ABSTRACT
This book is designed to be read by undergraduates who are studying either family law or child law as part of their degree studies, whether on a full-time or part-time basis. It is becoming increasingly common for universities to adopt a semester structure as the model for study, and in consequence, courses which were once studied for an academic session are now designed to comply with a modular ethos lasting at most some 15 weeks. Family law courses once offered on a linear basis have been restructured, giving the student the opportunity to focus attention on difficulties facing the family, and then, in the following semester, delve into the finer points of the law relating to children. Modular courses are often designed to be free-standing in the sense that there is no other module which needs to be studied in order to underpin the study of the current module. It is suggested that the study of the law relating the family will prove of help in assisting an undergraduate quickly to come to terms with some of the problems to be encountered while studying child law. Nevertheless, the subject may be approached in isolation from other aspects of family law, and for that matter, welfare law.
