Butterworths Family Law Service

Binder 1: Relationships and Their Breakdown

The first interview: choice of remedy and immediate action; Marriage; The Gender Recognition Act 2004; Grounds for proceedings in nullity; Grounds for proceedings in divorce and judicial separation; Conflict resolution, collaborative practice and mediation in family law; Cohabitation; Domestic violence; The Civil Partnership Act 2004; Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc, Precedents; Index;

Binder 2: Family Courts: Jurisdiction and Procedure

Jurisdiction; Procedure; Appeals; Costs; Legal aid (public funding); Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Precedents; Index;

Binder 3 (I): Children Narrative

The fundamental principles of the Children Act 1989; Parentage; Parental responsibility; The exercise and discharge of parental responsibility; Guardianship; Family proceedings; Local authority support for children and families; Local authority duties to looked after children; Leaving local authority accomodation; Local authority complaints procedure; Local authority support for children: inter-agency co-operation; Secure accommodation; Care and supervision orders; Education supervision orders; Child protection; Child assessment order; Emergency protection orders; Police protection powers; Abduction of children in care and recovery orders; Adoption: background and general principles; The Adoption Service; Adoption agencies: planning for children, and approving adopters; Adoption agencies: matching children with adopters, and reviews; Placement for adoption; Adoption; Adoption societies and adoption agency records; Adoption support agencies; Adoption registers and disclosure of information; Independent reviews of determinations; Restrictions in relation to adoption; Power of minister; Adoption and the courts; Special guardianship; Case management responsibilities and professional conduct; Case preparation and procedure; The use of expert witnesses (1): procedural matters; The use of expert witnesses (2): use in particular kinds of case; Burden/standard of proof and findings of fact; Evidence: law and practice; Privilege; Disclosure within proceedings/privilege; Disclosure beyond proceedings/confidentiality; Judgment; The participation of children in proceedings: professionals involved; Children not party to proceedings; Children with automatic party status: specified proceedings; Children made party by order of the court; The courts: statutory jurisdiction and procedure; Attendance at and reporting of children proceedings; The courts: wardship and the inherent jurisdiction; Index;

Binder 3 (II): Children Materials

Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc;

Binder 4(I): Property, Money and Tax-Narrative

Ownership and occupation of family property; Child support and financial provision for children; Financial provision where there are no proceedings for divorce, nullity or judicial separation; Financial and property provision in proceedings for divorce, nullity or judicial separation; Ancillary relief proceedings: special considerations; Ancillary relief proceedings: practice and procedure; Ancillary relief proceedings: costs; Preservation of assets; Applications for financial relief in England and Wales after a foreign divorce, annulment or legal separation; Enforcement of orders; Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; Implications of welfare benefits; Taxation; Tax credits; Index;

Binder 4(II): Property, Money and Tax-Materials

Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Precedents;

Binder 5: Human Rights and International

Jurisdiction; Recognition of overseas marriages and divorces; Reciprocal enforcement of financial orders; Child abduction; Adoption with an international element; Human rights and the family; Statutes and Conventions; Statutory Instruments; Practice Directions, Circulars etc; Index;

Binder 6: Welfare benefits

Introduction; Income support; Jobseeker's allowance; The replacement of working families' tax credit by working tax credit and child tax credit; Child benefit and one-parent benefit; Housing benefits; Council tax benefit; Statutes; Statutory Instruments; Index;

Binder 7: Bulletins; Tables; Index; Checklist

General Editors:

Richard Sax, MA (Oxon), Solicitor, Consultant, Manches, Governor and Vice-President of the European Chapter of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Jonathan Montgomery, BA, LLM, Professor of Law, University of Southampton.

Consultant Editor:

The Honourable Mr Justice Sumner. Editors: John Baker, Solicitor; H K Bevan, JP, LLM, Hon LLD, Barrister, Emeritus Professor of English Law, University of Hull, Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge; Her Honour Judge Helen Black; Sarah Deeks, LLB, FCA, tax writer/editor; H Howard, LLB, Accredited Family Mediator and Lawy