Family Law category: 810 books
Adolescence, Sexuality, and the Criminal Law
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Gain an understanding of the threat to freedom that is posed by state regulation of adolescent sexual behavior
Sexual autonomy encompasses both the right to engage in wanted sexual activity and the right to be free and protected from unwanted sexual aggression. Only when both aspects of adolescents’...
Debating Sharia
Islam, Gender Politics, and Family Law Arbitration
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
When the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice announced it would begin offering Sharia-based services in Ontario, a subsequent provincial government review gave qualified support for religious arbitration. However, the ensuing debate inflamed the passions of a wide range of Muslim and non-Muslim groups,...
Surrogacy and Embryo, Sperm, & Egg Donation: What Were You Thinking?
Considering Ivf & Third-Party Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
In Surrogacy and Embryo, Sperm, & Egg Donation: What Were You Thinking?, an attorney who practices exclusively in reproductive law shares her expert guidance for those ready to create a family via third-party reproduction. Theresa Erickson, managing partner of Erickson Law, APLC, and the Founder...
by Olivera Simic
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The condemnation of wartime sexual violence as a gross violation of human rights has received widespread support. While rape and other forms of sexual violence have attracted considerable local and international attention, this often excludes wartime sexual violence among women belonging to so-called...
Law, Custom and Property Rights Among the Ama/Nyima? of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan
An Analysis of Traditional Property Concepts in a Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This book is based on an extensive field work in which the author tried to study the customary law of property of an African agrarian tribal community of Ama - also known as Nyima? - of the Nuba Mountains in the northern Sudan. The writer has tried to explain the nature of property holding in the...
A Dharma Reader
Classical Indian Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend...
Know Your Rights
Employment and Family Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Know Your Rights: Employment and Family brings together the most up-to-date information on:
Family law, including the Civil Partnership Act, from marriage to divorce; adoption to guardianship; sale of the family home to wills and inheritance; domestic violence to custody.
The rights of the...
Child Custody
Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
For too long, divorce and remarriage literature has focused only on the outcome in the personal lives of the divorcees during and after divorce. But now, in Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes, you’ll see that divorce is a chain reaction that begins in the courtrooms and branches...
Renegotiating Family Relationships, Second Edition
Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Long recognized as the authoritative guide for clinicians working with divorcing families, this book presents crucial concepts, strategies, and intervention techniques. Robert E. Emery describes how to help parents navigate the emotional and legal hurdles of this painful family transition while protecting...
Restoring the Kingdom
Returning Law Enforcement to What It Once Was
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
This is not a "how to be a cop" book. It is about restoring the lost reputation of honesty and integrity to a once proud profession. This book contains tools, that when used properly, can help reverse the growing trend of animosity toward the protectors of our society. The honest mistakes...
Women and Sexual Harassment
A Practical Guide to the Legal Protections of Title VII and the Hostile Environment Claim
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Here is a valuable guide that saves researchers investigating sexual harassment in the workplace enormous amounts of time and money. Focusing on the hostile environment claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Women and Sexual Harassment is a complete resource tool. In one easy-to-use...
Social Work and the Law
Proceedings of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Examine cutting-edge research on the social worker’s role in the legal system!
Social Work and the Law: Proceedings of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, 2000 addresses the issues and concerns facing social workers who deal with law and the legal system. This comprehensive...
Regulating Sexuality
Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives explores the impact that recent seismic shifts in the legal landscape have had for lesbians and gay men. The last decade has been a time of extensive change in the legal regulation of lesbian and gay lives in Britain, Canada and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This book is devoted to the study of the interplay between religious rules and State law. It explores how State recognition of religious rules can affect the degree of legal diversity that is available to citizens and why such recognition sometime results in more individual and collective freedom...