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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Legal Recognition of Non-Conjugal Families: New Frontiers in Family Law in the US Canada and Europe by Nausica Palazzo
This book argues that insufficient recognition of new families is a legal problem that needs fixing in light of recent evolutions in family patterns and normative conceptions of ‘family’. Part I illustrates recent developments in family patterns and norms while Part II focuses on courtroom litigation analysing the argumentative strategies that non-conjugal families can mobilise to pursue legal recognition in Canada and the United States and within the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Union. The book illuminates the different approaches jurisdictions are likely to take and the hindrances thereof to overcome stereotypes associated with proper familyhood.