Making Law for Families.

Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part One Framing Family Law: The Normative Aspect -- 2. Uncovering Social Obligations: Family Law and the Responsible Citizen -- 3. Marital Bargaining: Implications for Legal Policy -- Part Two The Politique of the Law-Making Venture -- Section 1: The Out of Court Agenda -- 4. Making Family Law New? Property and Superannuation Reform in Australia -- 5. Administrative Divorce in France: A Controversy Over a Reform,that Never Reached the Statute Book -- Section 2: The Party Political Agenda -- 6. Regulation of Same-Sex Partnerships from a Spanish Perspective -- 7. "Pro-Family Policy" in Poland in the Nineties -- 8. The Bulgarian Children Act: A Battlefield for Adult Policies or a Genuine Commitment to Children? -- Section 3: The Rights Agenda: Rhetoric and Reality -- 9. Legislating for the Child's Voice: Perspectives from Comparative Ethnography of Proceedings Involving Children -- 10. Family Law-Making and Human Rights in the United Kingdom -- Index.

This book analyzes the concept of the family in the context of increasing challenges and questions created by multicultural societies.

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