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- Family Arbitration: Jurisdiction and Self-Reps
With the September 2020 amendments to British Columbia’s Family Law Act, family arbitration provisions that were once found in the Arbitration Act RSBC 1996 c. 55 are now incorporated into B.C.’s family law legislation and judicial decisions under the new provisions are eagerly welcomed by family l … Read more »
- Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to Deceive
Mehran Taherkhani and Rosa Donna Este were married in July 2004. Shortly before their marriage they entered into a handwritten agreement that provided that all property owned by each of them would remain the separate property of the owner, and that any increases in value would also be excluded from … Read more »
- A PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE: INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION
Child abduction is the worst kind of child abuse. To wrongfully remove a child from his or her primary parent is the ultimate weapon used by a warring parent. This truism is amply displayed in the case of Y.Q. v. J.D. 2021 BCSC 943 and 2021 BCSC 1185. While the facts in this case are not unusua … Read more »
- A Word or Two about Rhetorical Excess in Family Litigation
Picture the following scenario: After a blistering argument between Mr. and Mrs. A. resulting in assault charges against Mr. A. and an order barring him from being within 500 metres of his wife and the family home, the children refuse to remain living with their mother, and the three of them, a girl … Read more »
THE EVER EXPANDING DEFINITION OF SPOUSAL RELATIONSHIPS Who would have thought, even ten years ago, that courts would define a spousal relationship as including couples who occasionally spend the night together, each with their own home? But the Ontario Court of Appeal in Climins v. Latner 2020 ONCA … Read more »