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Family Law Joanna Miles (Reader in Family Law & Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge)

Family Law By Joanna Miles (Reader in Family Law & Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge)

Summary

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.

Family Law Summary

Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Joanna Miles (Reader in Family Law & Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge)

Placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips, Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources. The book has two principal aims: to provide readers with a thorough understanding of the law relating to the family, and to stimulate critical reflection on that law. Readers are encouraged to consider how and why the law has developed as it has, what policies it is seeking to pursue, whether it achieves the right balance between the rights and interests of individual family members and the wider public interest, and how it operates in practice. Digital formats and resources The fourth 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.

Family Law Reviews

"A comprehensive, student-friendly text. Approachable material written in an engaging way." * Polly Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia *
"This book goes one step further by providing a deeper analysis." * Zanele Nyoni, Lecturer in Law, University of Central Lancashire *

About Joanna Miles (Reader in Family Law & Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge)

Joanna Miles is Reader in Family Law & Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests within the field include the legal regulation of adult relationships, family property law, and financial remedies on relationship breakdown and death. Rob George is Associate Professor of Family Law 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. Sonia Harris-Short is a former Professor of Law, University of Birmingham and the former Head of CEPLER.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction to family law 2: Family relationships between adults 3: Ending relationships: divorce and separation 4: 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

Additional information

GOR010480348
9780198811848
0198811845
Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Joanna Miles (Reader in Family Law & Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2019-07-19
1136
N/A
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