Research Handbook on Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law (Research Handbooks in Family Law series)

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: Marriage and cohabitation – Global debates, challenges, and perspectives
Part I Why marry? The meaning of modern marriage
1. What is the purpose of marriage in contemporary legal regulation?
2. Separating marriage from the state
3. The feminist case against marriage
Part II The varied forms of entry into marriage
4. Marriage formation in Europe from the late middle ages until the late eighteenth century
5. Universal civil marriage: A blueprint for the future or an idea whose time has passed?
6. The fractured landscape of South African marriage and family law: Future directions
7. Marriage, the law and pluralism in Ghana
Part III The changing boundaries of marriage
8. The (non)recognition of same-sex marriage in South Africa, Nigeria and Uganda
9. Polygamy in English marriage law: Critical postcolonial perspectives
10. Prohibiting polygamy, yet permitting plurality?
11. Child marriage: The denial of autonomy by conferring the status of marriage on a child
12. Exploring arranged marriage: Breaking biased frames and uncovering a much misunderstood marital institution
13. Comparative consanguinity law: A global study of cousin marriage regulations
Part IV Formal alternatives to marriage
14. Why registered partnerships? A comparative overview
15. Mixed-sex civil partnerships: A blank canvas or painting by numbers?
16. Twenty years of PACS: The specificities of the French civil union
17. Un-coupling family law revisited: Non-conjugal adult unions in family law
Part V Cohabitation and the legal reulgation of unformalised relationships
18. Demographic perspectives on cohabitation
19. Regulation of cohabitation in the Nordic countries
20. Cohabitation law reform in England and Wales: The case for reform and challenges of definition
21. Is cohabitation an obligation-free zone?
22. Cohabitation contracts and gender equality
Part VI The consequences of marriage and cohabitiation
23. Consummating in court
24. Complex relationships: Marriage and relationship status, procreation and criminal law
25. Unhappy families and lying wives: Myths and stereotypes about intimate partner violence
26. Prenuptial agreements in comparative perspective
27. The meaning of marriage and approaches to the division of assets in Sweden, the Netherlands and England and Wales
28. Relational vulnerability: A theory of family, unpaid work, and the state
Index