The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law [Hardcover]

Offers a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing family law globally, and explores how different countries have tackled them.In the face of rapid changes in social norms, demographics and political expectations, families and family law have faced significant challenges. This book takes a jurisdictional approach and explores how different countries have tackled these issues. It is aimed at students, practitioners and academics across a variety of disciplines.In the face of rapid changes in social norms, demographics and political expectations, families and family law have faced significant challenges. This book takes a jurisdictional approach and explores how different countries have tackled these issues. It is aimed at students, practitioners and academics across a variety of disciplines.Families and family law have encountered significant challenges in the face of rapid changes in social norms, demographics and political expectations. The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law highlights the key questions and themes that have faced family lawyers across the world. Each chapter is written by internationally renowned academic experts and focuses on which of these themes are most significant to their jurisdictions. In taking this jurisdictional approach, the collection will explore how different countries have tackled these issues. As a result, the collection is aimed at students, practitioners and academics across a variety of disciplines interested in the key issues faced by family law around the world and how they have been addressed.Introduction; 1. Contemporary issues in family law in England and Wales Rosemary Hunter; 2. Family law in the United States Theresa Glennon; 3. Human rights in the family law context Bettina Heiderhoff; 4. Australian family property law: just and equitable' outcomes? Belinda Fehlberg and Lisa Sarmas; 5. Towards the constitutionalization of family law in Latin America Nicol?s Espejo and Fabiola Lathrop; 6. The nuclear norló)