Includes index.

Contents: General matters: the First interview -- Community legal service fund and public funding for family proceedings -- Divorce: the decree -- The Ground for divorce and the five facts -- Bar on presentation of divorce petitions within one year of marriage -- Jurisdiction in divorce -- Drafting a divorce petition -- Undefended divorce: procedure for obtaining the decree -- Amended, supplemental, and new petitions -- Protection of respondents in separation cases: SS.5 and 10, matrimonial causes act 1973 -- Ancillary relief after divorce: Ancillary relief orders available -- Procedure for ancillary relief applications -- Child support act 1991 and subsequent amendments -- Preventing and setting aside dispositions under s.37, matrimonial causes act 1973 -- Collection and enforcement of ancillary relief orders -- Variation of ancillary relief orders -- Financial provision and property during marriage: financial provision and property during marriage -- Separation and maintenance agreements -- Taxation: tax considerations -- Welfare benefits: Welfare benefits -- Occupation orders and non-molestation orders: Part IV of the family law act 1996: Occupation orders and non-molestation orders: Part IV of the family law act 1996 -- General matters concerning the home and property: the home: preventing a sale of mortgage -- Establishing an interest in property - section 17, married women's property act 1882 and the law relating to constructive and resulting trusts -- The Question of wills -- Children: The children act 1989 - the section 8 orders and general principles -- Procedures for obtaining a section 8 order -- Preventing the removal of a child from the jurisdiction -- Cohabitants: cohabitants -- The Human rights act 1998: the human rights act 1998 and its impact on family law.