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Polygamy, Serial Monogamy, and Support Arrangements
In the wake of Wednesday’s decision by the Supreme Court of British Columbia upholding the constitutionality of the Criminal Code’s ban on polygamy, the Globe and Mail today publishs an interesting...
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Varying Spousal Support Arrangements
The Supreme Court of Canada handed down two decisions yesterday that “ruled spousal support arrangements can only be changed if the spouse who is paying can establish a genuine, significant and...
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Canadian Same-Sex Marriages of Non-Residents May be in Doubt
In responding to a court application for divorce of a same-sex couple married in Canada, a federal government lawyer has taken the position: Non-resident couples who marry in Canada “must live in the...
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Transformative mediation connected with courts?
With reference to this question, here’s an excerpt from a guest post that appeared a couple of days ago on Dan Simon’s blog: There are times when we are asked to take cases that the judges have...
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Family law understood as a system of coercion
In an opinion piece in Minneapolis’s Star-Tribune last month, the Hon. Bruce Peterson, district court judge inHennepin County, Minnesota, writes that it is time “to consider taking divorce out of the...
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When adult children return home
Brian Galbraith over at Ontario Family Law Blog had an informative post yesterday related to child support provisions in Ontario: What is alarming for divorced parents is that in Ontario you cannot...
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Tax information for families in Ontario
One of our favourite sites for information about family law in Ontario is called Family Law in a Box. Just today, the site published a useful list of tax credits that may be available for families in...
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Self-represented litigants now permanent part of justice system
Last Tuesday, May 7th, the report of an 18-month research project that examined the experience of 259 self-represented litigants in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia was released. Author of the...
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How mediation can help in transborder parental child abduction
Sabine Walsh is a certified International Family Mediator based in Ireland and reports on how mediation can support parents in cases of international parental child abduction, “where one parent brings...
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UK Ministry of Justice video on family mediation
I have a few glosses² to add to this: Contrary to the video, I prefer the objective of mediation to be stated as a process in which people can explore, with the support of a trained, impartial third...
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