Below is a list of
Family Law
books added to the library's collection in the past 6 months.
Adoption laws in a nutshell / by Sanford N. Katz, Daniel R. Katz.
Location:
lapsc
Call #:
KF545 .K38 2012
Publisher:
West,
With the number of people waiting to adopt children, the need for a comprehensive yet succinct explanation of adoption laws and practices is met by Adoption Laws in a Nutshell. The book is an excellent resource for the legal and social work professions, providing an analysis of the latest developments regarding agency responsibilities toward adoptive parents and children, consents necessary to complete an adoption, father's rights, the new assisted reproductive technology and adoption including surrogacy, standards for placement, open adoption, access to adoption records, inheritance rights of all the parties and intercountry adoption.
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Alzheimer's disease and dementia : a comparison of international approaches : report of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate pursuant to S. Res. 81, sec. 17(d), March 2, 2011, resolution authorizing a study of the problems of aged and agin
Location:
lax
Call #:
DOC. Y 1.1/5:112-254
Publisher:
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Battered women, their children, and international law : the unintended consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention / Taryn Lindhorst, Jeffrey L. Edleson.
Location:
lax
Call #:
K707 .L56 2012
Publisher:
Northeastern University Press,
An eye-opening appraisal of how current Hague Child Abduction Convention agreements unintentionally harm abused women and their children
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Changing legal regulation of cohabitation : from fornicators to family, 1600-2010 / Rebecca Probert.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KD771 .P78 2012
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
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Child protection in Chinese societies : challenges and policies / editors, Edward Ko Ling Chan.
Location:
lax
Call #:
HV6626.54.C6 C45 2012
Publisher:
Nova Science Publishers,
This book introduces the current situations of child victimisation in the Chinese populations to readers, discusses the relevant political and legal systems as well as health and social services, and puts forward some recommendations for effective child protection with an emphasis on the unique cultural values and situations in the Chinese populations. Grounded in the recent and contemporary research and scholarly inquiry, this is a vital book for understanding trends and current situations in China, as well as an essential read for those who work, research, teach or study in the area. This book is the only one available to date to present a comprehensive and critical review of child maltreatment and victimisation in China whilst promoting a multi-disciplinary collaboration to child protection.
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Children and the European Union : rights, welfare and accountability / Helen Stalford.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KJC1018 .S73 2012
Publisher:
Hart Pub.,
This book examines in detail the status of children in the EU. Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives, including sociology of childhood and human rights discourse, it offers a critical analysis of the legal and policy framework underpinning EU children's rights across a range of areas, including family law, immigration and child protection.Traditionally children's rights at this level have been articulated primarily in the context of the free movement of persons provisions, inevitably restricting entitlement to migrant children of EU nationality. In the past decade, however, innovative interpretations of Community law by the ECJ, coupled with important constitutional developments, have prompted the institutions to develop a much more robust children's rights agenda. The book therefore comes at a pivotal point in the history of EU children's rights, providing a detailed and critical overview of a range of substantive areas, and making an important contribution to international children's rights studies.
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Children who resist postseparation parental contact : a differential approach for legal and mental health professionals / Barbara Jo Fidler, Nicholas Bala, Michael A. Saini.
Location:
lax
Call #:
HQ777.5 .F43 2012
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact is a critical, empirically based review of parental alienation that integrates the best research evidence with clinical insight from interviews with leading scholars and practitioners. The authors - Fidler, Bala, and Saini - a psychologist, a lawyer and a social worker, are an multidisciplinary team who draw upon the growing body of mental health and legal literature to summarize the historical development and controversies surrounding the concept of "alienation" and explain the causes, dynamics, and differentiation of various types of parent-child relationship issues. The authors review research on prevalence, risk factors, indicators, assessment, and measurement to form a conceptual integration of multiple factors relevant to the etiology and maintenance of the problem of strained parent-child relationships.
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Demography, active ageing and pensions / European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.
Location:
lax
Call #:
HQ1061 .D46 2012
Publisher:
Publications Office of the European Union,
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Domestic subjects : gender, citizenship, and law in Native American literature / Beth H. Piatote.
Location:
lax
Call #:
PS153.I52 P53 2013
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Piatote tracks the double movement of literature and law in the contest over the aims of settler-national domestication and the defence of tribal-national culture, political rights and territory.
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Estate planning for Illinois attorneys : the basics and beyond / James M. Lestikow, general editor ; chapter authors, Mary F. Andreoni ... [et al.].
Location:
laill-nc
Call #:
KFI1340 .E74 2012
Publisher:
Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
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Families in crisis in the Old South : divorce, slavery, and the law / Loren Schweninger.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KF505 .S39 2012
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press,
In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of "madness," and as another asserted, divorce reduced communities to the "lowest ebb of degeneracy." How was it that in this climate, the number of divorces rose steadily during the antebellum era? InFamilies in Crisis, Loren Schweninger uses previously unexplored records to argue that the difficulties these divorcing families faced reveal much about the reality of life in a slave-holding society as well as the myriad difficulties confronted by white southern families who chose not to divorce.
Basing his argument on almost 800 divorce cases from the southern United States, Schweninger explores the impact of divorce and separation on white families and on the enslaved and provides insights on issues including domestic violence, interracial adultery, alcoholism, insanity, and property relations. He examines how divorce and separation laws changed, how married women's property rights expanded, how definitions of inhuman treatment of wives evolved, and how these divorces challenged conventional mores.
