Family Law Legislation
(Found in Resources under the Canadian Family Law Directory
We've collected as much of the Canadian Family Law legisation we could find on the web and brought it together here. It's listed by province and if you kow of any we have not yet come across, please send us an email so we can make the adition.
Deadbeat Parents
(Found in Parenting Resources)
An unusual and interesting site set up as a free service by Debtguard Corporation of Mississauga, Ontario to help locate Canadian parents defaulting on their child support payments. You can find what they list as the "Most Wanted Deadbeats" and also a full listing of all of the "deadbeat parents" in a photo gallery showing details about the person and how you might be able to recognize him or her. If you spot one of these people you can e-mail the company. When we checked out this site in early December, 1997, it only had 14 "deadbeats" in the gallery with one of them marked "Found". As well, most of the company's regular activities were still "Under Construction". Hopefully, their gallery will grow over the months to come.
This is a wonderfully informative English site for people interested in the concept of "Shared Parenting". It has guidelines for parents to help avoid common problems, sets out arguments used in court for and against the concept as well as lots of other material and resource information.
It's Good News To Have a DadThis is a case comment on Johnson-Steeves v. Tak Lee, the Alberta case which decided that a mother could not deny access to a father even though she had used him only to become pregnant and as a support payer where she wanted to raise her child without a father's involvement. The court discusses the role of fathers in the lives of children, even when they don't live together and finds that it is in the best interests of children for there to be involvement with their fathers. While not breaking new ground, this case makes it clear that the burden is not on the father to show why he should be involved - that's where things start. The mother has to show that he is a "bad or damaging or inadequate father".
Techniques and Strategies to Promote Shared parentingAn article about how non-custodial parents can encourage courts to award shared parenting, even where the custodial parent may want to have more restricted contact between the children and the applicant wants. More and more the concept of "shared parenting" is becoming an option to consider in the search for a more child centered resolution in custody and access cases.
FamilyPsych CentralA site by an experienced child and family assessor who deals with children, families, lawyers and the courts. Written in clear and easy to understand language, this is a "serious" site devoted to issues of concern about children, family assessments and the courts. Highly recommended.
The Federal Government's Child Support Guidelines FAQs
We're always looking for new sites or articles to add to the Family Law Centre site. If you know of any which you think are appropriate, please send an e-mail message containing the name of the site and the URL so we can find it. Thanks, Joel Miller.
One of the most noteable things about the Internet is how often sites you really like disappear. Everyone of the sites referred to above was operational and accessible at the time it was reviewed - but there is no guarantee it's still there. If you tried to click onto a site and had difficulty, please send us an e-mail so we can look into it. Thanks, Joel Miller
