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Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; Table of Statutory Instruments; AnExplanatory Note on Parliamentary Procedures; Introduction; PART I. THE LEGALFAMILY: MARRIAGE; 1 Weddings; 2 Marriage: Eligibility; 3 Legal Consequencesof Marriage: Property Regimes; 4 Other Legal Consequences of Marriage:Conjugal Rights and Remedies; PART II. THE ENDING OF MARRIAGE: DIVORCE; 5Ending Marriage by Judicial Divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857; 6The Campaign for Reform of the Victorian Divorce Law; 7 The Ground forDivorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1937; 8 The Family Justice Process1900-1970; 9 Irretrievable Breakdown as the Ground for Divorce: The DivorceReform Act 1969; PART III. ENDING RELATIONSHIPS: THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES; 10Marital Breakdown: The Financial Consequences; 11 Maintenance, theMagistrate's Court and the State; 12 The Ending of Relationships by Death:The Financial Consequences; 13 Unmarried Couples: The Legal Consequences ofEnding the Relationship; PART IV. CHILDREN, THE FAMILY AND THE STATE; 14Parentage; 15 Children's Legal Status: legitimate or Illegitimate?; 16Parents and Children: Legal Authority in the Family; 17 Legal Adoption ofChildren, 1900-1973; 18 The State, Parent and Child: 1) before the WelfareState; 19 The State, Parent and Child: 2) the Welfare State and Child CareLegislation; 20 The State, Parent and Child: 3) Child Care Legislation at aTime of Transition, 1969-1989; PART V. THE FAMILY JUSTICE SYSTEM AT THEMILLENNIUM; 21 The Family and the Law: Reform of the English Family JusticeSystem Towards the End of the Twentieth Century; Bigraphical Notes; Sourcesand Select Bibliography; Index