Family law for the Hong Kong SAR

Includes bibliographical references and indexFamily Law for the Hong Kong SAR gives a succinct, clear and comprehensive account of modern family law and will be useful to both students and practitioners. This book incorporates recent developments in family law such as the Marriage and Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 1997, Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions and Minor Amendments) Ordinance 1997 and the Child Abduction and Custody Ordinance 1997. Contents include: the old-style customary marriage, concubinage, modern marriage, and Christian marriage; nullity and divorce; legitimacy and illegitimacy; parentage; parental rights and authority; the welfare principle; custody on divorce; adoption; wardship; child abduction; maintenance during marriage; financial provision and property on divorce, and domestic violencepublished_or_final_version8 Parental rights and authority p2117 Parentage p1939 Welfare of the child p24510 Children on family breakdown p27511 Adoption p29112 Wardship p32113 International child abduction p33314 Maintenance obligations during marriage p35115 Money and property on divorce p36316 Financial provision for children p41317 Settlement, consent order and variation p42118 Child protection p43919 Protection against domestic violence p459Pt.III Financial provision for family members p349Pt.II Children p177Pt.I Marriage and its termination p1Index p477Table of legislation pxxxviiTables of cases pxiPreface / Athena Nga Chee Liu pviiPt.IV Protection p4371 Customary marriage, union of concubinage and modern marriage p32 Dissolution under the Marriage Reform Ordinance p553 Marriage under the Marriage Ordinance p734 Divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance p995 Nullity and judicial separation p1416 Status p17