Bringing together experts from a wide variety of legal disciplines to comment on the way in which different areas of law affect the functioning family today, this volume provides a modern critical approach to bear on the broad range of subjects that used to constitute 'family law'.

Rebecca Probert is Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick, UK.

Contents: Under one roof: law's interactions with family life, Rebecca Probert; Part I Keeping a Roof over the Family: Family law and housing law: a symbiotic relationship?, Anne Barlow; The security of the home and the home as security, Rebecca Probert. Part II Using the Law in Intact Families: Violence in a family context: the criminal law's response to domestic violence, Sharon Cowan and Jacqueline Hodgson; Medical negligence: secondary victims and psychiatric illness: family tragedies and legal headaches, Rachael Mulheron; Contract - a justifiable taboo?, Chris Barton. Part III Intact Families and the State: Family law and social security, Nick Wikeley; Income tax and family life, David Salter; Work-life balance and employment law: cultural change or Mission: Impossible?, Graham Moffat; Home or home: caring about and for elderly family members in a welfare state, Ann Stewart. Part IV Families Across International Boundaries: International families: making new relationships at home and away, Judith Masson; Immigration law and family life - a happy marriage?, Helen Toner; The asylum-seeking family, Dallal Stevens; Families and European Union law, Clare McGlynn; Bibliography Index.