Family law : processes, practices, pressures : proceedings of the tenth World Conference of the International Society of family Law, July 2000, Brisbane, Australia / edited by John Dewar and Stephen Parker.

Oxford : Hart, 2003.

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Domestic relations -- Congresses.

Custody of children.

Children.

Part I. Processes: 1. Children's particpation in the family justice system : translating principles into practice / Nigel Lowe and Mervyn Murch

2. Children's participation in family court litigation / Richard Chisholm

3. Delivery systems for protective services and related legal services for victims of domestic violence within a major American state / Jane Muller-Peterson, Robert E Raines and Andrea C Jacobsen

4. Paternalism, participation and placation : young people's experiences of representation in child protection proceedings in England and Wales / Judith Masson

5. Issues in the making of Ouster orders under the Domestic Violence (Family Protection) Act 1989 (Qld) / Rachael Field, Belinda Carpenter and Susan Currie

6. The South African Family Court : a first world ideal in a second world country / Sandra Burman, Emma Dingle and Nichola Glasser

7. Establishing paternity in judicial proceedings in Spain : what protection for human rights? / Encarna Roca and Isabel Miralles

8. Suing child welfare agencies : a comparative view from New Zealand / Bill Atkin and Geoff McLay

9. Adoption - a public or private legal process? : The changing social functions of adoption in Ireland and the wider implications for coherence in family law / Kerry O'Halloran

Part II. Practices: 10. Children and the transformation of family law / Carol Smart

11. In search of the 'good father' : law, family practices and the normative reconstruction of parenthood / Richard Collier

12. Different approaches to post-divorce family relationships : the example of contact centres in France / Benoit Bastard

13. Legal and educational interventions for families in residence and contact disputes / Joan B Kelly

14. Agents or dependants : children and the family law system / Pauline Tapp, Nicola Taylor and Mark Henaghan

15. The reconstituted family in Italian law and society / Valeria Mazzotta

16. Child-centred, vertically structured and interdisciplinary : an integrative approach to children's policy, practice and research / Annie G Steinberg, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse and Alyssa Burrell Cowan

17. Children's rights and the use of force in their own best interests / Jane Fortin

18. The lawyer-client relationship in family law : does client funding status make a difference? / Rosemary Hunter

19. The distribution of stock options on divorce and proposed changes in American divorce law / David S Rosettenstein

20. Registered partnership in the Netherlands / Gergor van der Burght

21. A comparative study of the transfer of family wealth : from privilege to equality / Maria Donata Panforti

22. The constitutional dimension of customary family law in Papua New Guinea / Owen Jessep

Part III. Pressures: 23. Law reform by frozen chook : family law reform for the new millennium? / Reg Graycar

24. Can international conventions drive domestic law reform? : The case of physical punishment of children / Elaine E Sutherland

25. Emancipation of the African woman : fact or fallacy? / Elmarie Knoetze

26. The state, race, religion and the family in England today / Michael Freeman

27. Men and women behaving badly : is fault dead in English family law? / Andrew Bainham

28. Macro social and economic factors in society which influence the success of financial rearrangements on divorce / Alastair Bissett-Johnson

29. De facto property developments in New Zealand : pressures impeded progress / Bill Atkin and Wendy Parker

30. Politics, processes and pressures of legislating for children in South Africa / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Belinda van Heerden

31. The introduction and impact of joint custody in Portugal / Maria Clara Sottomayor.

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