Includes index.

Contents: Proceedings: Divorce; judicial separation; nullity; presumption of death and dissolution; declaration of marital status; declaration of parentage; legitimacy and legitimation: The divorce petition -- Requirements on issue of petition -- Procedure-from issue of petition to directions for trial under special procedure provisions -- Answer and subsequent pleadings -- Amended, further and supplemental petitions -- Judicial involvement leading to decree nisi -- Decree absolute -- Disposal of suit other than by decree -- Other matrimonial decrees -- Declaratory decrees -- Financial applications: Financial applications within proceedings under the matrimonial causes act 1973 -- Other financial applications governed by the family proceedings rules 1991 -- Financial applications governed by the civil procedure rules 1998 -- Children: Section 41 of the matrimonial causes act 1973 -- Children-private law issues -- Wardship and child abduction -- Locating the whereabouts of a child -- Children and financial applications -- Injunctions and enforcement: Family homes and domestic violence -- Emergency applications -- Procedures for the enforcement of financial and costs orders -- Reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders -- Penal notices and committal applications -- The court record -- Appendices.