Divided Parents, Shared Children - Legal Aspects of (Residential) Co-Parenting in England, the Netherlands and Belgium (Paperback)

There has been much discussion worldwide on parenting after parental separation, especially on the desirability for the children involved of equally shared care (co-parenting) and the feasibility of legal arrangements in which the children alternate their residence between their parents' houses (residential co-parenting). Much is unclear about how residential co-parenting affects children and therefore how the legislator and practitioners should deal with this arrangement.Divided Parents, Shared Children seeks to answer three questions to further understand the phenomenon of co-parenting and to provide the legislator, the courts and parents with possible solutions: What kind of legal framework exists in England and Wales, the Netherlands and Belgium with regard to (residential) co-parenting and what can these countries learn from each other's legal systems? Does residential co-parenting occur in the countries discussed, and if so how predominant is it? Should these jurisdictions encourage or discourage residential co-parenting through legal action? To answer these questions, this book uses not only legal data, from both empirical and literature research, but also sociological, psychological and demographic studies into residential arrangements and their effect on children.

General

Imprint:	Intersentia
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	European Family Law, 39
Release date:	October 2015
Authors:	Natalie Nikolina
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-78068-341-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Family law
LSN:	1-78068-341-3
Barcode:	9781780683416

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SOME POINTERS

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 | Review by: Phillip T.

SOME POINTERS ON HOW TO CO-PARENT IN MODERN SOCIETY IN 21st CENTURY An appreciation by Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers and Reviews Editor, “The Barrister” Natalie Nikolina writes that “worldwide, there has been much discussion on the ways of parenting after parental separation, especially on the desirability for the children involved of equally-shared care (co-parenting) and the feasibility of legal arrangements in which the children alternate their residence between their parents' separate homes (residential co-parenting)”. Many of us have been involved, as practitioners here and in Holland and Belgium, dealing with the intricacies and emotional problems concerning child arrangements. This particular title is an important point of reference for lawyers and advisers dealing with these matters and gives us some refreshing new insights. Much is unclear about how residential co-parenting affects children and therefore how legislators and practitioners should deal with this form of arrangement which we have commonly called contact orders. What “Divided Parents - Shared Children” does is to seek to answer questions to gain some understand of “the phenomenon of co-parenting” and to provide the legislator (politicians), the courts (judiciary), and parents with some possible solutions. The solutions range from what kind of legal framework does or should exist in England and Wales, the Netherlands, and Belgium with regard to (residential) co-parenting, and what can each country learn from each other's legal systems for the future? One substantive question which arises in the book is: does residential co-parenting occur in the countries discussed, and, if so, how predominant is it? Nikolina also poses this point: should these jurisdictions encourage or discourage residential co-parenting through legal action? She concludes at the beginning that law cannot operate in a vacuum so she has included most useful demographic and sociological data to perform her task. And to answer these questions in detail, the book uses not only legal data from both empirical and literature research, but also these sociological, psychological, and demographic studies into residential arrangements and their effect on children which we believe will be of great assistance to professional advisers. This title is part of a series of books which are dedicated to “the harmonization and unification of family and succession law in Europe” and at such an important time for all member states of the European Union. The reader is given a high quality insight into comparative legal studies and materials from these works by Intersentia who are foremost in this particular field of research. In addition, scholars are given most useful advice on studies conducted on the effects of international and European law-making within the various national legal systems throughout Europe. What we found most helpful for advisers here in the United Kingdom is the availability of the books in the series in English, French and German under the direction of the Organising Committee of the Commission on European Family Law (CEFL). Thank you very much for producing the titles because they do make our professional lives so much easier giving us important pointers in the right direction. The law is as stated in 2017. The book forms part of the series European Family Law, Volume 39, covering European Law, Family Law, Children's Law, and Comparative Law.

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