Family Law Lectures - Family Law I

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Salient Features:- With expansive coverage and exhaustive analysis, the content and volume of material???both legislative and judicial have gone up since the previous editions Covers varied aspects on the subject including marriage, maintenance, division of matrimonial property, gender justice, guardianship, child welfare, and domestic as well as inter country adoption, as developed by the Supreme Court and various High Courts The author has discussed major recent judgments of the Supreme Court on such contemporary concerns as the status of live-in relationships and of children born of such relationships. The book also provides insights into contemporary matrimonial issues that have emerged as a result of the development of new perceptions of rights and duties, as well as alternative methods for matrimonial dispute settlement. Notable features of this edition are : 1. a list of statutory provisions discussed in particular chapters, 2. the full text of The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, and The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, 3. a digest of major cases, a list of model questions Standard Reference for:- Law students, Professors, Lawyers, Researchers, Jurists, Scholars of Gender Studies, Child Rights and Sociology, Social Science Libraries and the common manAbout The AuthorProfessor Kusum, MA, LLM, former Research Professor of the Indian Law Institute for over thirty years, has contributed several articles to the Indian Law Institute Journal as well as other journals and magazines apart from writing and co-authoring several books. In the year 1983, she was appointed to the Legal Aid Board to conduct reconciliation in matrimonial cases filed in district courts of Delhi. She is attached to the Delhi Legal Aid Board, and the National Commission for Women. She was awarded the UNDP Human Rights Fellowship in 1977 and was elected as a Founder Director Member of the International Association of Bioethics (Australia) in 1992.