Family Law Text, Cases, and Materials

An unrivalled collection, placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips. Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. The authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law, illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources. Key features - Combines a wide range of cases and materials with insightful explanation, commentary and analysis, creating a complete resource for students of family law - Features authoritative author commentary which engages with a range of theoretical and critical perspectives - Accompanying online resources provide regular updates on recent developments in family law, further reading suggestions, questions, and additional legal coverage - Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support New to this edition - Developments including the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, and the advent of mixed-sex civil partnership - Consideration of the Law Commission's proposed reform of weddings law, particularly in relation to non-qualifying ceremonies - A revised analysis of the Gillick competence and children's autonomy rights in light of recent case law - Updated case law, including HM Attorney General v Akhter and Khan [2020], Guest v Guest [2022], Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust [2021], and Re H-W (Care Proceedings) [2022] Digital formats and resources The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - The online resources that support the book include regular updates on the law, further reading suggestions, and questions for students to consider.

1 - Introduction to family law
2 - Family relationships between adults
3 - Ending relationships: divorce, dissolution, and separation
4 - Protection from domestic abuse
5 - Financial provision for children
6 - Financial remedies on divorce
7 - Property and finances when non-formalized relationships end
8 - Fundamental principles in the law relating to children
9 - Becoming a legal parent and the consequences of legal parenthood
10 - Parental responsibility
11 - Private disputes over children
12 - Child protection
13 - Adoption

Rob George is Professor of Law and Policy at University College London and a barrister at Harcourt Chambers. His research interests within the field focus on the family justice system and parenting disputes, with a particular specialism in international child law. Sharon Thompson is Reader in Law at Cardiff University. She researches the areas of adult relationships, financial remedies on divorce, prenuptial agreements, and the history of family law in the twentieth century, particularly focusing on feminist perspectives. Joanna Miles is Emerita Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where she was Professor of Family Law & Policy until autumn 2022. Her research interests include the legal regulation of adult relationships, family property law, and financial remedies on relationship breakdown and death.