1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of International Family Law
336 Pages
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Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction Part I Marriage and Marriage-like Relationship 1. Marriage, Maebh Harding 2. LGBTQ Relationships, Nicholas Bamforth 3. Customary Marriages, Thandabantu Nhlapo Part II Divorce 4. Divorce, Barbara Stark 5. Post-divorce Maintenance for Spouses, Geoffrey Shannon 6. Distribution of Property on Divorce, Bill Atkin 7. International Family Mediation: Recent Developments, Nuria Gonzalez-Martin Part III Children 8. Child Custody and Cognate Concepts: The Challenges, Elaine Sutherland 9. Child Support, Margaret F. Brinig 10. Adoption, Barbara Stark 11. Personal Relations and Contact Concerning Children, Frederik Swennen Part IV Human Rights Within and Affecting the Family 12. Children’s Rights within the Family, Geraldine Van Bueren 13. Reproductive Rights, Rachael Rebouche 14. Surrogacy, Dr. Phillipp Reuss 15. Father’s Rights: Japan as a Different Paradigm, Colin Jones Part V The Family and the State 16. Theories of Family Law and the State, Aziza Ahmed 17. Domestic Violence, Rashida Manjoo 18. Transnational Families – The Right to Family Life in the Age of Global Migration, Edit Frenyó
Biography
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.
