Book | 1st edition 2023 | Konrad Duden, Denise Wiedemann
What constitutes a “family” in Europe? The answer to this question is constantly changing and increasingly varied. This book addresses areas of family law where developments have been particularly salient and have, at times, created fissures between European States. It also suggests ways of addressing and overcoming these divergences.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Robin Fretwell Wilson, June Carbone
The International Survey of Family Law is the annual review of the International Society of Family Law. It brings together reliable and clearly structured insights into the latest and most notable developments in family law from all around the globe.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | Europe | Matteo Fornasier, Maria Gabriella Stanzione
The book explores, from a comparative perspective, the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights on a wide range of private law issues, including family law, data protection law, media law, copyright law, labour law as well as private international law and procedural law.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Jens M. Scherpe
This book canvasses the laws regarding surrogacy in Latin American jurisdictions, putting the legal developments into their historical and social contexts. It also categorises the approaches taken and compares them to developments around the globe.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom | Jacqueline Heaton, Aida Kemelmajer
This book presents comparative perspectives based on findings presented in National Reports on the theme 'Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family's Functions'. The contributions focus on whether, and if so, how, family law recognises that a child can have multiple parents, and which family functions are recognised and favoured by the law.
Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom, Europe, World | Nina Dethloff, Katharina Kaesling
This book addresses the pluralisation of family forms as an expression of the transformation of society and its normative foundations. Against a legal background, the development of diverse family concepts and practices is examined and the (severed) links between sexuality, gender and reproduction are explored.
This book focuses on the civil status validity of formalized relationships of same-sex couples when such couples move across borders between EU Member States. The Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, are used as examples of States that are less accommodating of same-sex relationships concluded abroad.
The Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings
Book | 1st edition 2022 | World | Katarina Trimmings, Anatol Dutta, Costanza Honorati, Mirela Zupan
This book addresses the issue of mothers who, fleeing from domestic violence, take their children with them and thus become liable for international child abduction. It examines how protection measures can help the abducting mother in this context, with a special focus on the utility of Regulation 606/2013 on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters and Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order, which allow cross-border circulation of protection measures.
Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Wendy Schrama, Marilyn Freeman, Nicola Taylor, Marielle Bruning
This topical and timely handbook provides a rich source of information for everyone with an interest in the application of children’s rights in practice.
Choice of Court and Choice of Law in Family Matters and Succession
Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Jacqueline Gray
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the choice of court and choice of law provisions that apply to cross-border family matters and succession in EU private international law.
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Elisabeth Alofs, Wendy Schrama
This book examines the legal and societal challenges facing ageing nations in Europe. With a focus on informal care, it poses the question of how, in light of historical and socio-demographic changes, we can take care of our elderly.
Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung des deutschen und englischen Rechts
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Saskia Constanze Zellerhoff
Ergründet die Verfasserin die aktuellen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für eine schiedsgerichtliche Beilegung familienrechtlicher Streitigkeiten im deutschen und englischen Recht und deren Bedeutung in der Praxis.
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Dieter Martiny
This volume contains the contributions delivered at CEFL's sixth international conference, which focused on comparative and international family law in Europe in their respective cultural contexts.
The CEFL has developed a comprehensive and original set of rules which may be a source of inspiration for legislating the rights and duties of couples who have not formalised their relationship. In their provisions on specific issues, the Principles opt for workable solutions which aim to avoid unnecessary hardship and disputes.
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Jehanne Sosson, Geoffrey Willems, Gwendoline Motte
Adults and Children in Postmodern Societies provides a critical analysis of the different ways in which the law can recognise and protect relationships between adults and children in postmodern societies which are characterised by increasingly diverse family configurations.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Jessica Palmer, Nicola Peart, Margaret Briggs, Mark Henaghan
This book addresses key questions about the division of property when a marriage, civil union, de facto relationship, or other close personal relationship ends. The book adopts a conceptual approach to property division, using New Zealand’s current law as a basis for critical analysis and drawing on international and comparative perspectives.
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Jens Scherpe, Andy Hayward
In this book, leading family law experts from 15 European and non-European countries present and explain the history and function of registered partnerships in their own family law systems as well as the role registered partnerships play under the ECHR and under EU law.
Book | 3rd edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Angelika Fuchs
The legal situation concerning same-sex couples is far from homogeneous in Europe. This book gives an overview of the formalisation and consequences of same-sex marriage and partnership all over Europe, discusses children’s rights in same-sex relationships and addresses the topic of gender identity.
Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zu Grund und Grenzen zeitgemäßen Unterhalts
Book | 1st edition 2017 | United Kingdom | Katharina Kaesling
Grundlage ist ein detaillierter Rechtsvergleich der französischen Ausgleichsleistung prestation compensatoire und des deutschen Geschiedenenunterhalts unter Berücksichtigung relevanter Bezüge zum Scheidungs- und Verfahrensrecht sowie gesellschaftlicher und familienpolitischer Rahmenbedingungen.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Caroline Cauffman, Jan Smits
In numerous fields of law, ranging from family law to company law, private actors increasingly set their own rules, revert to private enforcement of those rules and choose the applicable law.