Family law
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Short description: Area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations
Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.[1]
Overview
Subjects that commonly fall under a nation's body of family law include:
- Marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships:
- Entry into legally recognized spousal and domestic relationships[1]
- The termination of legally recognized family relationships and ancillary matters, including divorce, annulment, property settlements, alimony, child custody and visitation, child support and alimony awards[2]
- Prenuptial and Postnuptial agreements
- Adoption: proceedings to adopt a child and, in some cases, an adult.[3]
- Surrogacy: the law and process of giving birth as a surrogate mother[4]
- Child protective proceedings: court proceedings that may result from state intervention in cases of child abuse and child neglect[5]
- Juvenile law: Matters relating to minors including status offenses, delinquency, emancipation and juvenile adjudication[6]
- Paternity: proceedings to establish and disestablish paternity, and the administration of paternity testing[7]
- Rights: Children's rights, Youth rights, Mothers' rights, Fathers' rights, Parents' rights, Right to family life
This list is not exhaustive and varies depending on jurisdiction.
Conflict of laws
Issues may arise in family law where there is a question as to the laws of the jurisdiction that apply to the marriage relationship or to custody and divorce, and whether a divorce or child custody order is recognized under the laws of another jurisdiction.[8][9][10][11] For child custody, many nations have joined the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in order to grant recognition to other member states' custody orders and avoid issues of parental kidnapping.[12]
By jurisdiction
- Algerian Family Code
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Australian family law
- Family Law Act (Canada)
- Burmese customary law
- Matrimonial law in the Catholic Church
- Family law system in England and Wales
- Children Act of 1989
- Malian Family Code
- Mudawana, the Moroccan Family Code
- The Philippines' Family Code of 1987
- Nashim, the order of the Mishnah outlining Jewish family law
See also
- Alimony
- Child custody
- Child support
- Cohabitation
- Divorce
- Family
- Family court
- Legal separation
- Legitimacy (family law)
- Marriage
- Merger doctrine (family law)
- Shared parenting
- Supervised visitation
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Atkinson, Jeff. "ABA Family Legal Guide". https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/publiced/practical/books/family/chapter_3.authcheckdam.pdf.
- ↑ Weitzman, Lenore J. (1980). "The Economics of Divorce: Social and Economic Consequences of Property, Alimony and Child Support Awards". UCLA Law Review 28: 1181. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr28&div=53&id=&page=. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ↑ Wadlington, Walter (1980–1981). "Adoption of Adults a Family Law Anomaly". Cornell Law Review 54: 566. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr28&div=53&id=&page=. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ↑ Capron, A.M.; Radin, M.J. (1988). "Choosing Family Law over Contract Law as a Paradigm for Surrogate Motherhood". Law, Medicine & Health Care 16 (1–2): 34–43. doi:10.1111/j.1748-720X.1988.tb01048.x. PMID 3060684.
- ↑ Lawrie, Moloney; Smyth, Bruce M.; Weston, Ruth; Richardson, Nich; Qu, Lixia; Gray, Matthew (2007). "Allegations of family violence and child abuse in family law children's proceedings: key findings of Australian Institute of Family Studies Research Report No. 15". Family Matters 77. https://aifs.gov.au/publications/family-matters/issue-77/allegations-family-violence-and-child-abuse-family-law-childrens-proceedings. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ↑ Babb, Barbara A. (1998). "Fashioning an interdisciplinary framework for court reform in family law: A blueprint to construct a unified family court". Southern California Law Review 71: 469. http://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=all_fac. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ↑ Lee, Chang Ling (1975). "Current Status of Paternity Testing". Family Law Quarterly 9 (4): 615–633.
- ↑ Currie, David P. (1966). "Suitcase Divorce in the Conflict of Laws: Simons, Rosenstiel, and Borax". The University of Chicago Law Review 34 (1): 26–77. doi:10.2307/1598624. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6072&context=journal_articles.
- ↑ "Family law | Definition, Examples, Types, & Facts | Britannica" (in en). 2024-05-23. https://www.britannica.com/topic/family-law.
- ↑ "legal practice areas Family Law. The University of Law". https://www.law.ac.uk/employability/legal-practice-areas/family-law/.
- ↑ Ahmady, Kameel Et al 2017: Echo of Silence (book) (A Comprehensive Research Study on Early Child Marriage (ECM) in Iran). Nova publishing, USA. p 10.
- ↑ "International Parental Kidnapping". 3 June 2015. https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/international-parental-kidnapping.
Further reading
- David Bradley. ‘Family law’, in Elgar encyclopedia of comparative law, 3rd edn. Vol. 2: E-L. Eds. Jan M. Smits et al. Cheltenham/Northampton, M.A.: Edward Elgar, 2023.
- Elizabeth Brake & Lucinda Ferguson, eds. Philosophical foundations of children's and family law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Aleck Chloros, Max Rheinstein, & Mary Ann Glendon, eds. International encyclopedia of comparative law, vol. 4: Persons and family. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.
- Shazia Choudhry & Jonathan Herring, eds. The Cambridge companion to comparative family law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- John Eekelaar. Family law and personal life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Finer, Sir Morris (1974). Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families: presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Services by command of Her Majesty July 1974. H.M.S.O.. ISBN 9780101562911. https://books.google.com/books?id=I-ItAQAAIAAJ.
- Marsha Garrison. Family life, family law, and family justice: tying the knot. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.
- Laurence D. Houlgate. Philosophy, law and the family: a new introduction to the philosophy of law. Cham: Springer, 2017.
- Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa, & Richard L. Roberts, eds. Muslim family law in Sub-Saharan Africa: colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
- Klaw, Margaret (2013). Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1616202392.
- Harry D. Krause. ‘Comparative family law’, in Oxford handbook of comparative law. Eds. Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 1099–1130.
- Ziba Mir-Hosseini et al., eds. Gender and equality in Muslim family law: justice and ethics in the Islamic legal tradition. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017.
- Jens M. Scherpe, ed. European family law. 3 vols. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2016.
External links
- Testimony of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Ph.D., Co-Director, National Marriage Project Rutgers University, before US Senate Subcommittee
- Wallerstein, Judith (19 December 2000). "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce". NPR. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/conversation/july-dec00/wallerstein_12-19.htm. (an analysis of the long-term effect of divorce on children)
- R. Partain, "Comparative Family Law, Korean Family Law, and the Missing Definitions of Family", (2012) HongIk University Journal of Law, Vol. 13, No. 2.
- "Hong Kong Family Court Tables" includes a summary of Hong Kong family law principles, a guide to the recent case law and relevant statutes, and a glossary of relevant terms related to the Hong Kong family law.
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