Undergraduate

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

Laws modules

Family law [2660019]

(a) Marriage and divorce. Requirements of a valid marriage: form and capacity. Nullity. Divorce. Judicial separation.
(b) Domestic violence. Remedies for molestation and orders relating to occupation of the matrimonial home.
(c) Financial provision. The powers of the superior courts concerning financial provision for spouses and children, during marriage and on divorce. Types of order available and their duration and variation. Matrimonial proceedings in the magistrates’ courts. Social security aspects of financial provision (in outline). The Child Support Acts 1991 and 1995. Mediated Settlements under Family Law Act 1996.
(d) The law relating to children. Parent and child; proof of parentage, legal aspects of developments in artificial insemination, in vitro fertilisation and surrogacy; children’s rights; children born within and outside marriage; orders under s.8 of the Children Act 1989. Adoption; the powers of the local authority under the Children Act 1989; the inherent jurisdiction and wardship.