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| Contrasting legal conceptions of family obligation and financial reciprocity in the support of older people: France and England | | Author(s) | Julia Twigg, Alain Grand |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 18, part 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 131-146 |
| Keywords | Assets [elderly] ; Wills ; The Family ; Law ; France ; England. |
| Annotation | The different ways family obligations and reciprocity are defined in law in France and England are explored in this paper. Focusing on the areas of inheritance and financial support in relation to older people, the paper explores how these are contrasted and linked in the two societies. In France, families are legally obliged to support their kin through `obligation alimentaire', but inheritance is secured by law within the family. In England by contrast there is no such legal obligation to support older relatives; nor is there any constraint on inheritance: testamentary freedom is the legal principle. The authors discuss the significance of these differences and assess how far they are modified by the operation of the welfare state and by embedded assumptions about family relations, within the context of different discourses of law and social policy in the two countries. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980814405 A |
| Classmark | JD: VTH: SJ: VR: 765: 82 |
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