Family Law

Family Law offers an engaging and debate-driven guide to the subject, with each chapter crafted by a team of highly experienced teachers writing on their specialist subject under the expert editorship of Ruth Lamont.

Each chapter is a superbly clear guide to the topic, structured around the key debates central to that topic, which are then explored in detail throughout the chapter. Students are thereby introduced to an enlightening range of perspectives on the key issues in family law today, allowing them to formulate their own opinions and arguments.

The social, economic, and political backdrop to each topic is also extensively discusssed to ensure that students' understanding is grounded in this essential context.

Family Law is a critical and modern guide to this dynamic subject.

Ruth Lamont, Senior Lecturer in Family and Child Law, University of Manchester

Ruth Lamont is a Senior Lecturer in Family and Child Law at the University of Manchester. She teaches Family Law, and her research has focused on the regulation of the family, children and the management of relationships across international borders in a modern and a historical context.

1. Family life and the law, Ruth Lamont
2. Relationships between adults: marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation, Andrew Hayward
3. Seeking a divorce, Edwina Higgins & Kathryn Newton
4. Property division on divorce, Polly Morgan
5. Property division on the breakdown of non-marital relationships, Warren Barr
6. Child support, Lara Walker
7. Domestic violence and abuse, Anna Carline & Roxanna Dehaghani
8. Legal parenthood and parental responsibility, Kirsty Horsey
9. Private child law, Annika Newnham
10. Public law protection, Penelope Russell
11. Adoption and special guardianship, Julie Doughty
12. Human rights, children's rights, and the family, Helen Stalford, Seamus Byrne, & Nazia Yaqub
13. International family law, Ruth Lamont
14. Family law in practice, Patrick Nicholls