Abstract

Family life increasingly lived in transnational contexts that transcend national boundaries raises cross-jurisdictional questions, as well as complex issues about the accommodation of racial, cultural and religious groups in diverse liberal democracies. Family law has responded with constructive measures such as international conventions and judicial collaboration. ¹ It is also important to examine the reasonable claims of minorities within national jurisdictions that their family disputes should be governed by their chosen cultural or religious norms within community-based ‘law like’ institutions that function as a minority legal order.