A Practical Guide to Family Proceedings: Blomfield and Brooks

6th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5265-0177-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, 1432 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 248 mm

Reihe: Bloomsbury Family Law

Are you concerned about falling foul of the pitfalls across the spectrum of modern family proceedings?

Established as a straightforward, easy-to-follow handbook of procedure, A Practical Guide to Family Proceedings: Blomfield and Brooks offers step-by-step guidance on the effective conduct of all the most common types of family law application.

Fully revised and restructured in line with the changes resulting from the creation of the Family Court, the new Sixth Edition includes:

-Coverage of the updated procedure for Presumption of Death applications
- New chapters covering jurisdiction in children proceedings, public law for the private law practitioner, vulnerable witnesses and an introduction to appeals
- Up to date with all recent amendments to the Family Procedure Rules

Widely referred to within the Family Court, Principal Registry of the Family Division, other district registries and county courts, it is an essential reference work for family law practitioners whether as an aide-memoire for the hardpressed specialist or as an introduction for the less experienced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, District Judge Richard

Simmonds, District Judge Christopher

Hickman, Neil

Thambyrajah, Joanne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brooks, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Divorce Petition
Chapter 2: Requirements on Issue of Petition
Chapter 3: Procedure - From Issue of Petition to Application for Decree Nisi
Chapter 4: Answer and Subsequent Pleadings
Chapter 5: Judicial Involvement Leading to Decree Nisi
Chapter 6: Decree Absolute
Chapter 7: Concluding Applications Other than by Decree or Final Order
Chapter 8: Other Matrimonial Decrees
Chapter 9: Declaratory Decrees
Chapter 10: Civil Partnership
Chapter 11: Applications for a Financial Order with Proceedings under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004
Chapter 12: Other Financial Applications
Chapter 13: Children and Financial Applications
Chapter 14: Financial Applications Governed by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998
Chapter 15: Procedures for the Enforcement of Financial and Costs Orders
Chapter 16: Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders

Chapter 17: Jurisdiction in Child Proceedings
Chapter 18: Children - Private Law Issues

Chapter 19: Enforcement of Children Act Orders
Chapter 20: Locating the Whereabouts of a Child

Chapter 21: Wardship and Child Abduction

Chapter 22: Public Law for the Private Law Practitioner

Chapter 23: Family Homes and Domestic Violence

Chapter 24: Emergency Applications

Chapter 25: Penal Notices, Undertakings and Committal Applications
Chapter 26: Court Bundles
Chapter 27: Expert Witnesses in Family Proceedings

Chapter 28: Vulnerable Witnesses in Family Proceedings

Chapter 29: Appeals
Chapter 30: The Court Record

Appendix A: Precedents and Forms
Appendix B: Blood and DNA Tests
Appendix C: Other Information
Appendix D: Rules and Supplementary Practice Directions
Appendix E: European Regulations

Über Autor(innen)

Simmonds, District Judge Christopher
Christopher Simmonds has been a Family Circuit Judge since the 3rd April 2018 now sitting at Bournemouth. He was originally a District Judge appointed in 2010. He sat in the Principal Registry of the Family Division until his transfer to the Western Circuit in November 2015. His is the Lead Regional Judge for the Court of Protection (South West), a former Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission and former Course Directors at the Judicial College (Family). Before being appointed he was a Solicitor and Partner in the firm of Davis Simmonds & Donaghey specialising in Public Law Proceedings and a member of the Children Panel. He has written numerous articles on family law to include section 38(6) Applications and Secure Accommodation Orders.

District Judge Richard Robinson, Principal Registry of the Family Division
District Judge Christopher Simmonds, District Judge of the Central Family Court
Neil Hickman, former District Judge
Joanne Thambyrajah, Secretary to Family Procedure Rule Committee