Bromley's Family Law

Nigel Lowe is Emeritus Professor of Law at Cardiff University. He is a child law specialist with a particular expertise on adoption, wardship and the inherent jurisdiction and on international aspects of child law.Gillian Douglas is Professor of Law Emerita at King's College London. Her work explores the relationship between family law and social change across the whole of the family life course, from the creation of families, through family obligation and relationship breakdown, to inheritance law.Emma Hitchings is a Professor of Family Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her research interests within the family law field include financial remedies on relationship breakdown and the family justice system.Rachel Taylor is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford. Her research interests concern the protection and implementation of children's rights.

• 1: Introduction2: Forming intimate enduring adult relationships3: The personal and property consequences of marriage, civil partnership and cohabitation4: The family home5: Protection from domestic abuse6: Divorce and dissolution7: Child support8: Financial remedies: the court's powers9: Financial remedies: principles and assessment10: The legal position of children11: Parents and guardians12: What is parental responsibility?13: Who has parental responsibility?14: The welfare principle15: Children's participation in family proceedings16: Private law proceedings concerning children17: Public law proceedings concerning children18: Care and supervision19: Adoption and special guardianship20: The High Court's inherent powers in respect of children21: The 1996 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children22: International parental child abduction

Adjectives such as 'accessible' and 'readable' spring to mind when describing this book. It lends itself to being dipped into. Authoritative without being didactic, Bromley's is a perennial favourite.