ATTORNEY DANIE VICTOR HAS BEEN PRACTICING LAW IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA SINCE 1991.

Debates over family law are a sensitive subject in the Muslim world, revealing something of the struggle between forces of traditionalism and modernism. The highly disparate tendencies within Islamic "fundamentalism" share a desire to re-institute Shar'ia law, regarded as the last bastion of the Islamic ideal of social relations. This book probes the theory and practice of Islamic family law in the contemporary Muslim world, focusing on the dynamics of marriage and the consequences of its breakdown, and the ways in which litigants manipulate the law to resolve marital and child custody disputes.

This short helpful guidebook is written for men with questions about what to expect in a domestic violence case, and how to protect themselves. It uses a clear, direct style without confusing legal terms, to answer the questions most men ask, providing real-world solutions to everyday situations. This book is designed for a man to go directly to the answers he needs.The case studies section describes real cases and results. The bonus essays are packed with legal information.

Larry Stone, MFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, practicing in Northern California. This book draws not only on his experience as a therapist working with individuals and couples in distress, but also on his work as a Court Appointed Child Custody Evaluator, and as a co-parenting counselor with Court mandated clients, as well as on his personal experience as a single parent and co-parent. He presents a compelling, must read, description of the effects of high conflict adversarial divorce on the family, especially the children, and shows us a clear path to lowering the conflict and finding healthier alternatives. This book should be considered required reading for anyone going through, considering, or recovering from, divorce

This short helpful guidebook is written for men with questions about what to expect in a divorce. It uses a clear, direct style without confusing legal terms, to answer the questions most men ask, providing real-world solutions to everyday situations. This book is designed for a man to go directly to the answers he needs about Real Property, Pensions, and Child Support or Custody. The case studies section describes real cases and results.

This Probate book provides all the forms and legal guides to help you understand the probate process from start to finish. All the forms and court documents are also provided to help save you thousands of dollars in legal fees. For all other legal forms and/or court documents not included due to content and page limitation, we invite you to visit our lowest priced site on the web where all legal forms, court documents and forms packages are especially priced at $39.99. www.alllegaldocuments.com

In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence 2,700 court opinions describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections. In compelling, poignant, and sometimes horrifying court cases, West finds that Japanese judges frequently opine on whether a person is in love, what other emotions a person is feeling, and whether those emotions are appropriate for the situation.

Sometimes judges' views about love, sex, and marriage emerge from their presentation of the facts of cases. Among the recurring elements are abortions forced by men, compensated dating, late-life divorces, termination fees to end affairs, sexless couples, Valentine's Day heartbreak, "soapland" bath-brothels, and home-wrecking hostesses.

Sometimes the judges' analysis, decisions, and commentary are as revealing as the facts. Sex in the cases is a choice among private "normal" sex, which is male-dominated, conservative, dispassionate, or nonexistent; commercial sex, which caters to every fetish but is said to lead to rape, murder, and general social depravity; and a hybrid of the two, which commodifies private sexual relationships. Marriage is contractual; judges express the ideal of love in marriage and proclaim its importance, but virtually no one in the court cases achieves it. Love usually appears as a tragic, overwhelming emotion associated with jealousy, suffering, heartache, and death."

This book examines the potential impact of human rights in the way the law interacts with families. Traditionally family law has been dominated by consequentialist/utilitarian themes. The most notable example of this occurs in the law relating to children and the employment of the "welfare principle". This requires the court to focus on the welfare of the child as the paramount consideration. Hitherto the courts and, to a certain extent, family law academics, have firmly rejected the use of the language of rights, preferring the discretion and child-centred focus of welfare. However, the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights via the Human Rights Act now requires family law to deal more clearly with the competing rights that family members can hold. In addition, it is clear that, to date, the courts have largely ignored or minimised the different demands that the HRA imposes on the judiciary and, in particular, judicial reasoning. This book challenges that view and suggests ways in which the family courts may improve their reasoning in this field. No longer can cases be dealt with on the basis of a simple utilitarian calculation of what is in the best interests of the child and other family members - greater transparency is required. The book clarifies the different rights that family members can hold and, in particular, identifies ways in which it may be possible to deal with the clash of rights between family members that will inevitably occur. Whether this requires an abandonment of the utilitarian nature of family law, or a reworking of it, is a theme that runs throughout the book.

