Family law

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Family law

Tina Bond, Jill M. Black and A. Jane Bridge

Oxford University Press, 2009

[2006]

  • pbk.

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Family Law offers a guide to the essential law, practice, and procedure that is at the heart of the Legal Practice Course. Offering material that is highly practical in nature and providing a concise account of the major aspects of the subject area, this text is an excellent guide for LPC candidates who need to develop a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of the law and procedure in a short period of time. This edition has been revised to include the latest developments in the legal field and discusses the relevant law likely to be encountered by the trainee solicitor in practice. Using sample forms, checklists and self-test questions as well as examples, the book offers a bridge between the notes and exercises provided by LPC lecturers and the more complex practitioner texts. Online Resource Centre The 2009 edition will be accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which will provide updates on any developments in the area of family law.

Table of Contents

  • GENERAL MATTERS
  • 1. The first interview
  • 2. Community legal service fund and public funding for family proceedings
  • DIVORCE: THE DECREE
  • 3. The Civil Partnership Act 2004
  • 4. The ground for divorce and the five facts
  • 5. Bar on presentation of divorce petitions within one year of marriage
  • 6. Jurisdiction in divorce and proceedings to disolve a civil partnership
  • 7. Drafting a divorce petition
  • 8. Undefended divorce: procedure for obtaining the decree
  • 9. Amended, supplemental, and new petitions
  • 10. Protection of respondents in separation cases: ss. 5 and 10, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
  • ANCILLARY RELIEF AFTER DIVORCE
  • 11. Ancillary relief orders available
  • 12. Procedure for ancillary relief applications
  • 13. Factors to be considered on ancillary relief applications
  • 14. Child Support Acts 1991 and subsequent amendments
  • 15. Preventing and setting aside dispositions under s. 37, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
  • 16. Collection and Enforcement of ancillary relief orders
  • 17. Variation of ancillary relief orders
  • FINANCIAL PROVISION AND PROPERTY DURING MARRIAGE
  • 18. Financial provision and property during marriage
  • 19. Separation and maintenance agreements
  • TAXATION
  • 20. Tax considerations
  • WELFARE BENEFITS
  • 21. Welfare benefits
  • OCCUPATION ORDERS AND NON-MOLESTATION ORDERS: PART IV OF THE FAMILY LAW ACT 1996
  • 22. Occupation orders and non-molestation orders: Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996
  • GENERAL MATTERS CONCERNING THE HOME AND OTHER PROPERTY
  • 23. The home: preventing a sale or mortgage
  • 24. Establishing an interest in property - section 17, Married Women's Property Act 1882 and the law relating to constructive and resulting trusts
  • 25. The question of wills
  • CHILDREN
  • 26. The Children Act 1989 - the section 8 orders and general principles
  • 27. Procedures for obtaining a section 8 order
  • 28. Preventing the removal of a child from the jurisdiction
  • 29. Children in local authority care
  • 30. Emergency protection of children
  • COHABITANTS
  • 31. Cohabitants
  • THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998
  • 32. The Human Rights Act 1998 and its impact on family law

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