International Family Law Handbook
International Family Law Handbook is an indispensable guide for family lawyers covering all aspects of international family law. It is comprehensive and authoritative while also being accessible and practical for the busy family law professional.
Contents include:
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- Recognition of foreign marriages and divorces
- Forced marriages
- Marital agreements
- Jurisdiction and stays: divorce and finance
- Divorce and financial jurisdiction within the UK
- Child maintenance
- Financial relief after foreign divorce
- International service
- Freezing orders (injunctions)
- Swearing of documents and evidence abroad
- Trusts
- Pensions
- Enforcement
- Jurisdiction: children
- Transferring proceedings, lis pendens and stays
- Child abduction
- Relocation and leave to remove
- Surrogacy
- intercountry adoption
- International public law
- Immigration issues for family lawyers
- Cohabitation in a comparative context
- Shari’a marriages and divorces
- Female Genital Mutilation
Building on the rich history of previous versions of Resolution’s international guides over 30 years, International Family Law Handbook has been comprehensively updated and enhanced by Resolution’s highly experienced international committee of solicitors, barristers, judges and academics, many of whom also either practice or are qualified in other jurisdictions, including Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Australia, Switzerland and UAE.