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From the closet to the altar : courts, backlash, and the struggle for same-sex marriage / Michael Klarman.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KF539 .K58 2013
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
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Gender, religion, & family law : theorizing conflicts between women's rights and cultural traditions / edited by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and Sylvia Neil.
Location:
lax
Call #:
K670 .G435 2013
Publisher:
Brandeis University Press,
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Immigration law sourcebook : a compendium of immigration-related laws and policy documents.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KF4819.85 .I4674 2013
Publisher:
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Law as a tool for empowering women within marital relations : a case study of paternity lawsuits in Egypt / Hind Ahmed Zaki.
Location:
lacom
Call #:
KRM1749 .A94 2012
Publisher:
American University in Cairo Press,
How do women use courts within the context of paternity lawsuits? This study analyzes the challenges that the formal legal approach to empowering women faces once it is translated into everyday socio-legal experiences and court repertoires. It also seeks to trace the pathologies inherent inpersonal status law reform and normal legal practices in Egypt, attesting to the limitations of law as an agent of social change in the private domain of the family. It mainly sheds light on the difficulties of separating formal legal rules from informal social practices. It also explores the problem of paternity claims in Egypt. Adding to growing literature on the use of legal mobilization to advance gender equity, this study offers insights on theoften-neglected role of social norms in court experiences, often leading to unexpected consequences that sometimes defy the intended goals behind policies and legislation.
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Little angels : an international legal perspective on child discrimination / Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter.
Location:
lax
Call #:
K639 .C682 2012
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality. Examining issues of child labour and the relevant laws which are designed to protect the most vulnerable in our society, the book explores the primary role of legislation and the judicial system and its impact on the fight for child rights and the ultimate goal of the end of inequality. The book considers the major common law countries of Australia and New Zealand, Africa and South Africa, Canada, Mexico and the United States, and the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union Treaty in a historical and compelling analysis of discrimination worldwide. By providing a detailed examination of child rights and the law, it will be an important read for those concerned with equality and empowering those most vulnerable to discrimination, the children.
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Loving v. Virginia in a post-racial world : rethinking race, sex, and marriage / edited by Kevin Noble Maillard, Rose Cuison Villazor.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KF517 .L68 2012
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. This book takes a critical approach to that case and asks how Loving has influenced the marital freedom and racial equality in America. How far have we come since then, and what effect did the case have on individual lives?
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Managing legal risks in early childhood programs : how to prevent flare-ups from becoming lawsuits / Holly Elissa Bruno, Tom Copeland.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KF2042.D3 B78 2012
Publisher:
Redleaf Press ; Teachers College Press,
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Muslim family law, secular courts and Muslim women of South Asia : a study in judicial activism / Alamgir Muhammad Serajuddin.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KNC156 .S468 2011
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
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Muslim women and Shari'ah Councils : transcending the boundaries of community and law / Samia Bano.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KD750 .B36 2012
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Using original empirical data and critiquing existing research, Samia Bano explores the experience of British Muslim woman who use Shari'ah councils to resolve marital disputes. She challenges the language of community rights and claims for legal autonomy in matters of family law showing how law and community can empower as well as restrict women.
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New kinship : constructing donor-conceived families / Naomi Cahn.
Location:
lax
Call #:
K3611.A77 C34 2013
Publisher:
New York University Press,
This title details how families are made and how bonds are created between families in the brave new world of reproductive technology. Naomi Cahn, an expert on reproductive technology and the law, shows how these new kinship bonds dramatically exemplify the ongoing cultural change in how we think about family.
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Reconceptualizing children's rights in international development : living rights, social justice, translations / edited by Karl Hanson, Olga Nieuwenhuys.
Location:
lax
Call #:
K639 .R435 2013
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on rights and their codification. By exploring the relationships between these three concepts, the realities and complexities of children's rights are highlighted. The framework is critical of approaches to children as passive targets of good intentions and aims to disclose how children craft their own conceptions and practices of rights. The contributions offer important insights into new ways of thinking and research within this emerging field.
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Rights of Indians and tribes / Stephen L. Pevar.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KF8210.C5 P48 2012
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
The Rights of Indians and Tribes, 4th Edition addresses the most significant legal issues facing Indians and Indian tribes, including the regulation of non-Indians on reservations, definitions of important legal terms, Indian treaties, the Indian Civil Rights Act, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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Secrets of law / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Location:
lax
Call #:
K487.S43 S43 2012
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
The Secrets of Lawexplores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes.
The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and legal practices—including the question of transparency in democratic processes during the Bush Administration, the principle of public justice in England's response to the war on terror, and the evidentiary law of spousal privilege. The second half of the book explores legal, literary, and filmic representations of secrets in law, focusing on how knowledge about particular cases and crimes is often rendered opaque to those attempting to access and decode the information. Those invested in transparency must ultimately cultivate a capacity to read between the lines, decode the illegible, and acknowledge both the virtues and dangers of the unknowable.
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What is parenthood? : contemporary debates about the family / edited by Linda C. McClain, Daniel Cere.
Location:
lax
Call #:
KF540 .W52 2013
Publisher:
New York University Press,
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