Commonwealth Caribbean Family Law husband, wife and cohabitant Commonwealth Caribbean Law Series

This important new text is the product of several years of research of the family law of fifteen Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions. It is the first and only legal text that comprehensively covers all the main substantive areas of spousal family law, including marriage, divorce, financial support, property rights and domestic violence.

The rights of the statutory spouse in the jurisdictions of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are examined, thus addressing, on a jurisdictional basis, an important area of spousal family that is seldom covered in English family law texts. The book also covers the number and variations of divorce regimes applicable to the region ? the matrimonial offence divorce model of Guyana and Montserrat, the English five fact model of Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Grenada, Anguilla, and St Vincent and the Grenadines, the hybrid model of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize and St Kitts and Nevis, and the no fault model of Jamaica and Barbados.

This book will prove an indispensable resource for law students and legal academics, as well as for family law practitioners across the English-speaking Caribbean. Other professionals, including sociologists and social workers, will also find the book useful and informative.

Preface

Table of Statutes

List of Cases

Part 1-Preliminary Matters

Chapter 1-Introduction To Spousal Family Law

Part 2-Marriage and the Statutory Non-Marital Union

Chapter 2-Marriage and the De Jure Spouse

Chapter 3-The Statutory Non-Marital Union and the Statutory Spouse

Chapter 4-The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Statutory Non-Marital Union: An Overview

The Breakdown of the Marriage

Chapter 5-Separation Agreements and Judicial Separation Orders

Chapter 6- The Void and Voidable Marriage: Declaration and Decree of Nullity

Chapter 7- Dissolution of Marriage: The Divorce Regimes

Financial Support: the De Jure and Statutory Spouse

Chapter 8-Financial Support : Some Preliminaries

Chapter 9-Financial Support on Dissolution of Marriage or Termination of Statutory non-Marital Union

Chapter 10-Financial Support During Marriage and the Non-Marital Union

Property and Property Adjustment Orders

Chapter 11- The Statutory Regime

Chapter 12- The Common Intention Constructive Trust

Chapter 13- inheritance and Family Provision

Domestic Violence Protection Legislation and Spousal Restraining Orders

Chapter 14-Domestic Violence Protection and Restraining Orders

Karen Nunez-Tesheira is a family law expert who has researched extensively into family law across the Commonwealth Caribbean. From 2010 to 2014, she was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Cave Hill Campus, University of the West Indies, having previously taught at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad. Between 2007 and 2010, she served as a Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance in the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.