Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, MA (Cantab), FBALord of Appeal in Ordinary since 2004Previously Lord Justice of Appeal, 1999 to 2004, High Court Judge (Family Division), 1994 to 1999, Law Commissioner, 1984 to 1993, Faculty of Law, University of Manchester, 1966 to 1989Visiting Professor of Law, King's College LondonChancellor, University of BristolDavid Pearl MA LLB PhD (Cantab)Circuit Judge since 1994President, Care Standards Tribunal since 2002Commissioner, Judicial Appointments Commission since 2006Honorary Professor University of East Anglia since 1994Life Fellow, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge since 1989Bencher, Gray's Inn since 2002Elizabeth Cooke MA LLM, Solicitor, Professor of Law at the University of ReadingDaniel Monk LLB LLM SolicitorSenior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London

• 1. The family and the law ; 2. Relationship recognition: marriage and civil partnership ; 3. Making ends meet: family resources and state support ; 4. Divorce and the dissolution of civil partnership ; 5. Financial provision on divorce ; 6. Financial provision for separating cohabitants ; 7. Dangerous families ; 8. Parents, children and family life ; 9. Becoming a parent ; 10. When parents part ; 11. Social services for children and families ; 12. The 'permancy principle': who are my family?