Legislation -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: What is Contemporary Family Law? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The changing face of family law -- 1.3 How family law differs from other civil litigation -- 1.4 The function of family law -- 1.5 Family law and human rights -- 1.6 Current debates -- 1.7 Summary of Chapter 1 -- 1.8 Further reading -- 2. Marriage -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Marriage: a status -- 2.3 Grounds on which a marriage will be void -- 2.4 The effect of a void marriage -- 2.5 Grounds on which a marriage will be voidable -- 2.6 Current debates -- 2.7 Summary of Chapter 2 -- 2.8 Further reading -- 3. Nullity -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Annulling voidable marriages -- 3.3 Nullity -- 3.4 Grounds on which a marriage will be voidable -- 3.5 Bars to a nullity decree -- 3.6 Relationship between nullity and divorce -- 3.7 Current debates -- 3.8 Summary of Chapter 3 -- 3.9 Further reading -- 4. Divorce: The Theoretical Background -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Origins of English divorce law and its impact on the underlying theory -- 4.3 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857: divorce and judicial separation -- 4.4 Early twentieth-century reform -- 4.5 The Divorce Reform Act 1969 -- 4.6 Current initiatives -- 4.7 Overview of the current law: the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 -- 4.8 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 in practice -- 4.9 Terminology in divorce suits -- 4.10 Jurisdiction -- 4.11 The first year of marriage: the absolute bar on divorce -- 4.12 Alternatives during the first year -- 4.13 The relationship between divorce, financial and child proceedings -- 4.14 Current debates -- 4.15 Summary of Chapter 4 -- 4.16 Further reading -- 5. Divorce: The Contemporary Process -- 5.1 Introduction.

5.2 The ground for divorce and 'the five Facts' -- 5.3 Proof of the ground in s 1(1) -- 5.4 Adultery: Fact A -- 5.5 Behaviour: Fact B -- 5.6 The importance of drafting in an effective petition -- 5.7 Desertion and constructive desertion: Fact C -- 5.8 The separation decrees: Facts D and E -- 5.9 Two years' separation with the respondent's consent: Fact D -- 5.10 Five years' separation: Fact E -- 5.11 How the statute works in practice -- 5.12 Financial protection for reluctant respondents to Fact D and E petitions -- 5.13 Other decrees: judicial separation and presumption of death and dissolution of the marriage: MCA 1973 ss 17 and 19 -- 5.14 Current debates -- 5.15 Summary of Chapter 5 -- 5.16 Further reading -- 6. Divorce: Marital Agreements, Collaborative Law, Mediation, Family Arbitration -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Marital agreements -- 6.3 Collaborative law -- 6.4 Mediation -- 6.5 Family arbitration -- 6.6 Tentative conclusions -- 6.7 Current debates -- 6.8 Summary of Chapter 6 -- 6.9 Further reading -- 7. Ancillary Relief -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Orders which the court may make -- 7.3 The court's discretionary jurisdiction -- 7.4 Applying for ancillary relief -- 7.5 The s 25 factors, s 25A and the ideal of spousal self-sufficiency -- 7.6 The court's considerations in exercising its discretion: MCA 1973 s 25(2)(b)-(h) -- 7.7 The clean break: MCA 1973 s 25A -- 7.8 Clean break options -- 7.9 Quantum of orders - calculating spouse maintenance -- 7.10 Variation -- 7.11 Appeals out of time -- 7.12 Varying Mesher orders -- 7.13 Preventing evasion of liability or enforcement of orders -- 7.14 The matrimonial home: the policy of homes for all -- 7.15 Current debates -- 7.16 Summary of Chapter 7 -- 7.17 Further reading -- 8. Civil Partnership -- 8.1 Introduction and background theory -- 8.2 Formation of civil partnerships.

8.3 Dissolution of civil partnerships -- 8.4 Distinction between marriage and civil partnership -- 8.5 Current debates -- 8.6 Summary of Chapter 8 -- 8.7 Further reading -- 9. Cohabitation -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Current initiatives -- 9.3 Property disputes -- 9.4 Maintenance of the partner in life -- 9.5 Maintenance of the partner after death -- 9.6 Maintenance of children -- 9.7 Parental responsibility -- 9.8 Cohabitation contracts -- 9.9 Proposals for reform -- 9.10 Other discrimination -- 9.11 Current debates -- 9.12 Summary of Chapter 9 -- 9.13 Further reading -- 10. Financial Support Without Decree -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 in the Family Proceedings Court -- 10.3 Orders under the DPMCA 1978 s 2 -- 10.4 Agreed orders under the DPMCA 1978 s 6 -- 10.5 Orders under the DPMCA 1978 s 7 to continue voluntary payments made during separation -- 10.6 Procedure -- 10.7 Variation -- 10.8 Enforcement -- 10.9 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 s 27 -- 10.10 Separation and maintenance agreements -- 10.11 Which remedy? -- 10.12 Current debates -- 10.13 Summary of Chapter 10 -- 10.14 Further reading -- 11. Domestic Violence and Forced Marriage -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Rights of occupation of the home of spouses or civil partners -- 11.3 Domestic violence injunctions -- 11.4 Occupation orders -- 11.5 Procedure -- 11.6 Transfer of tenancies -- 11.7 Forced marriage -- 11.8 Current debates -- 11.9 Summary of Chapter 11 -- 11.10 Further reading -- 12. The Children Act 1989 -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The general principles: CA 1989 s 1 -- 12.3 Parental responsibility -- 12.4 Current debates -- 12.5 Summary of Chapter 12 -- 12.6 Further reading -- 13. Parentage and Parental Responsibility Through Human Assisted Reproduction and DNA Testing -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Essential terminology.

