Butterworths Family Law Service

Butterworths Family Law Service is the leading looseleaf work on family law. It provides authoritative guidance on all aspects of the law as it affects families and family breakdowns and includes extensive coverage of child law. It provides detailed narrative guidance on the divorce process, with the practical consequences of divorce examined in detail. ADR options are also explored in detail, with practical guidance on mediation, collaborative law, arbitration and Islamic and Jewish ADR. It deals with the law as it applies to married and unmarried partners and their children and provides coverage of all other important family law matters including domestic violence, custody and financial provision. A chapter on Family and Children Law in Wales is also included. This authoritative work is written and structured to ensure that it is as accessible and as contemporary a treatment of the law as possible. It comes to you in eight volumes plus a Bulletins, Tables and Index volume. Each volume covers a discrete area of law and contains a comprehensive collection of statutory materials, practice directions, circulars, forms and precedents relevant to the subject matter of the volume including important extracts from the Civil Procedure Rules, the Family Procedure Rules and the various Rules applicable to the magistrates' courts. The work is kept fully up-to-date via bi-monthly issues. This service is available online and on CD-ROM. Nine looseleaf volumes plus a Tables and Index binder. Seven service issues per year invoiced separately on publication.

Binder 1: Relationships and Their Breakdown - The first interview: choice of remedy and immediate action; Marriage; The Gender Recognition Act 2004; Grounds for proceedings in nullity; Grounds for proceedings in divorce and judicial separation; The Mental Capacity Act 2005; Cohabitation; Domestic violence; The Civil Partnership Act 2004; Immigration Law; Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc, Precedents; Index; Binder 2: Family Courts: Jurisdiction and Procedure - Jurisdiction; Procedure; Appeals; Costs; Legal aid; Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Precedents; Index; Binder 3 (I): Children - Narrative - Overview and fundamental principles of the Children Act 1989; Parentage; Parental responsibility; The exercise and discharge of parental responsibility; Guardianship; Orders in family proceedings; Local authority support for children and families; Local authority duties to looked after children; Leaving local authority accomodation; Local authority complaints procedure; Local authority support for children: inter-agency co-operation; Secure accommodation; Care and supervision orders; Education supervision orders; Child protection; Child assessment order; Emergency protection orders; Police protection powers; Abduction of children in care and recovery orders; Binder 3 (II): Children - Narrative - Adoption: background and general principles; The Adoption Service; Adoption agencies: planning for children, and approving adopters; Adoption agencies: matching children with adopters, and reviews; Placement for adoption; Adoption; Adoption societies and adoption agency records; Adoption support agencies; Adoption registers and disclosure of information; Independent reviews of determinations; Restrictions in relation to adoption; Power of minister; Adoption and the courts; Special guardianship; Case management (1): responsibilities and professional conduct; Case management (2): FPR - overriding objective and key Practice Directions: Case Management (3): preparation and procedure; Experts (1): procedural matters; Experts (2): use in particular kinds of case; Burden/standard of proof and findings of fact; Evidence: law and practice; Privilege; Disclosure within proceedings/privilege; Disclosure beyond proceedings/confidentiality; Judgment; The participation of children in proceedings: professionals involved; Children not party to proceedings; Children with automatic party status: specified proceedings; Children made party by order of the court; Appeals; Media attendance at and reporting of children proceedings; The courts: wardship and the inherent jurisdiction; Index; Binder 3(III): Children - Materials; Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Binder 4(I): Property, Money and Tax-Narrative - Ownership and occupation of family property; Child support and financial provision for children; Financial provision where there are no proceedings for divorce, nullity or judicial separation; Financial and property provision in proceedings for divorce, nullity or judicial separation; Ancillary relief proceedings: special considerations; Applications for financial orders: practice and procedure; Financial orders: costs; Preservation of assets; Applications for financial relief in England and Wales after a foreign divorce, annulment or legal separation; Enforcement of orders; Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; Implications of welfare benefits; Taxation; Tax credits; Index; Binder 4(II): Property, Money and Tax-Materials - Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Precedents; Binder 5: Human Rights and International - Jurisdiction; Recognition of overseas marriages and divorces; Reciprocal enforcement of financial orders; Child abduction; Adoption with an international element; Human rights and the family; Statutes and Conventions; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Index; Binder 6: Alternative Dispute Resolution - Mediation and collaborative law; Arbitration; Islamic alternative dispute resolution; Jewish alternative dispute resolution; Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Forms and Precedents; Index; Binder 7: Tables; Index; Checklist