Sharing Lives, Dividing Assets : An Inter-Disciplinary Study
Joanna. Miles
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Hart Publishing Limited, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (340 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Prelims; Preface; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Part I General Issues; 1 Sharing Lives, Dividing Assets; 2 The Perils of Reforming Family Law and the Increasing Need for Empirical Research, 1980-2008; Part II Work, Money and Property within Intimate Relationships: Expectations and Actions; 3 Paid and Unpaid Work; 4 Managing Money in Intimate Relationships; 5 Financial Practices in Cohabiting Heterosexual Couples; 6 The Role of Personal Relationships in Borrowing, Saving and Over-indebtedness; Part III Dividing the Assets on Relationship Breakdown. - 7 Money, Property, Cohabitation and Separation8 Financial Arrangements on the Breakdown of Cohabitation; 9 Chaos or Consistency?; 10 Self-determination or Judicial Imposition?; 11 Who Wins, Who Loses and Who Recovers from Divorce?; 12 Pension Accumulation and Gendered Household Structures; Part IV A Rational Approach?; 13 Rational Decision-making and Intimate Cohabitation; 14 Legal Rationality and Family Property; Index. - With many couples separating each year, the question of how to determine the financial and property consequences of such separation has always been a problem area within family law. Should the principles be the same for married and cohabiting couples? Should the division of assets reflect the parties' own expectations or norms imposed by society? These are just two of the questions which the essays in this collection seek to explore. Recent cases in the House of Lords have seen willingness on the part of the judges to seek out empirical studies to inform their deliberations, but if the law is
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| ISBN | 9781841132594
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