Legal Bulletins

The Family Violence Family Law (FVFL) Legal Bulletins summarize recent court decisions, related to family law proceedings. FVFL Legal Bulletins are authored by expert partners from the Alliance of Canadian Research Centres on Gender-Based Violence.

L.D.B. v. A.N.H., 2023 BCCA 480

September 2024

Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Through Tort Law

September 2024

Protection Orders and Family Proceedings: 2021 ABPC 167

September 2024

Judicial Responses to Litigation Abuse: Cost Awards (Kumar v Nash, 2024 ONCJ)

May 2024

The Impact of Family Violence on the Determination of a Child’s Best Interests and Spousal Support

March 2024

Examining the Impact of Family Violence on Child Custody Decisions

March 2024

Examining Judicial Abuse in Divorce Proceedings

March 2024

Legal Aid Expansion for People Experiencing Family Violence: Single Mothers’ Alliance v. BC

March 2024

The harms of gendered myths and stereotypes about intimate partner and sexual violence: R v RMD, 2022 ABKB 851 (CanLII)

March 2024

Protection Orders and Family Proceedings: 2023 MBKB 164

March 2024

New Brunswick’s Child and Youth Well-Being Act

March 2024

Determining the Best Interests of the Child in Relocation Cases: CLT v DTT, [2022] NBJ No 309

March 2024

Coercion and Control in Family Law Cases: Armstrong v Coupland, 2021 ONSC 8186.

March 2024

Getting Evidence Before Family Law Judges: Fernandes v Fernandes, 2023 ONSC 564

February 2024

Parenting time, relocation, reunification therapy, and cooperative decision-making: El Khatib v Noun, 2023

November 2023

Parental time and Family Law Jurisprudence: A Brief Overview of Recent Jurisprudence

November 2023

Legal Bulletin 15 - Updates of Quebec Case Law in Family Law

November 2023

Legal Bulletin 14 - Family Dispute Resolution Process and Family Violence

October 2023

Legal Bulletin 13 - The Rise and Fall of the Family Violence Tort

September 2023

Legal Bulletin 12 - Relocation in the Context of Family Violence

May 2023

Legal Bulletin 11 - The Hague Convention, Family Violence, and Child Custody

May 2023

Legal Bulletin 10 - Reunification Therapy and Children’s Wishes in Cases of Family Violence- FS v MBT

March 2023

Legal Bulletin 9 - Parenting Orders and Decision-Making in Cases of Family Violence

March 2023

Legal Bulletin 8 - The Overlap Between Family and Criminal Law Cases

March 2023

Legal Bulletin 7 - Family Violence and Parenting Arrangements: Dayboll v Binag

March 2023

Legal Bulletin 6 - A Bulletin from the Atlantic Chapter of the Family Violence – Family Law Community of Practice

March 2023

Legal Bulletin 5 - Protecting a Child’s Gender Identity and Family Violence: LS v BS

January 2023

Legal Bulletin 4 - Creating safety in BC courts

December 2022

Legal Bulletin 3 - Compensating Victims of Domestic Violence: The Case of A v. A

November 2022

Legal Bulletin 2 - McLellan v Birbilis Family Violence and Parental Alienation

October 2022

Legal Bulletin 1.3 - Exploring Family Violence Cases Post-2021 Divorce Act Amendments – Part 3: Relocation

May 2022

Legal Bulletin 1.2 - Exploring Family Violence Cases Post-2021 Divorce Act Amendments – Part 2: Child Support

May 2022

Legal Bulletin 1.1 - Exploring Family Violence Cases Post-2021 Divorce Act Amendments – Part 1: Financial Abuse

May 2022
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