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    <title>Principles of family law</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cretney, Stephen Michael.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Sweet &amp; Maxwell</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1984</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>lxxx, 1018 p. : 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Marriage: the marriage ceremony -- Capacity to marry and nullity -- The Termination of marriage: Historical evolution of the divorce law -- The Modern law of divorce -- The Modern law of divorce-procedural aspects -- The Social policy of divorce legislation -- Termination of marriage by death -- Protection: Judicial separation -- Protection of the right to live in the family home and protection against domestic violence -- Children and family law: parent and child-introduction -- Parental rights, custody and guardianship: The legal framework -- Exercise of the court's discretion: The welfare principle -- The wardship jurisdiction -- Orders under the guardianship of minors acts 1971 and 1973 -- Statutory powers exercisable in matrimonial proceedings in the domestic court -- The statutory powers of the divorce court -- Custodianship -- Adoption -- Child law and welfare services -- The Modern law of child care -- Unmarried parents and their children -- Family financial obligations and property rights: The ownership of family property -- The Effect of bankruptcy on family property -- Devolution of family property on death -- The case for reform of family property  law -- Family financial obligations: introduction -- Financial remedies in the supreme courts -- Financial remedies in the domestic court -- "Private ordering" of financial matters -- The Supplementary benefit system and its impact in cases of family breakdown -- Other social security benefits -- The Impact of the tax system on financial arrangements on breakdown -- The Courts: the Court structure and family law.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by S.M. Cretney.</note>
  <note>"Table of cases": p. xvii-lv.</note>
  <note>"Table of statutes": p. lvii-lvxx.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Domestic relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KD750.C7 </classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0421288507 (pbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">84220692</identifier>
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