This short helpful guide on the intricacies of Child Custody is written with the needs and wants of men in mind. Direct answers to the most asked questions, with explanations that are in regular English, make this book readable and useful. The case studies, and the Essays for Fathers are bonus features, that highlight the law of Child Custody.

Military Divorce Tips, for the service member, the soon-to-be-former spouse, and their attorneys, provides a solid foundation for a basic understanding of military divorce issues. This efficient reference tool provides quick insight to the complexities involved without delving too heavily into the U.S. Codes themselves. At the same time, attorneys are able to use the footnotes if sources are needed for litigation. An awareness of the basics can lessen the economic and emotional turmoil of divorce. Consultations with financial advisors and divorce lawyers will be more productive, less time consuming, and less expensive after reading the topics included in this book.

NOTE : This book is superceded by our 2nd edition, re-titled to "They're Your Kids Too: The Single Father's Guide to Defending Your Fatherhood in a Broken Family Law System" Our new edition includes new material (including on Parental Alienation), check lists, and a comprehensive directory of legal organizations in all 50 states - please order the new edition here: http: //www.amazon.com/Theyre-Your-Kids-Too-Fatherhood/dp/061551443X/ Or search Amazon for "They're Your Kids Too Defending Fatherhood"

This second edition collection of Legal Letters written by Attorney Andrew Agatston to Children's Advocacy Centers, child advocates and detectives builds upon the 2009 book, "The Legal Eagles of Children's Advocacy Centers: A Lawyer's Guide to Soaring in the Courtroom." It is critical for Children's Advocacy Center professionals, and others who work on behalf of children who have alleged sexual abuse, to have a thorough understanding of the legal system and the legal rules and requirements that directly affect their professional responsibilities. This book is a second collection of Legal Letters that Mr. Agatston has written to his "Legal Eagles" as part of his weekly List Serv that now has subscribers in 35 states.

The provisions for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act fall into four categories: a revised sex offender registration system, child and sex related amendments to federal criminal and procedure, child protective grant programs, and other initiatives designed to prevent and punish sex offenders and those who victimise children. This book provides a full analysis of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act and other recent legislation and issues in the sex offender registration and community notification laws. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

How To Lose A Custody Battle is a satirical look at the nightmarish quagmire of the Family Court System. Dr. Saturley has worked with over 500 families by court order and has seen the best, and the worst, that families have to offer. This book contains twenty-five sure fired things to avoid if you are neck deep in a custody battle with the other parent of your children. Using vignettes and his ever popular, "Doc Joe's Words of Wisdom," Dr. Saturley provides an entertaining and informative inside view of custody.

If you are like most people who are going through a divorce, you would prefer to keep things civil -- especially if you have children. Unfortunately, even relatively friendly breakups can become acrimonious once the courts get involved. Couples with the best of intentions find themselves paying their attorneys thousands of dollars to haggle over issues that, in the long run, really don t matter.

"Divorce Mediation from the Inside Out" presents a better option for couples who want to get on with their lives. Speaking from years of experience as a divorce mediator, Ora Schwartzberg explains why mediation not only costs substantially less than going to court, but also results in more relevant, fair resolutions. If you want to divorce with dignity and develop a blueprint for a satisfying life after your marriage ends, this book will set you on the right path.

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 to engage with empirical data then much more information is needed, both about the arrangements people make during their relationships, and about the impact of the law when a relationship breaks down. This inter-disciplinary work brings together leading academics in the fields of law, economics, sociology and psychology in an attempt to provide some of the missing empirical information. Part I sets out the legal framework and identifies the importance of empirical studies for this area. Part II examines how couples (whether cohabitants or spouses) manage their money during their relationships. Part III then considers the impact that the law currently has on separating couples - examining how legal principles translate into reality and what their consequences are for the parties. Finally, Part IV considers the issue of legal rationality: it may be rational for the law to be shaped by patterns of behaviour, but how far will individual couples allow their behaviour to be shaped by the law?

