Family Law and Personal Life

Family Law and Personal Life, 2nd Edition, examines how legal systems govern personal relationships within the context of social and personal power. The text considers whether the state should encourage a particular model of family life for stability or allow individuals to make their own relationship choices.

A central premise of the work is that individual rights, including human rights and children's rights, counterbalance social and personal power. The book explores how intimacy, friendship, and respect interact with both individualism and community values in an open society.

Published in 2017, this edition incorporates developments in law, scholarship, and research since 2006, assessing the legal regulation of married and unmarried relationships, including same-sex marriage.