What happens when a child is kidnapped from home by his or her own parent? What are the emotional and psychological consequences of living in hiding for weeks,

International child abduction is one of the most emotionally charged and fascinating areas of family law practice. The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspect

Recent stories of long-term abduction have flooded our current news. Everyone wants to know why children stay with their captor even when opportunity presents i

Analyses marriage law's development since 1836-its complexity, failures to respond to societal change, and constraints on different beliefs.

The first part of the book critically evaluates the evolution of the separate intra-EU child abduction regime and examines the extent to which the European Unio