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LAW 533 Family Law I

500 levelLaw10 topics

LAW 533 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature of the family and the extended family system
  2. Sources of Nigerian family law
  3. Formal and essential validity of statutory marriage
  4. Void and voidable marriages
  5. Customary law marriage
  6. Islamic law marriage
  7. Dissolution of marriage under customary and Islamic law
  8. Parent, child and State relationships
  9. The Child Rights Act 2003
  10. Legitimacy and legitimation

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Nature of the family and the extended family system

This topic examines what a family is in law and society, the forms a family may take, and the meaning and operation of the extended family system. For examination purposes, you must master the distinction between the nuclear and extended family, understand how kinship and social obligations shape family relations, and explain why the extended family remains important in many African, including Nigerian, communities.

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