Family law is concerned with the rights, duties and remedies arising out of personal intimate or domestic relationships. Traditionally marriage, divorce and the legal consequences of divorce have been the central subject-matter of family law courses.
Family law is a socio-legal course.
This means that you will not simply be considering the legal rules and remedies. You will be asked to think about the law in the context of the social changes in marriage and domestic life over the last two centuries, and the changing roles of men and women within families. Legal consequences of marriage and cohabitation. The protection of family members from domestic violence. Marriage breakdown - divorce.