Sharing Lives, Dividing Assets : An Inter-disciplinary Study (Paperback)

Part I: General Issues 1. Sharing Lives, Dividing Assets: Legal Principles and Real Life JOANNA MILES AND REBECCA PROBERT 2. The Perils of Reforming Family Law and the Increasing Need for Empirical Research, 1980-2008 MAVIS MACLEAN AND JOHN EEKELAAR Part II: Work, Money and Property within Intimate Relationships: Expectations and Actions 3. Paid and Unpaid Work: Can Policy Improve Gender Inequalities?JACQUELINE SCOTT AND SHIRLEY DEX 4. Managing Money in Intimate Relationships: Similarities and Differences between Cohabiting and Married Couples CAROLYN VOGLER 5. Financial Practices in Cohabiting Heterosexual Couples: A Perspective from Economic Psychology CAROLE BURGOYNE AND STEFANIE SONNENBERG 6. The Role of Personal Relationships in Borrowing, Saving and Over-indebtedness: A Life-course Perspective ANDREA FINNEY Part III: Dividing the Assets on Relationship Breakdown 7. Money, Property, Cohabitation and Separation: Patterns and Intentions GILLIAN DOUGLAS, JULIA PEARCE AND HILARY WOODWARD 8. Financial Arrangements on the Breakdown of Cohabitation: Infl uences and Disadvantage JANE LEWIS, ROSALIND TENNANT AND JEAN TAYLOR 9. Chaos or Consistency? Ancillary Relief in the 'Everyday' Case EMMA HITCHINGS 10. Self-determination or Judicial Imposition? Translating the Theory into Practice SALLY DOWDING 11. Who Wins, Who Loses and Who Recovers from Divorce? HAYLEY FISHER AND HAMISH LOW 12. Pension Accumulation and Gendered Household Structures: What are the Implications of Changes in Family Formation for Future Financial Inequality? DEBORA PRICE Part IV: A Rational Approach? 13. Rational Decision-making and Intimate Cohabitation ANTONY W DNES 14. Legal Rationality and Family Property: What has Love got to do with it? ANNE BARLOW