13.3 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 -- 13.4 Who is the mother? -- 13.5 Who is the father? -- 13.6 Posthumous parentage -- 13.7 Destroying embryos and foetuses -- 13.8 Surrogacy -- 13.9 Parental orders -- 13.10 Parentage established by DNA testing -- 13.11 Directing tests -- 13.12 Current debates -- 13.13 Summary of Chapter 13 -- 13.14 Further reading -- 14. Children's Rights, Autonomy and Medical Treatment -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The theory of children's rights -- 14.3 Medical treatment -- 14.4 Current debates -- 14.5 Summary of Chapter 14 -- 14.6 Further reading -- 15. The Child's Welfare -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Welfare and the exercise of judicial discretion -- 15.3 The welfare checklist: CA 1989 s 1(3) -- 15.4 Current debates -- 15.5 Summary of Chapter 15 -- 15.6 Further reading -- 16. Section 8 Orders -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 The portfolio of orders under s 8 -- 16.3 Interim orders -- 16.4 Enforcement of orders -- 16.5 Who may apply for s 8 orders? -- 16.6 The family assistance order: s 16 -- 16.7 Change of name or removal from the jurisdiction: s 13(1) -- 16.8 Current debates -- 16.9 Summary of Chapter 16 -- 16.10 Further reading -- 17. Making Contact Orders Work -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Addressing contact problems -- 17.3 Current debates -- 17.4 Summary of Chapter 17 -- 17.5 Further reading -- 18. International Abduction and Relocation -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Child Abduction Act 1984 -- 18.3 Dealing with abduction if prevention fails -- 18.4 Defences -- 18.5 The European Convention -- 18.6 Non-Convention cases -- 18.7 Which Convention? -- 18.8 Relocation -- 18.9 Current debates -- 18.10 Summary of Chapter 18 -- 18.11 Further reading -- 19. Child Protection: Wardship, the Inherent Jurisdiction and the Children Acts in Public and Private Law -- 19.1 Introduction.

19.2 The relationship of wardship and the inherent jurisdiction to the Children Act 1989 -- 19.3 State intervention in the family -- 19.4 Current debates -- 19.5 Summary of Chapter 19 -- 19.6 Further reading -- 20. Care, Supervision and Protection Orders -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 The new approach of Parts III to V of the Children Act 1989 -- 20.3 The local authority's duty to accommodate: s 20 -- 20.4 Formal care orders: CA 1989 s 31 -- 20.5 Supervision orders: s 35, as an alternative to care -- 20.6 Emergency orders: ss 43 and 44 -- 20.7 Children Act procedure -- 20.8 Evidence -- 20.9 Current debates -- 20.10 Summary of Chapter 20 -- 20.11 Further reading -- 21. Financial Provision for Children -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 The dual CSA-court application system -- 21.3 Child Support Acts 1991 to 1995 as amended -- 21.4 Reform of the CSA regime -- 21.5 The future settlement of child maintenance -- 21.6 Child maintenance and provision under the Children Act 1989 -- 21.7 Current debates -- 21.8 Summary of Chapter 21 -- 21.9 Further reading -- 22. Adoption -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 General provisions of adoption law -- 22.3 Who can adopt and be adopted -- 22.4 Arranging adoptions -- 22.5 Parental agreement to adoption -- 22.6 The placement order replacing 'freeing for adoption' -- 22.7 Adoption orders with conditions -- 22.8 Effects of adoption -- 22.9 Special guardianship -- 22.10 Current debates -- 22.11 Summary of Chapter 22 -- 22.12 Further reading -- Index.

Family Law is an accessible, student-friendly textbook which provides a comprehensive foundation in the key topics covered by undergraduate and CPE/GDL courses. Written with clarity, Family Law offers an introduction not just to the black-letter law but also to the social, economic and historical developments that have helped to shape it, considering key academic debates and areas of controversy at the end of each chapter. Authored by a highly experienced lecturer, Family Law is structured in two parts around family law and child law, the framing areas of the common syllabus. Developed with all the latest legislative developments and case law in mind, including the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, R (A child) [2009], Radmacher v Granatino [2009] and Re AR (A Child: Relocation) [2010], this is the ideal textbook for all students of family or child law today. Student-friendly features include: outline contents at the beginning of each chapter which provide students with a context as they read bulleted summaries at the end of each chapter which highlight and reinforce the key concepts further reading lists which point students towards contemporary sources for more detailed study an introduction to the key academic debates and areas of controversy, helping students to deepen their critical evaluation of the subject a free Companion Website, which offers students the opportunity to test their own understanding and apply their knowledge to a set of hypothetical problem-based questions. In addition, revision podcasts will prove invaluable as exam time approaches.

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