British Columbia Family Law Practice

ebook Volume 1

By Brian A. Facey

cover image of British Columbia Family Law Practice

Sign up to save your library

With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

   Not today
Libby_app_icon.svg

Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.

app-store-button-en.svg play-store-badge-en.svg
LibbyDevices.png

Search for a digital library with this title

Title found at these libraries:

Loading...

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

  • Amendments to the Adoption Act and Regulations; Child, Family and Community Service Regulation; Family Law Act Regulation; Court Order Interest Act; Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act; B.C. Provincial Court Rules and other Family Law-related legislation
  • Updated annotations to reflect B.C. Court of Appeal decisions (and important lower court decisions) handed down since the previous edition, on such topics as:
    • 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

  • E-book format – Access the information you need, whenever and wherever you need it, on your computer or mobile device
  • Fully annotated Divorce Act – Featuring comprehensive case law coverage from across Canada, along with case law, cross-references and commentary annotations of all the other statutes, the federal Child Support Guidelines and practice rules
  • Explanations of key sections of the Divorce Act, Child Support Guidelines, and Family Law Act – Featuring comprehensive case law coverage from across Canada with cross-references to the B.C. Supreme Court Family Rules
  • Full text of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines & User's Guide – Introduction by Trudi Brown, Q.C., and cases showing how they have been applied
  • Federal Child Support Guidelines tables for British Columbia – Extensive case annotations, making the child support quantum numbers readily accessible
  • Expert-written practitioner's notes – Alerting you to key cases and statutory...
  • British Columbia Family Law Practice