Research Handbook on Family Property and the Law

Edited by Margaret Briggs, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand and Andy Hayward, Durham Law School, Durham University, UK

Contents:

Foreword xiii
Mathew Thorpe
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Family Property and the Law 1
Margaret Briggs and Andy Hayward

PART I THE ORIGINS OF FAMILY PROPERTY
2 Family property in Roman law 14
Paul du Plessis
3 Family property law: a touchstone of long-term continuity and change
in societies 25
Alain Wijffels
4 Early modern family property: coverture and Dewar’s ‘familialisation’ 45
Emily Ireland
5 Family homes on indigenous lands: an illumination on the complexity
of family property law 61
Jacinta Ruru
6 Matrimonial property in Islamic law 77
Rajnaara C Akhtar and Faizal Ahmad Manjoo
7 Family property in Asia 92
Jianghao Xia
8 An African perspective on family property and customary law 104
Anthony C Diala

PART II THE RECIPIENTS OF FAMILY PROPERTY: WHO BENEFITS?
9 A queer perspective on property protections in marriage and other
registered partnerships 121
Erez Aloni
10 The evolution of family law: judicial recognition of the diversity of
modern marriage-like relationships in South Africa and beyond 139
Christa Rautenbach and Mitzi Wiese
11 Property rights of cohabitants in New Zealand 158
Margaret Briggs
12 Non-conjugal couples and legislated cohabitation 176
Nausica Palazzo
13 Children and the reach of family property: the rhetoric and the reality 196
Mark Henaghan and Christian Poland
14 Family property and entitlement upon death in England and Wales 214
Brian Sloan
15 Family property entitlements on death in New Zealand 231
Nicola Peart

PART III THE RECOGNITION AND REACH OF FAMILY
PROPERTY: WHAT PROPERTY IS COVERED?
16 Classification of community property: a US perspective 249
Sally Brown Richardson
17 The legal conceptualisation of family property interests in Australia 261
Henry Kha
18 Distribution of family property in Germany: family law and beyond 278
Christiane von Bary

PART IV THE REDISTRIBUTION OF FAMILY PROPERTY: HOW IS
FAMILY PROPERTY DISTRIBUTED?
19 Matrimonial property and marital agreements in comparative perspective 293
Jens M Scherpe
20 Community of property and separation of property in Belgium:
a gradual harmonisation in the name of fairness? 307
Geoffrey Willems
21 Family property in Chile 326
Fabiola Lathrop-Gómez
22 Switzerland: participation in acquisitions 344
Alexandra Jungo and Laura von Arb
23 Bespoke justice and equitable redistribution in Ireland: an optical illusion? 360
Kathryn O’Sullivan

PART V POLICY AND FAMILY PROPERTY
24 Who’s afraid of the gold digger? 376
Sharon Thompson
25 Financial remedies in England and Wales: what about the majority? 392
Emma Hitchings
26 Feminism and family property 408
Rosemary Auchmuty
27 Family property over time 426
Allison Tait

PART VI THE FRONTIERS OF FAMILY PROPERTY
28 Burns v Burns: the fable forty years on 443
Andy Hayward
29 Remaking family property law in the Anglo Caribbean 463
Tracy Robinson
30 Family property disputes in Singapore 482
Man Yip