Family Law in Jamaica
Author : Fara Brown
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 9789768167910
Author : Fara Brown
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 9789768167910
Author : Karen Tesheira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317624858
This important new text is the product of several years of research of the family law of fifteen Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions. It is the first and only legal text that comprehensively covers all the main substantive areas of spousal family law, including marriage, divorce, financial support, property rights and domestic violence. The rights of the statutory spouse in the jurisdictions of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are examined, thus addressing, on a jurisdictional basis, an important area of spousal family that is seldom covered in English family law texts. The book also covers the number and variations of divorce regimes applicable to the region – the matrimonial offence divorce model of Guyana and Montserrat, the English five fact model of Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Grenada, Anguilla, and St Vincent and the Grenadines, the hybrid model of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize and St Kitts and Nevis, and the no fault model of Jamaica and Barbados. This book will prove an indispensable resource for law students and legal academics, as well as for family law practitioners across the English-speaking Caribbean. Other professionals, including sociologists and social workers, will also find the book useful and informative.
Author : Zanifa McDowell
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789766400859
A comprehensive study of elements of child law in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It covers legitimacy, status of children legislation, parental rights, maintenance, family provision and succession to property, custody, adoption and care and protection issues.
Author : Suzanne LaFont
Publisher : Austin & Winfield Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN :
A classic study of the ways in which the law can be at odds with the society it seeks to protect, this study demonstrates how the recent reforms in Jamaican family legislation have failed to close the discrepancies between social laws reflecting a nuclear family structure and the needs of a culturally distinct population engaging in serial mating, out-of-wedlock births, and absentee paternity. Based on participant observations, interviews and close scrutiny of the local media as well as a thorough review of court documents, Lafont's compelling analysis explores how family courts have come to be used in Jamaica as weapons of redress and retaliation serving personal agendas. Presenting a well-documented examination of mating and child-rearing practices in Jamaica, it constitutes a thought-provoking study of law in relation to society that will be of interest to not only family lawyers and legislators, but also to sociologists and anthropologists. LaFont served as a Family Court Counselor in Kingston, Jamaica.
Author : Katrin FitzHerbert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Academic theses
ISBN :
Author : Gloria Cumper
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN :
Author : Gloria Cumper
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Judith Blake
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
This book illustrates the connections among innovation, policy and law and shows the ways in which the law can work as a key instrument of innovation policy. A cross-disciplinary study, it considers the ways in which the law has accommodated innovation, and the ways in which a legal framework for facilitating and managing new technologies has developed. As well as canvassing broad theoretical issues, the book presents a number of case studies relating to intellectual property, competition and trade and government sponsorship and entrepreneurship. Innovation, Policy and Law examines issues in public and industrial policy from the viewpoint of legal studies. It will therefore be of interest to readers in science and technology studies as well as legal professionals and those in government, the public sector and industry.
Author : Ruth Lamont
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : 019289353X
Family Law offers an engaging and debate-driven guide to the subject, with each chapter crafted by a team of highly experienced teachers writing on their specialist subject under the expert editorship of Ruth Lamont. Each chapter is a superbly clear guide to the topic, structured around the key debates central to that topic, which are then explored in detail throughout the chapter. Students are thereby introduced to an enlightening range of perspectives on the key issues in family law today, allowing them to formulate their own opinions and arguments. The social, economic, and political backdrop to each topic is also extensively discusssed to ensure that students' understanding is grounded in this essential context. Family Law is a critical and modern guide to this dynamic subject.