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- Title
RESEARCHING FAMILY LAW REFORM.
- Authors
Rhoades, Helen; Graycar, Reg; Harrison, Margaret
- Abstract
The article presents the article authors' response to their article "The Family Reform Act 1995: The First Three Years," which was published in the previous issue of the periodical "Family Matters." What the researchers have done is consistent with modern research methodologies. Examining how the legislative changes have affected the practices of various players in the family law system is a legitimate, much-used, contemporary, and more effective way of analysing social problems than simply analysing "the privileged sites of legal reasoning" such as the interpretations of the reforms by the Full Court (Rose and Valverde 1998: 546). This approach was fashioned on the basis, that the effects of the reforms would owe much to the way in which they were used by professionals in giving advice to clients - that is, that they might make little or a great change depending on what the various users of the system did with them. By pursuing their interest in how key players understood the reforms and how clients were advised , the researchers undertook judgment reviews, court observations and incorporated quantitative data (using statistical material provided by the Family Court).
- Subjects
LAW reform; FAMILY law courts; DOMESTIC relations; DIVORCED parents; FAMILY Matters (Periodical); PERIODICALS
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 59, p68
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article