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Family Violence and Family Law Briefs

The Family Violence Family Law (FVFL) Briefs address issues related to family violence and family law. Topics include challenges to service provision in the context of a pandemic, self-representation, communication challenges across sectors, and more. FVFL Briefs are authored by members of the FVFL team at Western’s Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children, as well as expert partners from the Alliance of Canadian Research Centres on Gender-Based Violence.

Issue 31 - Parenting time-sharing practices of parenting plan evaluators in the context of family violence: what does the research reveal?

Issue 30 - Contextualizing the UN Special Report on custody, violence against women and children, and parental alienation: What does it mean for Canada?

Issue 29 - Mental Health/Substance Use Coercion and Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in Family Court

Issue 27 - Sober second thoughts about the benefits and limitations of reunification therapy

Issue 26 - Traumatic Brain Injury and Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges for Survivors Involved in the Family Court System

Issue 25 - Failure to Protect: Social and Institutional Factors That Prevent Access to Justice in Family Violence/Family Law Cases

Issue 24 - Treating Children as Full Rights Bearers: Independent Legal Representation for Children in Family Violence and/or Resist-Refuse Contact Cases

Issue 23 - Family violence: clinical collaboration and community of practice

Issue 22 - How communities of practice support and promote change

Issue 21 - Fathering and Fathers’ Rights Groups: The Canadian landscape

Issue 20 - Responding to Family Violence in Family Court: Challenges and Recommendations

Issue 19 - Gender-Based Violence and Access to Justice for International Students at Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions

Issue 18 - Ethical Obligations of Family Law Practitioners

Issue 17 - Addressing Poverty and Family Violence in Family Law Proceedings

Issue 16 - The Co-Occurrence of Parental Alienation Claims and Intimate Partner Violence in Family Court: Theory and Practice

Issue 15 - When the Family Court Becomes the Continuation of Family Violence After Separation: Understanding Litigation Abuse

Issue 14 - Tech-Facilitated Violence: An Introduction

Issue 13 - Family Law Mediation in Family Violence Cases: Basics and Best Practices

Issue 12 - Survivors’ Views of Family Courts: Findings from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP)

Issue No. 11 - Supporting Survivors through Court Reform: Assessing the Role of Integrated and Specialized Courts for Family Law in British Columbia

Issue No. 10 - Contributing to the Health and Safety of Family Violence Survivors: Reducing the Risks of Secondary Victimization

Issue No. 9 - Implementing Children’s Participation Rights in All Family Court Proceedings

Issue No. 8 - Engaging Fathers Who Commit Family Violence: Issues and Challenges for Family Courts

Issue No. 7 - Trauma-Informed Approaches to Family Violence in Family Law

Issue No. 6 - COVID-19, the Shadow Pandemic, and Access to Justice for Survivors of Domestic Violence Webinar

Issue No. 5 - The 2021 Divorce Act: Using Statutory Interpretation Principles to Support Substantive Equality for Women and Children

Issue No. 4 - A Review of the Recent Recommendations in Québec

Issue No. 3 - Coercive Control and Family Law

Issue No. 2 - Executive Summary of Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along?: How BC’s family law system puts survivors in danger

Issue No. 1 - Supporting the health of survivors of family violence in family law proceedings