Love And The Law

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen And Unwin
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 212 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Love is a basic human experience, important for one's identity and happiness. Generally the law has nothing to say to love, but sometimes it is necessary to protect the weak and the vulnerable in and out of love. Jan Bowen has an established skill in writing about the law in ways that non-lawyers can understand and lawyers can admire. In this book she shows the strengths and weaknesses of the law's operation when love and law come face to face.' -Justice Michael Kirby, AC CMG, High Court of Australia The law has manoeuvred its way into most of our waking hours, and our personal lives are far from an exception. Love and the Law captures just what an overlap there is between such seemingly opposite ideas. In her latest book, Australia's best known 'law-for-the-layperson' author, Jan Bowen, answers all those questions which you don't want to know about but can't help asking: 'What do you mean, we've been living together for two years, hand over the keys?', 'Can you sue before the ceremony's over?', 'Credit card bill? But I've cancelled the card!'. Beyond guarding against lovers' quarrels, Love and the Law examines the rights of kids, the legal consequences of separation or divorce, contraception, sexual assault and other offences, same-sex relationships, co-habitation agreements, restraining orders, joint bank accounts and sexually transmitted debt . . . Any legal issue which arises out of our family or sexual relationships is covered in an objective, clear and non-intimidatory way and illustrated with case studies.

ISBN: 9781865081700