Family Law Themes

A narcissistic former partner represents, within family and youth law, an exceptionally complex and often destabilising theme, because the problem rarely lends itself to being captured in one visible incident or one straightforward legal allegation. The complexity lies in the combination of manipulation, gaslighting, control, conflict management, shifting outward presentation,…

Femicide confronts the law with the most extreme and irreversible consequence of structural violence against women in intimate relationships. It is not merely an isolated incident without prior history; in many cases, it is the fatal culmination of patterns of control, intimidation, humiliation, stalking, violence and escalating insecurity. For that…

Honour-based violence is among the most complex and far-reaching forms of violence encountered within family and juvenile law, because the threat often does not arise solely from one individual perpetrator or one isolated incident, but from a broader pattern of pressure, control, loyalty conflicts and collective enforcement of norms. Whereas…

Domestic violence and coercive control are among the most serious manifestations of insecurity within family and youth law, because they occur in the very sphere in which protection, trust and dependency would ordinarily be expected to be most self-evident. The legal complexity of these matters does not lie solely in…

Paternity issues constitute, within family and youth law, a legal domain in which identity, parentage, responsibility and legal status converge in an exceptionally profound manner. The question of who is legally regarded as the father, who may acknowledge a child, who may be held accountable as the biological progenitor, who…

Within family and youth law, children occupy a position that is fundamentally different from that of adults. They are not ordinary interested parties in a conflict conducted by parents, carers or other adults involved, but constitute an independent category of protection whose interests do not automatically coincide with the wishes,…

The financial settlement following the end of a relationship is one of the most consequential and, at the same time, one of the most conflict-sensitive areas of family and juvenile law. In cases of divorce, dissolution of a registered partnership, or the termination of cohabitation, it rarely concerns the mere…

Separation is rarely a single, isolated event. It is a legal, financial and personal turning point in which an existing relationship is not merely brought to an end, but also analysed, divided and reorganised. This applies to divorce, the dissolution of a registered partnership and the end of cohabitation. In…