Adult Relationships in Family Law

Description

Author: Dr Kieran Walsh Atkins | ISBN:  9781917134286 | Format: Paperback | Price:  €99  | Publishing:  Summer 2026

About

Adult Relationships in Family Law outlines the legal rules relating to the family life of adults in Ireland. It examines the formation and dissolution of relationships, as well as the property consequences of relationship breakdown for married and unmarried couples. In addition, it analyses the State’s response to domestic abuse, including the remedies available to victims.

This book also explores private international family law, from the recognition of foreign marriages to the recognition and enforcement of maintenance orders.

Focusing on the substantive law, rather than practice and procedure, Adult Relationships in Family Law will be invaluable to both academics and practitioners. Its outlines and explores the legal regulation of intimate relationships in unparalleled depth and breadth. It does so by relying not only on the extraordinary proliferation of Irish judgments concerning family matters, but also the most important global scholarship charting how the current rules came to be as well as how they are working.

Adult Relationships in Family Law provides significant coverage of international legal issues affecting families, including an analysis of relevant EU, ECHR, and Hague Conference developments.

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Content Includes

Chapter 1 The Constitutional Regulation of Adult Relationships

Chapter 2 Formal Relationships: Marriage and Civil Partnership

Chapter 3 Nullity Of Marriage

Chapter 4 Separation, Divorce and Dissolution

Chapter 5 Private Ordering of Financial Disputes

Chapter 6 Ancillary Relief I – Concepts and Principles

Chapter 7 Ancillary Relief II – Preliminary and Ancillary Orders

Chapter 8 Financial Support in Family Law

Chapter 9 The Rights and Duties of Cohabitants

Chapter 10 Family Property

Chapter 11 Domestic Abuse

Chapter 12 Private International Law and Adult Relationships

 

About the Author

Dr Kieran Walsh Atkins is Associate Professor of Law, Families and Society at the University of Portsmouth. A graduate of both UCC and King’s Inns, he practised in family law at the Irish bar before moving into full-time academic work. He completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham and has published extensively on family and child law in both Ireland and the UK.

Who Should Buy This Book?

Adult Relationships in Family Law is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook written for both legal academics and practitioners.  This book will also be of great interest to anyone with a general interest in family law.