Table of Contents:
  • Studying family law
  • Family law and its institutions
  • Marriage and marriage-like relationships
  • Divorce and violence in family law
  • Financial relations
  • Spousal maintenance
  • Private ordering of financial relations
  • Children in family law : child-related disputes under the Family Law Act
  • Children in court proceedings
  • Child maintenance and support and the wider social context of Australian family law
  • Family regulation : abortion and child protection
  • Children and family formation : adoption and reproductive technologies.