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British Columbia Family Law Practice, 2024 Edition is once again your unique, comprehensive source for all the annotated legislation that a B.C. family law professional needs. This new edition reflects recent court approaches in interpreting and applying the Divorce Act, the Child Support Guidelines, the B.C. Child, Family and Community Service Act, the Family Law Act and other federal and provincial family legislation. It also continues to offer the original Ministry interpretations of every FLA provision, as well as cross-references to help you negotiate the legislation.
What's New In This Edition
- Exclusive authority of director under FMEA to enforce a registered maintenance order (Lipskaya v. Guo)
- Addition of non-family claims to a family law case (Turcotte v. Godine)
- Test for disclosure of business records in family litigation (O.S.M. v. J.A.K.)
- Entered order must be before court on application for appeal, variation, clarification or reconsideration of order (Cowan v. Williams)
- Application of special costs and double costs in family litigation (C.J.H. v. Q.T.)
- Test for legal separation under FLA (Gupta v. Kumar)
- Effect of periods of separation and reconciliation on enforceability of property division agreement; valuation date relative to cohabitation agreement; FRA applying to pre-FLA property litigation (Bingham)
- Adverse inference resulting from lack of disclosure not constituting proof of value of or title to family assets (Wang v. Jiang)
- Effect of common law spouses keeping property separate pursuant to oral agreement; waiver of spousal support in pre-FLA separation agreement; scope of FLA, s. 213 (Sperring v. Shutiak)
- Timing of valuation for determining unfairness (Yunusova v. Naimi)
- Whether appeal of an order for interim relief qualifies as a "limited appeal order" under CAR (McMillan)
- Availability of non-compensatory spousal support (Fawbert)
- Shifting onuses on relocation applications; effect of long-standing interim order (Link v. Lenskyj)
- And more!
Unique Features