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Author / Creator:Welstead, Mary.
Imprint:Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:xxxi, 372 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Core text series
Butterworths core text series.
Subject:Domestic relations -- England.
Domestic relations -- Wales.
Domestic relations.
England.
Wales.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5930758
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Other authors / contributors:Edwards, Susan S. M.
ISBN:0199282358
9780199282357
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The family and family law
  • 1. Introduction - family Law and its changing dimensions
  • Part 2. Adult relationships
  • 2. State intervention in personal relationships
  • 3. Nullity and its consequences
  • Part 3. Family property
  • 4. Acquisition of rights in the family home
  • Part 4. Relationship breakdown
  • 5. Domestic violence
  • 6. Ending relationships
  • 7. Financial consequences of ending relationships Part 1 and Part II
  • Part 5. Death of a partner
  • 8. Death and its consequences
  • Part 6. Parents
  • 9. Parents - rights and responsibilities
  • 10. From clean break - to open adoption
  • Part 7. Parents and children - private disputes
  • 11. Adolescent rights - autonomy and participation
  • 12. Children's welfare and private disputes
  • Part 8. Protecting children
  • 13. In the child's best interests - the jurisdiction of wardship
  • 14. Child protection - public law procedure
  • 15. Protecting children from 'significant harm' - interpreting the law - court orders
  • Part 9. Money matters
  • 16. Financial provision for children