Family Law

Family Law is the most applied family law text; enriched with scenarios on to which students can hang principles, analysis, and critical discussion --- Oxford University Press understands the need for current coverage in law and strives to provide readers with the most up to date information --- The text is now available as a 2025 Digital Update that incorporates important new content from the author to Summer 2025 including --- updated statistics throughout, including in relation to domestic abuse, marriage and divorce, looked-after children and child protection interventions; discussions of the Law Commissions proposals to reform weddings law and their scoping paper on financial remedy reform; discussion on transfer of tenancy under the Family Law Act 1996; new cases on nuptial agreements and matrimonial assets [AH v BH], constructive trusts, and removal and restriction of parental responsibility among others; a fully revised section on alienation reflecting the latest understanding of that and domestic abuse in Children Act cases, as well as the use of new s 91(14)(A); upcoming reforms on parental responsibility; expanded discussion on the requirements for a valid marriage, pension orders upon divorce and the limits on a childs rights regarding medical treatment; updated discussion of matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets, drawing on the Supreme Court judgment in Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26.