Introduction: marriage and cohabitation: global debates, challenges, and perspectives

Thompson, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2569-856X and Probert, Rebecca 2024. Introduction: marriage and cohabitation: global debates, challenges, and perspectives. Probert, Rebecca and Thompson, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2569-856X, eds. Research Handbook on Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law, Research Handbooks in Family Law series, Edward Elgar,

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Abstract

This introductory chapter explains the scope and structure of the book. It provides an overview of how the book progresses from discussion of the historical, philosophical, social and political dimensions of marriage law, through an overview of the rules governing how couples marry and questions about who may marry, to the formal alternatives to marriage that have been created in a number of jurisdictions, the different justifications and models for conferring rights on cohabitants, and some of the different consequences of marriage and cohabitation. It also draws out some key themes: how the legal regulations flowing from marriage have historically operated more as tools of exclusion than inclusion, how much of our understanding of modern family law is derived from how different jurisdictions regulate unmarried relationships, and what legal responses to marriage and cohabitation can tell us about social and cultural understandings of the nature and significance of these relationships.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) K Law > KD England and Wales K Law > KD England and Wales > KDC Scotland K Law > KF United States Federal Law
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
ISBN:	978 1 80220 264 9
Last Modified:	29 Jan 2024 14:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/164849

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