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The BBC has reported that the upper and lower houses of the Japanese parliament have now voted to adopt the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The convention is very important in family law cases, and allo…
Regular readers and those who have had the misfortune of attending my presentations on the new Family Law Act will recall some of my concerns about how the provisions of the new provincial legislation with respect to the care of children will interact …
Responsive, Intersectoral, Children’s Health, Education and Research (RICHER) representatives recently met with Dr. Barry Zuckerman of Boston Medical Center to talk about the Medical-Legal Community Partnership (MLCP), based in the Downtown Eastside. Together, we explored the potential to address a wide range of legal issues affecting low-income people. Currently, there are over 250 medical-legal partnerships [...]
In the recently released Provincial Court case of J.C.P v. J.B., the court addressed one of the most challenging problems arising from the transition from the Family Relations Act to the Family Law Act: what do you do when an interim order gives someon…
In a recently-released decision, Mr. Justice Crawford of the Supreme Court appears to have crafted the first model guardianship order under the new Family Law Act. In the case of G.P. v. M.J.R.P., a rather toxic case featuring a mother described as “an…
The Globe & Mail has reported on a bill tabled by Liberal MPP Kim Craitor and NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo in the Ontario legislative assembly. The bill would amend the Children’s Law Reform Act, a law dealing with the consequences of separation like our F…
Courthouse Libraries BC has published two articles of mine on the new Family Law Act that may be useful for those in search of additional resources and commetary on the act.The first, “Varying orders and setting aside agreements under the FLA,” is a ch…
The Queen’s Printer has almost finished assembling versions of the Supreme Court Family Rules and the Provincial Court Family Rules which consolidate the existing rules and forms with the series of amendments that came into effect with the Family Law A…
I am very excited to announce that today Courthouse Libraries BC has relaunched my former website, JP Boyd’s BC Family Law Resource, under their Clicklaw Wiki banner as JP Boyd on Family Law. This new wiki is completely up to date for the Fam…
The Provincial Court has announced a project to overhaul how court time is scheduled. The aptly named Provincial Court Scheduling Project has just release the first issue of a newsletter (PDF) intended to keep court users and other stakeholders up…
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