1. Exam Skills for Success in Family Law

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. The aim of Concentrate Q&A Family Law 2018 is to show candidates how to display their learning. This chapter starts with tips for writing essays and answering problem questions, which are followed by four lists of exam hints. Where relevant, the assumption is that the exam is to be set internally. The first list consists of preparation advice, whilst the second and third cover the exam itself. Some of the points made in these lists are obviously applicable to any exam, law or otherwise. Even third-year students may gain from these lists, if only by way of a refresher course. The fourth list is exclusively concerned with family law exams (and assignments).

13. Skills for Success in Coursework Assessments

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter builds upon the guidance provided in chapter one regarding the completion of coursework or assignment questions. It sets out the expectations lecturers will have in relation to coursework submissions and provides advice on: planning and how to research assignment tasks; how to evaluate and critically analyse the law; how to adhere to the word count; how to reference; how to proofread; and the practicalities of submission. It then contains a sample coursework answer.

10. International Relocation and Child Abduction

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter focuses on international relocation and child abduction. The first question is an essay question that considers the law relating to international relocation, ie how the English courts have dealt with applications to relocate out of the jurisdiction (eg Payne v Payne). The second is a problem question that requires the application of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects on International Child Abduction 1980 and the EU Regulations (BIIR), but also considers the law that applies if a child is taken to England and Wales from a country that has not ratified the Hague Convention.

12. Mixed Topic Questions

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. In real life a client is likely to require advice in relation to a number of family law issues and as a consequence, family law assessments sometimes require students to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a variety of topics. This chapter contains five mixed problem questions that cover more than one area of family law: together they cover forced marriage; nullity; divorce; domestic violence; legal parenthood; child maintenance; private law relating to children; the resolution of family disputes; financial relief on divorce; and family property.

6. Family Property

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter focuses on family property, both real and personal. The first question is a problem question concerning an unmarried couple who have separated, whilst the second is an essay question on property registered in joint names.

11. The Law Relating to Children: Public Law and Adoption

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter deals with the public law relating to children, contained in Parts III, IV, and V of the Children Act 1989, and the law relating to adoption, under the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The questions contained in this chapter are a mixture of essay and problem questions that focus on: emergency protection for children, i.e. police protection, emergency protection orders, and local authority enquires; care, supervision, and education supervision orders; the difference between adoption and special guardianship orders and finally, the requirements and procedures for adoption.

9. The Law Relating to Children: Children’s Rights and Private Law

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter considers children’s rights and private law relating to children. The first essay question focuses on the rights of the child to make his or her own decisions and to participate in private law proceedings, whilst the second examines how the law ensures that children have a relationship with both parents after separation. The third question is a problem scenario that requires discussion of orders under s. 8 of the Children Act 1989, the welfare principle, and the welfare checklist. The final problem question concerns inherent jurisdiction and the right of a child to refuse medical treatment.

8. Parenthood and Parental Responsibility

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter focuses on legal parenthood and parental responsibility and contains two essay questions and two problem questions. The topics covered in this chapter are: presumptions of paternity and paternity tests; legal parenthood in assisted reproduction situations; the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; legal parenthood in surrogacy situations; and parental responsibility. The topics covered in this chapter are complex as they raise legal, ethical, and moral issues.

7. Financial Relief and Child Support

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter deals with financial relief during divorce, nullity and judicial separation proceedings, and child support. The first question is a problem question that requires discussion of financial support during marriage, financial orders on divorce and the factors contained in s. 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. The second problem question focuses on financial orders on divorce and variation and appeal of financial orders. The third question is an essay question on the development of the law relating to pre-nuptial and post-nuptial contracts, whilst the final essay question focuses on child support, which is primarily regulated by the Child Support Act 1991.

4. Divorce, Dissolution, and (Judicial) Separation

The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter deals with divorce, dissolution, separation orders, and judicial separation, and contains a mixture of essay and problem questions. The first question is a problem question that considers the ground and facts for divorce contained in the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and the equivalent provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004. The second is a problem question that also requires students to apply the law of divorce, but further necessitates consideration of judicial separation. The third and fourth questions are essay questions that focus on reform of divorce law and the use of mediation in divorce proceedings.