PART ONE: DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Chapter 1.Aspects Demographiques de la Formation de la Famille en Europe Occidentale, (with English synopsis) Patrick Festy

Chapter 2.Cohabitation without Marriage in Sweden, Jan Trost

Chapter 3.Changing Conceptions of the Family and the Reform of Family Law in Finland, Aulis Aarnio

Chapter 4.Formal Marriage under the Crossfire of Social Change, Henrik H.Andrup, Bernd Buchhofer and Klaus A.Ziegert

Chapter 5.Lifestyles of Cohabiting Couples and their Impact on Juridical Questions, Cees J.Strayer, Wire C.J.Robert and Ab M.van der Heiden

Chapter 6.Marriage and Cohabitation: Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Michael Olmesdahl

PART TWO: MODERN MARRIAGE LAWS AND THEIR UNDER-LYING ASSUMPTIONS

Chapter 7.The New Marriage and the New Property, Mary Ann Glendon

Chapter 8.Marriage: An Unnecessary Legal Concept?, E.M.Clive

Chapter 9.Supporting the Institution of Marriage in the Republic of Ireland,William Duncan

Chapter 10.Ends and Means — The Utility of Marriage as a Legal Institution,Brenda Hoggett

Chapter 11.The Changing Nature of Marriage—The Relevance of the Australian Experience, Frank Bates

Chapter 12.Formal Marriage Law and Its Underlying Assumptions in Nigeria,E.I.Nwogugu

Chapter 13.Moral Premises of Contemporary Divorce Laws: Western and Eastern Europe and the United States, Jan Gorecki

Chapter 14.The Elimination of Fault in Swedish Divorce Law, Lars Tottie

Chapter 15.Entry into Marriage — Should It Be Made More Difficult? J.Neville Turner

Chapter 16.The Transformation of Legal Marriage Through No-Fault Divorce: The Case of the United States, Lenore J.Weitzman and Ruth B.Dixon

PART THREE: THE LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSE TO COHABITATION

Chapter 17.The Informal Marriage in Anglo-Australian Law H.A.Finlay

Chapter 18.Effets Patrimoniaux de l'union libre dans le Droit Brésilien, Joao Baptista Villela

Chapter 19.Les Questions Juridiques des Rapports existant entre les Personnes cohabitant sans Marriage en Hongrie, Marta Katona Soltész

Chapter 20.Legal Responses to Formal and Informal Marriage in Japan, Ichiro Shimazu

Chapter 21.Les Couples Non-mariés en France, Roger Nerson

Chapter 22.Cohabitation outside Marriage in Dutch law, A.M.van de Wiel

Chapter 23.The Legal Recognition of Domestic Contracts: The Experience of Ontario, John J.O'Hoski

Chapter 24.Les Epoux de Fait dans le Droit Civil du Québec, Ethel Groffier

Chapter 25.Cohabitation without Marriage in Swedish Law, Anders Agell

Chapter 26.Aspects of de facto Marriage under Switzerland's Private Law,Jacques-Michel Grossen

Chapter 27.Metamorphosis of Marriage: Formal and Informal Marriages in the United States, Walter O.We.vrauch

Chapter 28.Cohabitation without Marriage as a Problem of Law and Legisla-tive Policy in West Germany and other Codified Systems, Eugen Dietrich Graue

Chapter 29.Cohabitation without Formal Marriage in Yugoslav Law, Petar Sarcevic

PART FOUR: POLICY PERSPECTIVES OF THE LEGAL RECOGNI-TION OF COHABITATION WITHOUT MARRIAGE

Chapter 30.The Case against Legal Recognition of Cohabitation, Ruth Deech

Chapter 31.Policy and Social Factors affecting the Legal Recognition of Cohabitation without Formal Marriage, Don MacDougall

Chapter 32.Cohabitation and English Public Sector Occupational Pension Schemes: Problems and Policy in Pursuit of the New Property, David S.Rosettenstein

Chapter 33.Cohabitation in English Social Security Legislation, David Pearl

Chapter 34.Cohabitation: A Possible German Civil Law Solution, Franziska-Sophie Evans-yon Krbek

Chapter 35.Domestic Partnership: A No-Fault Remedy for Cohabitors, H.Jay Folberg

Chapter 36.The Law Relating to Unmarried Partners from the Perspective of a Law Reform Agency, Stephen M.Cretney

PART FIVE: THE POSITION OF CHILDREN OF UNMARRIED BUT COHABITING PARENTS AND THE POSITION OF STEP-CHILDREN

Chapter 37.The Impact of Serial Monogamy and Living Outside Marriage on the Public and Private Law of Matrimonial and Child Support, Vijay K.Bhardwaj

Chapter 38.Children in Subsequent Marriages — Questions of Access, Name and Adoption, Alastair Bissett-Johnson

Chapter 39.The Legal and Social Aspects of Cohabitation and The Reconsti-tuted Family as a Social Problem, Elizabeth Evatt, R.Watson, and Donald Mc Kenzie

Chapter 40.The Position of Children of Unmarried but Cohabiting Parents According to Yugoslav Legislation, Miroslava Gec-Korosec

Chapter 41.The Position of Children of Unmarried but Cohabiting Parents (Uniform rules in respect of determination of paternity), Peter Lodrup

Chapter 42.Step-parent and Step-children: Legal Relationships in Serial Unions, Susan Maidment

Chapter 43.The Social and Legal Position of Children of Unmarried Cohabit-ing Parents, Pauline Tapp

POSTSCRIPT: CRISIS IN THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE — AN OVERVIEW, John Eekelaar