A Father's Right to Custody is the first book of its kind; written by a lawyer from a legal perspective, for the fathers, their lawyers, judges, and experts who want to understand the law and how it operates in a child custody decision involving a father's decision to raise his children when the mother of the child decides otherwise. The book details by each state the law that applies in that state for an initial child custody determination as well as a change or modification of child custody. A significant aspect of the book is that it also contains a summary of every case in the country that addresses Parental Alienation; again organized by state. The book also includes articles by the founding, and some of the current leading expert psychologists, on the subject to explain the elements of Parental Alienation. About the author: Julia Luyster is licensed to practice law in Florida and Washington D.C. and soon will be licensed in Minnesota. She hopes that this book will help and console the many fathers she has met or talked to who are separated from their children against their will.

This is the second edition of The Private Investigator's Legal Manual, first published in 2005. The second edition includes expanded sections from the first edition, new sections, and analysis of numerous new laws and cases reflecting important changes and developments affecting California private investigators and the attorneys who hire and represent them. The Manual remains the only complete source for answers to the often tricky and difficult legal issues unique to California private investigators.

These essays explore the nature and limits of individual autonomy in law, policy and the work of regulatory agencies. Authors ask searching questions about the nature and scope of the regulation of 'private' lives, from intimacies, personal relationships and domestic lives to reproduction. They question the extent to which the law does, or should, protect individual autonomy. Recent rapid advances in the development of new technologies - particularly those concerned with human genetics and assisted reproduction - have generated new questions (practical, social, legal and ethical) about how far the state should intervene in individual decision making. Is there an inevitable tension between individual liberty and the common good? How might a workable balance between the public and the private be struck? How, indeed, should we think about 'autonomy'? The essays explore the arguments used to create and maintain the boundaries of autonomy - for example, the protection of the vulnerable, public goods of various kinds, and the maintenance of tradition and respect for cultural practices. Contributors address how those boundaries should be drawn and interventions justified. How are contemporary ethical debates about autonomy constructed, and what principles do they embody? What happens when those principles become manifest in law?

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Helping readers to make rational decisions in an irrational time, this expert guide takes women through the practical issues of divorce--especially the things their lawyer may not reveal. When it comes to divorce, what you don't know CAN hurt you...and sometimes, women need more than just a lawyer's advice to help them through this complicated and confusing time. That's why divorce consultant Margery Rubin has created What Your Divorce Lawyer May Not Tell You, a unique guide for the woman working to stay afloat during one of the most difficult times of her life. Learn: - How to select the right lawyer and negotiate a price you can afford. - Why waiting to consult an attorney--even if you're not sure you're going to file for divorce--can be a costly mistake. - Where to look for important financial information that your spouse might be hiding. - How to build in "safeguards" to your custody agreement to prevent costly court battles later on. Packed with the author's expertise--gained first during the breakup of her own marriage to a top divorce attorney, and then as the founder of DivorceSource, a consulting firm dedicated to advising women on how to navigate divorce proceedings--this book gives women invaluable, step-by-step advice on everything they need to survive their marriage's end...and get on with the rest of their lives.

This book examines the idea of 'parental responsibility' in English law and what is expected of a responsible parent. The scope of 'parental responsibility', a key concept in family law, is undefined and often ambiguous. Yet, to date, more attention has been paid to how individuals acquire parental responsibility than to the question of the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities they have once they obtain it. This book redresses the balance by providing the first sustained examination of the different elements of parental responsibility, bringing together leading scholars to comment on specific aspects of its operation. The book begins by exploring the conceptual underpinnings of parental responsibility in the context of parents' and children's rights. The analysis highlights the inherent constraints and limitations of 'parental responsibility' and how its scope has deliberately been curtailed in certain contexts. The book then considers what parental responsibility allows and requires in specific areas, for example, naming a child, education, religious upbringing, medical treatment, corporal punishment, dealing with any contracts entered into or property owned by the child, representing the child in legal proceedings, consenting to a child's marriage or civil partnership and the law's response to the death of a child. In the final section, the idea of the 'responsible parent' is considered in the contexts of child support, contact, tort, and criminal law.