Your One-Stop Portable Resource for a New Era of Family Law

 

With the new BC Supreme Court Family Rules ... Limitation Tables … fully annotated Divorce Act ... Practitioner's Notes ... and much more!

 

British Columbia Family Law Practice, 2010/2011Edition is specially designed to serve as a one-stop reference for family law professionals in British Columbia. This portable text contains applicable federal and provincial statutes, plus full annotations.

 

This latest premier resource immediately leaps to the front of its class, offering a range of unique and invaluable features for busy practitioners. You'll find: 

• Explanations of key sections of the Divorce Act, Child Support Guidelines, and Family Relations Act, featuring comprehensive case law coverage from across Canada with cross-references to the new B.C. Supreme Court Family Rules
•  Expert-written practitioner’s notes alerting you to key cases and statutory provisions, including case law that helps interpret the new Family Rules
•  Full text of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, and cases showing how they have been applied
•  Federal Child Support Guidelines Tables for British Columbia with extensive case annotations, making the child support quantum numbers readily accessible
• Scan-friendly limitations table to serve as your ticklers
• New Supreme Court Family Rules, with cross-references thereto throughout the substantive legislation
• CD-ROM containing all pertinent forms, including the new Family Law Rules Forms

 

Answers to Your Questions on Current Issues/Hot Topics

• When will defective disclosure justify court intervention in a separation agreement?
• Do the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines apply to interim orders?
• What is the “Joyce Model” of guardianship?
• When does an interest in a trust become a family asset?
• What additional expenses may affect the child support order?
• How should family property be reapportioned among spouses?

 

Plus, key recent appellate level cases examined include:

• A.C. v. Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services) (SCC) – order imposing medical treatment implicates a child’s liberty and security of the person
• Swiderski v. Dussault (BCCA) – effect of payor parent's blameworthy conduct in assessment of quantum of retroactive child support award
• Shortridge-Tsuchiya v. Tsuchiya (BCCA) – in assessing court’s jurisdiction under FRA s. 44, the terms “real and substantial” are to remain linked; factors applicable on forum conveniens analysis under FRA s. 46
• Kubera v. Kubera (BCCA) – scope of “settled in new environment” exception to Hague Convention on child abduction\
• de Rooy v. Bergstrom (BCCA) – effect of separation agreement on prior interim order for child support; no application on behalf of person who is no longer a “child”

 

and many more….

 

An Invaluable Reference For

• Family lawyers and mediators who need the legislation, practice rules and important cases in a convenient, go-anywhere format
• Judges who require an authoritative source of all pertinent national and provincial case law precedents
• Students of family law, who want the easiest way to understand its jurisdictional complexities
• Legal Clerks and assistants who need a reliable procedural limitations table to meet all filing timelines