Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Marriage, civil partnership, and cohabitation
2: Domestic violence
3: Divorce
4: Parents and children
5: Children's rights
6: Child abuse
7: Alimony and financial law
8: Where next for family law?
Further reading

About the Author

Jonathan Herring is a Fellow in Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. He specialises in family law (alongside medical law and criminal law). He has written several books including Family Law (5th ed Pearson, 2011) which is used in most universities in the UK. He has also written a large number of academic books including Family Law and Human Rights (Hart , 2010) (with Shazia Choudhry) and Older People in Law and Society (OUP, 2009).