Rebecca Probert

The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation

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Produktbeschreibung

A radical revision of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107536302
• ISBN-10: 1107536308
• Artikelnr.: 42580419

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. She has taught family law for over a decade and published widely on both contemporary family law and its history.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Fornicators: the punishment of illicit sex
3. No name: law, morality and precedent
4. Unmarried wives in war and peace
5. Living in sin: concerns and changes
6. 'Stable illicit unions': cohabitation and the reform of divorce law
7. Common-law wives: the 1970s and the creation of a myth
8. Live-in lovers: trying to get back to basics
9. Partners: New Labour and neutrality
10. Conclusion.