Routledge Handbook of International Family Law

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Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new families have been created. Borders have become more porous, allowing adoptees and mail order brides to join new families and women fleeing domestic violence to escape from old ones. People of different nationalities marry, have children, and divorce, not necessarily in that order. They file suits in their respective home states or third states, demanding support, custody, and property. Otherwise law-abiding parents risk jail in desperate efforts to abduct their own children from foreign ex-spouses. The aim of this Handbook is to provide scholars, postgraduate students, judges, and practioners with a broad but authoritative review of current research in the area of International Family Law. The contributors reflect on a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions and their approaches vary. Each chapter has a distinct subject matter and was written by an author who was invited because of his or her expertise on that subject. This volume provides a valuable contribution to emerging understandings of the subject. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors Introduction PART I Marriage and marriage-like relationships 1 Marriage 2 Same-sex marriages and civil or registered partnerships 3 Customary marriages PART II Divorce 4 Divorce 5 Post-divorce maintenance for spouses 6 Distribution of property on divorce 7 International family mediation: recent developments PART III Children 8 Child custody and cognate concepts: the challenges 9 Child support 10 Personal relations and contact concerning children 11 Adoption PART IV Human rights within and affecting the family 12 Children’s rights in the family 13 Reproductive rights 14 Surrogacy 15 Fathers’ rights: Japan as a different paradigm PART V The family and the state 16 Theories of state and family 17 Normative developments on domestic violence against women 18 Transnational families: the right to family life in the age of global migration Index