Introduction MAVIS MACLEAN Part I Framing Family Law 1. Personal Obligations JOHN EEKELAAR 2. Basic Values and Family Law in Recent Judgments of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany WOLFGANG VOEGELI 3. Family Values, Friendship Values: Opposition or Continuity? MALGORZATA FUSZARA and JACEK KURCZEWSKI 4. The Changing Context for the Obligation to Care and to Earn JANE LEWIS Part II Regulating New Forms of Relationship Between Adults and Children 5. Changing Ways, New Technologies and the Devaluation of the Genetic Connection to Children JULIE SHAPIRO 6. Can Co-Parenting be Enforced? Family Law Reform and Family Life in France LAURA CARDIA VON¿CHE and BENOIT BASTARD 7. Supporting Conflicted Post-Divorce Parenting KATRIN MUELLER-JOHNSON 8.

Litigation in the Shadow of Mediation: Supporting Children in Sweden JOHANNA SCHIRATZKI 9. Changing Commitments: A Study of Close Kin after Divorce in England CAROL SMART Part III Regulating New Forms of Relationships Between Adults 10. Targeting the Exclusionary Impact of Family Law LISA GLENNON 11. Registered Partnerships for Same-Sex Couples in Switzerland: Constructing a New Model of Family Relationships MICHELLE COTTIER 12. Same-Sex Relationships in Italy VALERIA MAZZOTTA 13. Cohabitation: The Ideological Debate in Spain TERESA PICONT¿ NOVALES Part IV. A Regulating the Relationships Between Adult Children and Elderly Parents 14. Maintenance of the Aged by their Adult Children: an Adequate Legal Institution? JEAN VAN HOUTTE and JEF BREDA 15.

Obligations of Grown-Up Children to their Elderly Parents: Bulgarian Legislation and Practice VELINA TODOROVA Part IV. B Harmonisation of Law and Diversity: the Fit Between Family Law and Family Values 16. Ethnicity and Expectations Concerning Family Law and Family Values in Bulgaria STEFKA NAOUMOVA 17. Family Values and the Harmonisation of Family Law MASHA ANTOKOLSKAIA 18. Family Law and Family Values in Portugal MARIA JO¿O ROM¿O CARREIRO VAZ TOM¿.