This file consists of reports, articles, press releases and other research material relating to Family Law in Ireland in the 1970s as it pertained to married couples, divorce and maintenance. It includes AIM [Action Information Motivation] Group report "On the Need for Family Maintenance Legislation in Ireland", 1972; report "Deserted/Separated Wives Maintenance & Social Welfare Report", 197[?]; typed summary of talk "Illegitimacy and Law Reform", given by W[illiam] R Duncan, Lecturer in Law, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), at Cherish Conference, 20/10/1974, with notations from Mary Robinson (MR); ring-bound booklet "Statement on Family Law Reform", The Council for Social Welfare, A Committee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, 197[?]; typed contribution by MR at Symposium on Divorce, Law Society, University College Galway, 01/03/1976; Submission by Irishwoman United to the Law Reform Commission on the Law of Domicile, 18/03/1976; booklet "The Law of Nullity in Ireland", Office of the Attorney General, 08/1976; "Barred", report on a survey into the operation of section 22 of the Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses & Children Act, 1976), Coolock Community Law Centre; typed copy "Illegitimacy in Irish Law", a summary of contribution by MR to inaugural meeting of Solicitors' Apprentices Debating Society, Four Courts, Dublin, 28/01/1977;photocopy of consultative document "The Reform of Family Law in Northern Ireland", Office of Law Reform, Stormont, Belfast, 03/1977, with press release from the Equal Opportunities Commission for Northern Ireland, 13/04/1977 and cover letter to MR from Bronagh Hinds, Combat Poverty, [National Committee on Pilot Schemes to Combat Poverty], Dublin, 11/05/1978; "Family Problems - a commentary on the implementation in Northern Ireland of the recommendations of the Finer Report on One Parent Families and of the report of the Select committee on Violence in Marriage, Inter-Departmental Committee on Family Problems, 08/1977; "Divorce Law Reform in Northern Ireland Matrimonial Causes (N.I.) Order, 1978", text of addresses delivered at conference in Queen's University Belfast, 08/02/1978 by Professor PM Bromley, Bernard Passingham and Barry Malcolm; photocopy of typed paper "Supporting The Institution of Marriage In Ireland", William R Duncan, TCD, Third World Conference of the International Society on Family Law, Uppsala, Sweden, 06/06/1979; copy of typed constitution for Family Lawyers' Association, 197[?]; photocopy of Dublin corporation policy on and assistance for Pre-School Playgroups, 19[7?]; photocopies of article by Laurence Brannigan on the Succession Act, 1965 ["An Act to reform the law relating to succession to the property of deceased persons"], 19[7?].
