Family law 10905 221545454 2008-06-25T00:00:10Z Scribe 13 3803929 /* Further reading */ {{otheruses4|the legal concept|the television drama|Family Law (TV series)|}} {{FamilyLaw}} '''Family law''' is an area of the [[law]] that deals with [[family|family-related]] issues and [[domestic relations]] including, but not limited to: *the nature of [[marriage]], [[civil union]]s, and [[domestic partnership]]s; *issues arising during marriage, including [[spousal abuse]], [[legitimacy (law)|legitimacy]], [[adoption]], [[surrogacy]], [[child abuse]], and [[child abduction]] *the termination of the relationship and ancillary matters including [[divorce]], [[annulment]], [[property settlement]]s, [[alimony]], and [[parental responsibility (access and custody)|parental responsibility]] orders (in the [[United States]], [[child custody]] and [[contact (law)|visitation]], [[child support]] awards). This list is by no means dispositive of the potential issues that come through the [[family court]] system. In many [[jurisdiction]]s in the United States, the family [[court]]s see the most crowded [[docket]]s. [[litigant|Litigants]] representative of all [[social class|social]] and [[economic class]]es are parties within the [[judicial system|system]]. For the [[Conflict of Laws]] elements dealing with transnational and interstate issues, see [[marriage (conflict)]], [[divorce (conflict)]] and [[nullity (conflict)]]. ==Criticism of the Adversarial System in Family Law== {{Main|Fathers' rights movement}} Members over the fathers' rights movement criticize the win or lose [[Adversarial system|adversarial system]] currently used in most Western countries to determine divorce and child custody issues, and define "winning custody" not as the right to parent one's children, but as the power to prevent someone else from parenting his children with the help of the government.<ref name="Taken Into Custody 21">{{cite book | last =Baskerville | first =Stephen | title = Taken Into Custody - The War Against Fathers, Marriage and the Family | publisher = Cumberland House | comment =page 21 | date = 2007 | accessdate =2007-10-22 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist|2}} <div class="references-small"> </div> ==Further reading== * [http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/Pub%20Whitehead%20Testimony%20Apr%2004.htm Testimony of Barbara DaFoe Whitehead, Ph.D, Co-Director, National Marriage Project Rutgers University, before US Senate Subcommitee] * [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/conversation/july-dec00/wallerstein_12-19.htm Wallerstein, Judith, Ph.D., "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce", an analysis of the long-term effect of divorce on children; NPR interview (2000)] {{Law}} ==See also== *[[Fathers' rights]] **[[Marriage strike]] *[[Same-Sex Marriage]] Different jurisdictions *[[Algerian Family Code]] *[[Family Court of Australia]] **[[Australian family law]] *[[Mudawana]] (The [[Moroccan]] Family Code). *[[Family law system in England and Wales]] **[[The Children Act]] 1989 **Sir [[Morris Finer]] - Report on One Parent Families *[[Civil Code of the Philippines]] [[Category:Divorce]] [[Category:Family law|Family law]] [[Category:Marriage]] [[bg:Семейно право]] [[de:Familienrecht]] [[et:Perekonnaõigus]] [[el:Οικογενειακό Δίκαιο]] [[es:Derecho de familia]] [[fr:Droit de la famille]] [[ko:가족법]] [[hr:Obiteljsko pravo]] [[it:Diritto di famiglia]] [[he:דיני משפחה]] [[lt:Šeimos teisė]] [[nl:Personen- en familierecht]] [[ja:家族法]] [[pl:Prawo rodzinne]] [[pt:Direito de família]] [[ru:Семейное право]] [[sl:Družinsko pravo]] [[sh:Obiteljsko pravo]] [[sv:Familjerätt]] [[tr:Aile hukuku]]