Family Law in Context provides a comprehensive yet accessible foundational text supporting students and lecturers in meeting the learning outcomes of child and family law modules across universities and colleges in Ireland.
By utilizing socio-legal principles as the theoretical underpinnings to each chapter, the contributors offer novel perspectives on how diverse societies across the globe shape family law and ways in which norms within family law may be changed over time.
How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would assist children and families. But the ......
Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era
The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. However, the voices of Indigenous parents were largely missing from the Report.
Most of us don’t want to think about estate planning, about what it would be like if we weren’t here to take care of our loved ones. As a business owner or entrepreneur, you have worked hard for your success and wealth, and this has helped ensure your loved ones are cared for. But what would happen if you became incapacitated or died?
How would ......
How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in ......
How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in ......
Bridges family law and current psychological research to shape understanding of legal doctrine and policy Family law encompasses legislation related to domestic relationships-marriages, parenthood, civil unions, guardianship, and more. No other area of law touches so closely to home, or is changing at such a rapid pace-in fact, family law is ......
Bridges family law and current psychological research to shape understanding of legal doctrine and policy Family law encompasses legislation related to domestic relationships-marriages, parenthood, civil unions, guardianship, and more. No other area of law touches so closely to home, or is changing at such a rapid pace-in fact, family law is so ......
Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses
A look at gun control, campus sexual assault, immigration, and more that considers the future of responses to domestic violence Domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, with politicians of all stripes claiming to work to end family violence. Nevertheless, the Violence Against Women Act expired for over 500 ......
Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses
A look at gun control, campus sexual assault, immigration, and more that considers the future of responses to domestic violence Domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, with politicians of all stripes claiming to work to end family violence. Nevertheless, the Violence Against Women Act expired for over 500 ......
This practical career guide is the first book written specifically for professional counsellors on how to provide services to the family court system, a growing and lucrative field of practise. Written by a professional counsellor with over 20 years of experience, it discusses the roles of counsellors in family court and provides step-by-step ......
Parenting coordination is a collaborative effort between psychologists and legal professionals that helps divorcing parents avoid further litigation while working together in the best interests of their child. This one-stop text contains all the information legal and mental health providers need to manage high-conflict custody disputes outside ......
The text offers up-to-date research, a practical guide for training, service provision, and references to relevant research for quality parenting coordination practice. Specifically, this book describes the integrated model of Parenting Coordination, including the Parent Coordinator's professional role, responsibilities, protocol for service, and ......
Addresses key topics in child custody evaluation. This book describes data-based approaches to understanding and assessing relevant child, parent, and family factors. Going beyond the basics, it gives in-depth attention to issues like, how to evaluate allegations of domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and child alienation.
A Survivor-centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice
Presents a multidisciplinary look at society's responses to domestic violence. Though substantial reforms have been made in the services available to battered women since the 1970s, this book shows how the public and private systems available to victims of domestic violence are still failing to meet the needs of the women who seek help.
Envisions a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are the legal consequences associated with marriage.
Discussing the benefits of improving procedural justice in divorce cases, this book scrutinizes how the family law system measures up in terms of criteria based in social sciences. It weaves in insights drawn from the social sciences literature and reflections on how psychology might best serve clients struggling with divorce.
Examines marriage, familial gender relations, and the law through the lens of elopement notices. In conjunction with legal treatises, court records, and prescriptive literature, this book highlights the tenuous relationships among marriage law, marital ideals, and lived experience in the early Republic, an era of cultural and economic change.
Law, Technology, and Reproduction in An Uneasy Age
Who are the real parents of a child? What are the relationships and responsibilities between a child, the woman who carried it to term, and the egg donor? This book charts the response of the law to modern reproductive technology as it transforms our image of the family and is itself transformed by the tide of social forces.
A Divorced Father's Struggle With the Child Custody Industry
Exposes a twisted legal system, its obvious abuses of civil rights, and indifferent courts that subject caring fathers across the nation to vengeful ex-wives, opportunistic psychologists and psychiatrists, and overzealous attorneys. This book argues that all fathers should not be viewed as deadbeat dads who shirk their responsibilities.
Law, Technology, and Reproduction in An Uneasy Age
Who are the real parents of a child? What are the relationships and responsibilities between a child, the woman who carried it to term, and the egg donor? Between viable sperm and the wife of a dead donor? Should these cases be decided in light of laws governing contracts and property? This title deals with these questions.
This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the ......
