Subjects:

Family Law

Contents:

4 Releases per year, charged by release

Volume 1(1)

PART I –

Historical introduction

Chapter
1. Historical introduction

PART II –

Jurisdiction

Chapter
2. Jurisdiction of the court in England and Wales

PART III –

General practice

Chapter
3. Structure of courts and allocation of family business

Chapter
4. General practice

Chapter
5. Evidence and procedure: application of particular aspects of rules of evidence and procedure to family proceedings

Chapter
6. Case preparation and management

PART IV –

Marriage and divorce

Chapter
7. Marriage

Chapter
8. Nullity of marriage

Chapter
9. The law of divorce, judicial separation and presumption of death

Chapter
10. Procedure in relation to divorce, nullity and judicial separation

Chapter
11. Decrees nisi and absolute

Chapter
12. Stays of matrimonial and related proceedings

Chapter
13. Recognition of divorces, annulments and legal separations

PART V –

Civil partnership

Chapter
14. Civil partnership

PART VI –

Ancillary relief

Chapter
15. Agreements concerning finances

Chapter
16. Applications and orders for ancillary relief

Chapter
17. Procedure and evidence in applications for ancillary relief

Chapter
18. Orders: variation and setting aside

Chapter
19. Bankruptcy, insolvency and ancillary relief

Chapter
20. Taxation considerations

Chapter
21. Impact of welfare benefits

PART VII –

Other claims relating to property and finances

Chapter
22. Financial support for children

Chapter
23. Maintenance out of the estate of a deceased person

Chapter
24. Resolving claims to property: the Married Women’

s Property Act 1882 and property issues between cohabitants

Chapter
25. Resolving claims to property: determining and realising claims: procedure

Chapter
26. Applications under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984

PART VIII –

Preserving assets

Chapter
27. Injunctions in aid of financial proceedings

PART IX –

Enforcing financial orders

Chapter
28. Domestic enforcement of financial orders

Chapter
29. International enforcement of financial orders

PART X –

Committals

Chapter
30. Committals

PART XI –

Family homes and domestic violence

Chapter
31. Matrimonial home rights, tenancy transfers under Part IV of the Family Act 1996 and occupation orders

Chapter
32. Non-molestation, other anti-harassment orders, and procedure under Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996

PART XII –

Other family injunctions

Chapter
33. Other family injunctions

PART XIII –

Declaratory decrees

Chapter
34. Declaratory decrees

PART XIV –

Status

Chapter
35. Status and relationships

Volume 1(2)

PART XV –

Children

Chapter
36. General principles

Chapter
37. General powers, practice and evidence

Chapter
38. Parental responsibility

Chapter
39. Children Act 1989: private law relating to children

Chapter
40. Children Act 1989: public law proceedings

Chapter
41. Children Act 1989: procedure

Chapter
42. Inherent jurisdiction and wardship

Chapter
43. Issues concerning children

Chapter
44. Conflict of jurisdictions within the United Kingdom: the common rules of custody jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of orders within the United Kingdom: child abduction

Chapter
45. International child abduction: recognition and enforcement of orders made and custody rights arising outside the United Kingdom

Chapter
46. Enforcement of child orders: preventing abduction: tracing abducted children: practical assistance

Chapter
47. Adoption

PART XVI –

Magistrates’

courts

Chapter
48. Magistrates’

courts apart from the Children Act 1989 and adoption

PART XVII –

Human Rights Act 1998

Chapter
49. Human Rights Act 1998

PART XVIII –

Judicial review

Chapter
50. Judicial review

PART XIX –

Appeals

Chapter
51. Appeals

PART XX –

Costs

Chapter
52. Costs: Principles of award

Chapter
53. Public funding of legal services

Chapter
54. The assessment of costs

PART XXI –

Practice Directions

Chapter
55. Directions

PART XXII –

Forms and precedents

Chapter
56. Forms and precedents

Volume 2(1)

Statutory Materials –

Statutes

Volume 2(2)

Statutory Materials –

Statutory Instruments, European Material, Court Fees

Service Binder

Stop Press

Noter-up to Volume 1 and Volume 2

A - Matrimonial Cases Act 1973. B - Children Act 1989. C - Family Proceedings Rules 1991. D - Civil Procedure Rules 1998 as applied to family proceedings. E - Rule of the Supreme Court 1965 and County Court Rules 1981. F - Statutes. G - Rules, Regulations and Orders.

Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters is the complete encyclopaedic and authoritative text for those practising in the field of family law. The preferred choice of the Judiciary, this new edition provides a comprehensive collection of materials with narrative coverage of all relevant areas.

Expert practitioners give a detailed and authoritative commentary throughout, including a Court of Appeal Judge, four District Judges, a Registrar, three QCs and leading family law solicitors. A comprehensive hard copy updating service is provided four times a year, ensuring the statement of the law is up to date; the service includes the principal statutes and rules as currently in force and a Stop Press covering the latest developments.

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