Child Support for Muslim Children in Family Courts in Today’s Israel

Hawwa ◽

10.1163/15692086-12341364 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-27

Author(s):

Moussa Abou Ramadan

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

Child Support ◽

Civil Law ◽

Court System ◽

Men And Women ◽

Family Courts ◽

Religious Law ◽

Muslim Children

AbstractThe dual legal system of religious and civil law in Israel and the existence of a religious court system alongside a civil one causes distortions in the implementation of the rights and duties of husbands and wives. Due to this duality, in practice, in Israel, there is neither religious law nor law based on equality. This hybrid legal system leads to the reinforcement of what I will call here “patriarchal liberalism,” which means that there is a development in a liberal direction alongside obstacles and barriers that prevent advancement to full equality between men and women. Although this legal hybridity leads to the introduction of liberal norms into the legal relations between men and women, it also preserves patriarchal features. This article focuses on child support allotted to Muslim children in family courts in Israel. Since 2001, both shariʿa courts and family courts may rule in matters of child support for Muslim children, which means that there is parallel jurisdiction between the Muslim religious law according to religious belonging of the parties involved in cases.

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Pflegekinderhilfe in der Sozialen Arbeit

10.5771/9783748907640 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Klaus Wolf

Keyword(s):

Child Support ◽

Subject Area ◽

Professional Services ◽

Foster Child ◽

Family Courts ◽

Child Services ◽

The People ◽

Research Findings ◽

Expert Assessments ◽

Care Relationships

Foster child support is an expanding field of work: In youth welfare offices and the foster child services of independent institutions, in guardianship, expert assessments and family courts, specialists have to deal with the key questions relating to foster child support. In addition, there are the people affected: foster children, parents and foster parents, siblings and other family members. This book provides a well-founded introduction to this subject area and links important practical issues to international research findings. It analyses current developments in this respect in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and illustrates the variety of forms of care relationships with case studies. In this way, the importance of professional services and the courses of action open to them become clear.

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Getting the Court in Your Business: Unmarried Parents, Institutional Intersectionality, and Establishing Parenting Time Orders in Family Court

Social Problems ◽

10.1093/socpro/spz029 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 527-545

Author(s):

Maureen R Waller

Keyword(s):

Child Support ◽

The United States ◽

Family Court ◽

Court System ◽

Public Programs ◽

Family Courts ◽

Criminal Justice Systems ◽

Group Interviews ◽

Set Up ◽

Poor Children

Abstract The child support program reaches half of poor children in the United States, and recent policy proposals would incorporate parenting time into all initial child support orders. Despite the importance and scope of these proposed changes for unmarried parents, research about how parents interpret the decision to set up parenting time orders in family court is limited. Qualitative evidence from individual and group interviews shows that unmarried mothers and fathers perceive family court through competing frames, leading to strategies of either avoidance or engagement with the court system in certain circumstances. Some parents in the study framed family courts as intrusive and opted to stay away from court to avoid unwanted scrutiny by the child welfare and criminal justice systems. In contrast, other parents framed family courts as protective of their families and sought legal help when their child's custody was ambiguous, their child's safety was threatened, or their status in public programs was at stake. These findings are consistent with research on institutional distrust and avoidance but also suggest heterogeneity in unmarried parents’ views of family court as a system that both surveils and safeguards poor families. Findings further demonstrate that unmarried parents view these decisions from a position of institutional intersectionality, or their position at the intersection of multiple state systems that interact with the courts.

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Introduction

It's a Setup ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190062217.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Timothy Black ◽

Sky Keyes

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Child Protection ◽

Child Support ◽

Family Courts ◽

The Social ◽

Short Period ◽

Economically Marginalized ◽

Normative Expectations ◽

The Media ◽

Set Up

The engaged and nurturing father has gained cultural traction in a short period of time. The authors argue that socially and economically marginalized fathers have embraced the new normative expectations of the engaged father and have been encouraged to do so through popular culture and the media; in state welfare, child protection, and probation offices; in jails, prisons, and post-release programs, and in child support and family courts. Within these institutions, they have learned that it is up to them to make better choices, to get themselves together, and to be involved fathers. The authors stress, however, that without substantial changes to the economic, political, and social conditions that facilitate engaged and nurturing fatherhood, these fathers are being “set up.” This chapter describes the argument, the characteristics of the 138 fathers and 41 mothers profiled in the book, the social-historical dynamics of inequality in Connecticut, and the organization of the book.

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