Includes appendix and index.

Content: Marriage and its termination: Formation of marriage -- Capacity to marry-annulment -- The Modern law of divorce: Introduction -- The Modern law of divorce: Substantive law -- The Modern law of divorce: Further reform needed? -- Judicial separation and protection against marital violence -- Property and financial aspects of family law: Matrimonial property -- Matrimonial property regimes -- Occupation of the matrimonial home -- Financial remedies-I -- Financial remedies-II: Divorce, etc -- Money and the family outside marriage -- Children and family law: Parental authority: What it is, and who can exercise it -- The Welfare principle -- The Wardship procedure -- Children in family breakdown -- Long term arrangements for substitute parenting -- The Child, the family and the state -- The Child of the family outside marriage.