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British Columbia Family Law Practice, 2025 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.
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 provisions, including case law to help interpret the Family Rules
Scan-friendly limitations table – To ensure filing deadlines are met
What's New In This Edition
Amendments to the Divorce Act; Federal Child Support Guidelines; Child, Family and Community Service Act and Regulation; Adoption Act; Family Law Act Regulation; Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act; Family Maintenance Enforcement Act Regulation; B.C. Supreme Court Family Rules and other Family Law-related legislation
Denial of Licences for Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Regulations
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:
Terms and conditions of child support orders and payor residing outside Canada (Pousette v. Janssen)
Separation agreement formulas and the SSAG (Eldridge v. Eldridge)
Compensatory support (Cohoon v. Stobo; Hague v. Hague)
Substantial success (Hartnell v. Hartnell)
Family violence (A.N.H. v. L.D.G.; K.M.N. v. S.Z.M.)
Informal parenting arrangements (Hansen v. Hansen)
Habitual residence of child (Gill v. Gill)
Excluded property (Brazinski v. Brazinski; Cottrell v. Cottrell)
Setting aside prenuptial agreements (C.C. v. S.P.R.)
And more!
An Invaluable Reference for
Family lawyers and mediators who need legislation, practice rules and key cases in one convenient, portable format
Judges who require an authoritative source of all pertinent national and provincial jurisprudence
Students of Family Law who want to easily access and understand jurisdictional complexities
Legal clerks and assistants who need accessible forms and a reliable procedural limitations table to meet all filing timelines