Family law
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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
- 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]
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.parental kidnapping.[9]
See also
Specific jurisdictions
- Algerian Family Code
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Family Law Act (Canada)
- California Child Actor's Bill, or the Coogan Law
- Family law system in England and Wales
- Malian Family Code
- Mudawana, the Moroccan Family Code
- The Philippines' Family Code of 1987
- Nashim, the order of the Mishnah outlining Jewish family law
References
- ^ a b Atkinson, Jeff. "ABA Family Legal Guide" (PDF). American Bar Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ Weitzman, Lenore J. (1980). "The Economics of Divorce: Social and Economic Consequences of Property, Alimony and Child Support Awards". UCLA Law Review. 28: 1181. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ Wadlington, Walter (1980–1981). "Adoption of Adults a Family Law Anomaly". Cornell Law Review. 54: 566. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- S2CID 20125279.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- Allegations of family violence and child abuse in family law children's proceedings: A pre-reform exploratory study. Australian Institute of Family Studies (Report). May 2007. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- JSTOR 25739134.
- JSTOR 1598624.
- ^ "International Parental Kidnapping". U.S. Department of Justice. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
Further reading
- ISBN 9780101562911.
- 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.
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". pbs.org. NPR. Archived from the original on 26 January 2001. Retrieved 2019-10-10. (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.
