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Paternity may refer to:

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  • Parental leave, also called paternity leave, a leave of absence taken to allow a father to attend to family needs associated with fatherhood

Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.[1]

Overview

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Subjects that commonly fall under a nation's body of family law include:

This list is not exhaustive and varies depending on jurisdiction.

Conflict of laws

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Issues may arise in family law where there is a question as to the laws of the jurisdiction that apply to the marriage relationship or to custody and divorce, and whether a divorce or child custody order is recognized under the laws of another jurisdiction.[8][9][10][11] For child custody, many nations have joined the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in order to grant recognition to other member states' custody orders and avoid issues of parental kidnapping.[12]

By jurisdiction

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Atkinson, Jeff. "ABA Family Legal Guide" (PDF). American Bar Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  2. ^ Weitzman, Lenore J. (1980). "The Economics of Divorce: Social and Economic Consequences of Property, Alimony and Child Support Awards". UCLA Law Review. 28: 1181. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  3. ^ Wadlington, Walter (1980–1981). "Adoption of Adults a Family Law Anomaly". Cornell Law Review. 54: 566. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  4. ^ Capron, A.M.; Radin, M.J. (1988). "Choosing Family Law over Contract Law as a Paradigm for Surrogate Motherhood". Law, Medicine & Health Care. 16 (1–2): 34–43. doi:10.1111/j.1748-720X.1988.tb01048.x. PMID 3060684. S2CID 20125279.
  5. ^ Lawrie, Moloney; Smyth, Bruce M.; Weston, Ruth; Richardson, Nich; Qu, Lixia; Gray, Matthew (2007). "Allegations of family violence and child abuse in family law children's proceedings: key findings of Australian Institute of Family Studies Research Report No. 15". Family Matters. 77. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  6. ^ Babb, Barbara A. (1998). "Fashioning an interdisciplinary framework for court reform in family law: A blueprint to construct a unified family court". Southern California Law Review. 71: 469. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  7. ^ Lee, Chang Ling (1975). "Current Status of Paternity Testing". Family Law Quarterly. 9 (4): 615–633. JSTOR 25739134.
  8. ^ Currie, David P. (1966). "Suitcase Divorce in the Conflict of Laws: Simons, Rosenstiel, and Borax". The University of Chicago Law Review. 34 (1): 26–77. doi:10.2307/1598624. JSTOR 1598624.
  9. ^ "Family law | Definition, Examples, Types, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2024-05-23. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  10. ^ "legal practice areas Family Law. The University of Law".
  11. ^ Ahmady, Kameel Et al 2017: Echo of Silence (book) (A Comprehensive Research Study on Early Child Marriage (ECM) in Iran). Nova publishing, USA. p 10.
  12. ^ "International Parental Kidnapping". U.S. Department of Justice. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

Further reading

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  • David Bradley. ‘Family law’, in Elgar encyclopedia of comparative law, 3rd edn. Vol. 2: E-L. Eds. Jan M. Smits et al. Cheltenham/Northampton, M.A.: Edward Elgar, 2023.
  • Elizabeth Brake & Lucinda Ferguson, eds. Philosophical foundations of children's and family law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Aleck Chloros, Max Rheinstein, & Mary Ann Glendon, eds. International encyclopedia of comparative law, vol. 4: Persons and family. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.
  • Shazia Choudhry & Jonathan Herring, eds. The Cambridge companion to comparative family law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • John Eekelaar. Family law and personal life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Finer, Sir Morris (1974). Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families: presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Services by command of Her Majesty July 1974. H.M.S.O. ISBN 9780101562911.
  • Marsha Garrison. Family life, family law, and family justice: tying the knot. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.
  • Laurence D. Houlgate. Philosophy, law and the family: a new introduction to the philosophy of law. Cham: Springer, 2017.
  • Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa, & Richard L. Roberts, eds. Muslim family law in Sub-Saharan Africa: colonial legacies and post-colonial challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
  • Klaw, Margaret (2013). Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1616202392.
  • Harry D. Krause. ‘Comparative family law’, in Oxford handbook of comparative law. Eds. Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 1099–1130.
  • Ziba Mir-Hosseini et al., eds. Gender and equality in Muslim family law: justice and ethics in the Islamic legal tradition. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017.
  • Jens M. Scherpe, ed. European family law. 3 vols. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2016.
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