PART ONE: DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS 1
Chapter 1.Aspects Demographiques de la Formation de la Famille en Europe Occidentale, (with English synopsis) Patrick Festy 2
Chapter 2.Cohabitation without Marriage in Sweden, Jan Trost 16
Chapter 3.Changing Conceptions of the Family and the Reform of Family Law in Finland, Aulis Aarnio 23
Chapter 4.Formal Marriage under the Crossfire of Social Change, Henrik H.Andrup, Bernd Buchhofer and Klaus A.Ziegert 32
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 39
Chapter 6.Marriage and Cohabitation: Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Michael Olmesdahl 46
PART TWO: MODERN MARRIAGE LAWS AND THEIR UNDER-LYING ASSUMPTIONS 57
Chapter 7.The New Marriage and the New Property, Mary Ann Glendon 59
Chapter 8.Marriage: An Unnecessary Legal Concept?, E.M.Clive 71
Chapter 9.Supporting the Institution of Marriage in the Republic of Ireland,William Duncan 82
Chapter 10.Ends and Means — The Utility of Marriage as a Legal Institution,Brenda Hoggett 94
Chapter 11.The Changing Nature of Marriage—The Relevance of the Australian Experience, Frank Bates 104
Chapter 12.Formal Marriage Law and Its Underlying Assumptions in Nigeria,E.I.Nwogugu 116
Chapter 13.Moral Premises of Contemporary Divorce Laws: Western and Eastern Europe and the United States, Jan Gorecki 124
Chapter 14.The Elimination of Fault in Swedish Divorce Law, Lars Tottie 131
Chapter 15.Entry into Marriage — Should It Be Made More Difficult? J.Neville Turner 137
Chapter 16.The Transformation of Legal Marriage Through No-Fault Divorce: The Case of the United States, Lenore J.Weitzman and Ruth B.Dixon 143
PART THREE: THE LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSE TO COHABITATION 155
Chapter 17.The Informal Marriage in Anglo-Australian Law H.A.Finlay 156
Chapter 18.Effets Patrimoniaux de l'union libre dans le Droit Brésilien, Joao Baptista Villela 172
Chapter 19.Les Questions Juridiques des Rapports existant entre les Personnes cohabitant sans Marriage en Hongrie, Marta Katona Soltész 179
Chapter 20.Legal Responses to Formal and Informal Marriage in Japan, Ichiro Shimazu 190
Chapter 21.Les Couples Non-mariés en France, Roger Nerson 198
Chapter 22.Cohabitation outside Marriage in Dutch law, A.M.van de Wiel 212
Chapter 23.The Legal Recognition of Domestic Contracts: The Experience of Ontario, John J.O'Hoski 228
Chapter 24.Les Epoux de Fait dans le Droit Civil du Québec, Ethel Groffier 235
Chapter 25.Cohabitation without Marriage in Swedish Law, Anders Agell 245
Chapter 26.Aspects of de facto Marriage under Switzerland's Private Law,Jacques-Michel Grossen 258
Chapter 27.Metamorphosis of Marriage: Formal and Informal Marriages in the United States, Walter O.We.vrauch 265
Chapter 28.Cohabitation without Marriage as a Problem of Law and Legisla-tive Policy in West Germany and other Codified Systems, Eugen Dietrich Graue 282
Chapter 29.Cohabitation without Formal Marriage in Yugoslav Law, Petar Sarcevic 293
PART FOUR: POLICY PERSPECTIVES OF THE LEGAL RECOGNI-TION OF COHABITATION WITHOUT MARRIAGE 299
Chapter 30.The Case against Legal Recognition of Cohabitation, Ruth Deech 300
Chapter 31.Policy and Social Factors affecting the Legal Recognition of Cohabitation without Formal Marriage, Don MacDougall 313
Chapter 32.Cohabitation and English Public Sector Occupational Pension Schemes: Problems and Policy in Pursuit of the New Property, David S.Rosettenstein 323
Chapter 33.Cohabitation in English Social Security Legislation, David Pearl 335
Chapter 34.Cohabitation: A Possible German Civil Law Solution, Franziska-Sophie Evans-yon Krbek 342
Chapter 35.Domestic Partnership: A No-Fault Remedy for Cohabitors, H.Jay Folberg 346
Chapter 36.The Law Relating to Unmarried Partners from the Perspective of a Law Reform Agency, Stephen M.Cretney 357
PART FIVE: THE POSITION OF CHILDREN OF UNMARRIED BUT COHABITING PARENTS AND THE POSITION OF STEP-CHILDREN 369
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 371
Chapter 38.Children in Subsequent Marriages — Questions of Access, Name and Adoption, Alastair Bissett-Johnson 382
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 398
Chapter 40.The Position of Children of Unmarried but Cohabiting Parents According to Yugoslav Legislation, Miroslava Gec-Korosec 408
Chapter 41.The Position of Children of Unmarried but Cohabiting Parents (Uniform rules in respect of determination of paternity), Peter Lodrup 413
Chapter 42.Step-parent and Step-children: Legal Relationships in Serial Unions, Susan Maidment 420
Chapter 43.The Social and Legal Position of Children of Unmarried Cohabit-ing Parents, Pauline Tapp 437
POSTSCRIPT: CRISIS IN THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE — AN OVERVIEW, John Eekelaar 450