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This new book addresses the key issues of parental rights and responsibilities.
Part of the International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, this text examines issues of child law. Amongst the areas covered are: children's rights; parental rights; the best interest of the child; child custody on divorce; and the child support obligation.
Providing comprehensive coverage of the law relating to parent and child, this volume covers: legitimacy and legitimation; historical developments; ante-natal issues; constitution of the parent-child relationship; parental responsibilities and rights; custody; aliment; capacity and legal representation of children; legal capacity; assumption of parental rights and powers; access or right of contact; jurisdictional and procedural aspects of custody and care; international aspects of custody and access; education of children; guardians; relationship of care; fostering and temporary care of children; procedural and international aspects of adoption.
Is it better to keep children out of family law conflicts about parenting, or to give them a say? This book integrates the issues with empirical data on the views and experiences of children and other participants in such disputes, suggesting ways that children can better be heard without placing them at the centre of conflicts.
The leading journal on all aspects of child and family law
With the move away from reliance on expert evidence in the court arena there is a need to provide practitioners in the social care and legal professions with a framework for formulating how the child's best interests can be met within their timescales and whether capacity to change is likely.
This book examines the idea of 'parental responsibility' in English law and what is expected of a responsible parent. The scope of 'parental responsibility', a key concept in family law, is undefined and often ambiguous. Yet, to date, more attention has been paid to how individuals acquire parental responsibility than to the question of the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities they have once they obtain it. This book redresses the balance by providing the first sustained examination of the different elements of parental responsibility, bringing together leading scholars to comment on specific aspects of its operation. The book begins by exploring the conceptual underpinnings of parent...
This study explores whether and how enshrining children's rights in national constitutions improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by comparing Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish law.