Source Currency: Volume 39, Issue 1, 1 April 2025. Int J Law Policy Family (2025) 39 (1): 1 Articles Dependence, equal sharing, and the South African Constitution – recent developments in South African divorce law Marital rules for unmarried couples: Feminist objections to a feminist proposal Application of the 2007 Hague Maintenance Convention post-Brexit: implications for international maintenance obligations Substantive equality for women in distribution of matrimonial property: Uganda's contribution-based approach Defending family justice: a new approach against enforcing premarital agreements A search for consistency in ECtHR decisions on the recognition of parenthood following surrogacy Parental union in Quebec: a model for recognizing cohabitants? Pension sharing on divorce: why do we do it, and how might we do things differently? The evolution of de facto relationships in Brazil: from concubinage to unmarried unions The new Dutch default community of acquests regime: key innovations from a comparative perspective Legal reform for Syria's war-affected children: adoption, fostering, and state responsibility in transition How best to protect and respect? Comparative analysis of intended guardianship in China and lasting power of attorney in England and Wales Correction to: Trans children and trans parents in Spain two years after Law 4/2023: an overview Recognition and protection of queer families in European family law Prohibiting commercial surrogacy in Ireland Destigmatizing illegitimacy: the discursive reconfiguration of non-marital children in Heisei-Era Japan Unblocking the implementation of altruistic surrogacy in Portugal: inclusive legal reform proposals through a comparative analysis Domestic abuse and financial remedies making the case for a new approach Disbelieving children's disclosures and disregarding children's views: what children's appeals of parenting orders in New Zealand can teach about the harmful impact of ignoring children in care proceedings Judicial treatment of applications for joint physical custody in Belgium: criteria considered and underlying family normativities Beyond borders: a post-Brexit analysis of the domestic and international law challenges in enforcing civil protection orders in the European Union Cross-border child abduction from the UK: comparative analysis of Polish and Lithuanian court cases Trans children and trans parents in Spain two years after Law 4/2023: an overview Unreported nuptial agreements in England and Wales Families in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: from the perspectives of law and society Accommodating family diversity and social parenthood within constitutional conservatism: A comparative analysis of Irish and Polish Law How are legal rules on advanced parental age and access to Assistive Reproductive Technologies experienced by Swiss care professionals? A qualitative interview-based study Dilemmas of children's participation and the role of practice guidelines: the views of judicial decision-makers in Norway Stepchildren in succession law across European jurisdictions current landscape and legislative concerns Reforming financial guardianship in Kuwait's Civil Code: lessons from international and regional frameworks Understanding children's rights in the context of a hybrid legal regime: a socio-legal analysis of child custody issues in Uzbekistan GIFT, LIFT, and the Transatlantic Shift: translating an infant mental health intervention from the USA to the UK implications for permanency decision-making, law, and policy Reviews Book Reviews: Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales: 'For Wives Alone' Book Reviews: Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective Book Reviews: The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality Book reviews: Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law Book Reviews: The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A Commentary Book Reviews: Barnekonvensjonen i norsk rett Book Reviews: Grandparents and the Law (Rights and Relationships). The subject matter of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family comprises the following: analyses of the law relating to the family which carry an interest beyond the jurisdiction dealt with, or which are of a comparative nature; theoretical analyses of family law; sociological literature concerning the family which is of special interest to law and legal policy; social policy literature of special interest to law and the family; literature in related disciplines (such as medicine, psychology, demography) which is of special relevance to law and the family; research findings in the above areas; reviews of books and relevant reports. Online ISSN: 1464-3707 Print ISSN: 1360-9939.