International family law has emerged as an important subject in its own right and has become part of the everyday work of family court judges and family law practitioners across the country. International family law presents many puzzles, especially in the United States. This book takes a broad approach to the subject, bringing together the law applicable to a wide range of cross-border family issues. Designed to serve as a compact and useful resource and reference tool, the chapters that follow address marriage, divorce, the financial aspects of divorce, parentage and parental rights, custody and child abduction litigation, child support and intercountry adoption. Each chapter builds on the foundation established by treaties and uniform acts, and incorporates case law, the Restatements, and important secondary sources whenever possible. The book includes extensive discussion of the international treaties that have come to form the basis for reciprocal relationships between the United States and more than 85 other nations, but it focuses on the law applied to these transnational family issues in the United States. Although written primarily for U.S. practitioners, it will hopefully also be of use to foreign lawyers and judges with an interest in understanding the U.
S. system.
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
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978-1-61438-317-8 (9781614383178)
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Ann Laquer Estin has been teaching and writing about family law for more than 20 years and currently holds the Aliber Family Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law. She is an active member of the International Society of Family Law, and has attended numerous meetings of the Hague Conference on Private International Law focused on the four Hague Children's Conventions. She is also a frequent participant in meetings of U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on Private International Law. Her international work was recognized with a Global Scholar award from the University of Iowa in 2009. Ann's publications include many law review articles and several other books: The Multi-Cultural Family (2008), Global Issues in Family Law (with Barbara Stark) (2007), and Cases and Problems in Domestic Relations (with Homer H. Clark, Jr.) (7th ed. 2005). Before coming to the University of Iowa in 1999, she taught as the University of Colorado Law School, and practiced law in Denver, Colorado. She is a member of the bar in Colorado and Iowa, and a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She edits a blog on international family law issues at www.familiesacrossborders.com.
