Research Handbook on International Family Law

Edited by Janeen M. Carruthers, Professor of Private Law and Bobby W.M. Lindsay, Lecturer in Private Law, University of Glasgow, UK

Contents:

1 Introduction to the research handbook on international family law 2
Janeen M Carruthers and Bobby WM Lindsay
2 Legal parentage and private international law: the establishment,
contestation and recognition of children’s legal parentage 12
Laura Carpaneto
3 Intercountry adoption: preventing and addressing illicit practices 32
Onyója Momoh
4 Habitual residence and nationality as personal law connecting factors in
European private international law 53
Magdalena Pfeiffer
5 Gender, identity and private international law 72
Susanne Lilian Gössl
6 Parental responsibility: cross-border recognition and enforcement
of decisions and agreements in family matters involving children –
problems of policy and practice 89
Kirsty J Hood KC
7 Protection of children at risk in a cross-border context – problems of
policy and practice 109
Ruth Lamont
8 International child relocation after relationship breakdown 130
Rhona Schuz
9 International child abduction, migration and asylum: what happens
when child abduction, migration and asylum collide? 153
Maria Caterina Baruffi
10 Marriage and cohabitation in private international law: regulating de
jure and de facto relationships 172
Lauren Clayton-Helm
11 Child, early and forced marriage – protecting rights and freedoms in the
international context 193
Janeen M Carruthers and Felicity Belton
12 Family maintenance and private international law 215
Lara Walker
13 Dissolution of adult relationships and the cross-border dimension 238
Máire Ní Shúilleabháin
14 Matrimonial and family property regimes in the cross-border European context 261
Ilaria Viarengo
15 Encouraging out-of-court resolution in cross-border family disputes 284
David Hodson OBE KC (Hon)
16 The contribution of the UK Supreme Court to international family law 306
Bobby WM Lindsay
17 The contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union to
international family law 330
Cristina González Beilfuss
18 The contribution of the United States Supreme Court to international
family law 348
Ann Laquer Estin
19 International family law and the UN sustainable development goals 2030 363
Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm and María Mercedes Albornoz