Elements of Child Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean

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University of the West Indies Press, 2000 - 322 pages
Elements of Child Law is a comprehensive study of legitimacy, status of children legislation, parental rights, maintenance, family provision and succession to property, custody, adoption and care and protection issues. The book includes a thorough discussion of the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and its ramifications for the region in the last ten years. All relevant Caribbean statutes and their relationships to current case law are examined.
 

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Contents

Scope of the Law Relating to Children
1
CHAPTER
8
Relevant Legislation Regulating Abortions
9
Sale and Lease of Property Belonging to Infants
15
CHAPTER
16
CHAPTER 5
22
CHAPTER 9
29
The Presumption of Legitimacy
33
Children Born
115
Rights to Family Provision
144
Outofwedlock and Adopted Children
152
Subjective or Objective Test
158
Custody of Children
164
Adoption
192
Care and Protection of Children
217
Child Law in the Commonwealth
231

CHAPTER 6
34
Legitimation by Statute
44
Personal Rights
50
Content of the Legislation
57
Balance of Probabilities Test
65
Who May Apply for Declaration of Paternity
71
APPENDIX A Trinidad and Tobago Age of Majority Act
247
APPENDIX B Trinidad and Tobago Status of Children Act
253
Antigua and Barbuda Domestic Violence
279
United Nations Convention on
300
INDEX
318
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Zanifa McDowell has worked as a university academic for a number of years in the Caribbean. Her professional field is Law. Retired from the profession, she spends her free time writing novels (and painting--many of her book covers display her artwork). Her books are mainly set in the Caribbean where she resides with her family. A prolific author, she has written some eighty fiction books (novels, novellas, novelettes, plays, anthologies of short stories and poetry) and has a number of non-fiction publications (academic textbooks, journal articles) to her credit, including Elements of Child Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean (UWI Press, Jamaica) and Sourcebook of Restitution Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean (Claitor's Publishing Division, Baton Rouge).

Bibliographic information

PealkiriElements of Child Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean
AutorZanifa McDowell
PublisherUniversity of the West Indies Press, 2000
ISBN9766400857, 9789766400859
Length322 pages
  
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