Family Law

Family Law offers an engaging and debate-driven guide to the subject, with each chapter crafted by a team of highly experienced teachers writing on their specialist subject under the expert editorship of Ruth Lamont. Each chapter is a superbly clear guide to the topic, structured around the key debates central to that topic, which are then explored in detail throughout the chapter. Students are thereby introduced to an enlightening range of perspectives on the key issues in family law today, allowing them to formulate their own opinions and arguments. The social, economic, and political backdrop to each topic is also extensively discusssed to ensure that students' understanding is grounded in this essential context. Family Law is a critical and modern guide to this dynamic subject.

1 - Family life and the law
2 - Relationships between adults: marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation
3 - Seeking a divorce
4 - Property division on divorce
5 - Property division on the breakdown of non-marital relationships
6 - Child support
7 - Domestic violence and abuse
8 - Legal parenthood and parental responsibility
9 - Private child law
10 - Public law protection
11 - Adoption and special guardianship
12 - Human rights, children's rights, and the family
13 - International family law
14 - Family law in practice

Ruth Lamont is a Senior Lecturer in Family and Child Law at the University of Manchester. She teaches Family Law, and her research has focused on the regulation of the family, children and the management of relationships across international borders in a modern and a historical context.