Debates in family law around the globe at the dawn of the 21st century
By: edited by Katharina Boele-Woelki.
Contributors: Boele-Woelki, Katharina.; Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law.
Series: European family law series -- 23; European family law series -- 23.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Antwerp; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9789050958752
Subjects: Domestic relations -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Contributions at an expert meeting organized by the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law in June 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What comparative family law should entail / Katharina Boele-Woelki; title: Family law and national culture : arguing against the cultural constraints argument /  Masha Antokolskaia; title: Active parenting or Solomon's justice? Alternating residence in Sweden for children with separated parents / Anna Singer; title: Alternating residence and relocation : a view from France / Frédérique Granet; title: Divided parents, shared children : conflicting approaches to relocation disputes in the USA / Theresa Glennon; title: Parental relocation : free movement rights and joint parenting / Christina G. Jeppesen de Boer; title: Family function over family form in the law on parentage? The legal position of children born in informal relationships / Wendy M. Schrama; title: Tracing down the historical development of the legal concept of the right to know one's origins : has 'to know or not to know' ever been the legal question? / Richard J. Blauwhoff; title: The role of formalised and non-formalised intentions in legal parent-child relationships in Dutch law / Machteld Vonk; title: The Kansas case of K.M.H. : US law concerning the legal status of known sperm donors / Nancy G. Maxwell; title: A judicial revolution? The court-led achievement of same-sex marriage in South Africa / Pierre de Vos; title: Family vs solidarity : recent epiphanies of the Italian reductionist anomaly in the debate on de facto couples / Matteo Bonini Baraldi.; title: Same-sex partnerships in Portugal : from de facto to de jure? / Rosa Martins; title: Same-sex partners in Hungary : cohabitation and registered partnership /  Orsolya Szeibert-Erdős; title: Same-sex family unions in Israeli law / Talia Einhorn; title: Is the union civil? Same-sex marriages, civil unions, domestic partnerships, and reciprocal benefits in the USA / Ian Curry-Sumner & Scott Curry-Sumner; title: Research questions in family law derived from a comparative synthesis of general trends and developments / Katharina Boele-Woelki, Bente Braat, Ian Curry-Sumner, Christina Jeppesen de Boer, Pia Lokin, Machteld Vonk, Nora de Vries, Wendy Schrama.