Routledge Handbook of International Family Law

ISBN-13: 9781032093826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Jacqueline Heaton

Opis

This companion provides scholars and postgraduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research in the area of international family law. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the authors provide a concise but critical review of existing legal and informal regimes.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I Marriage and Marriage-like Relationship  1. Marriage  2. LGBTQ Relationships  3. Customary Marriages  Part II Divorce  4. Divorce  5. Post-divorce Maintenance for Spouses  6. Distribution of Property on Divorce  7. International Family Mediation: Recent Developments  Part III Children  8. Child Custody and Cognate Concepts: The Challenges  9. Child Support  10. Adoption  11. Personal Relations and Contact Concerning Children  Part IV Human Rights Within and Affecting the Family  12. Children’s Rights within the Family  13. Reproductive Rights  14. Surrogacy  15. Father’s Rights: Japan as a Different Paradigm  Part V The Family and the State  16. Theories of Family Law and the State  17. Domestic Violence  18. Transnational Families – The Right to Family Life in the Age of Global Migration 

O autorze

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.