The BC Provincial Government released its budget today and, after years of taking millions of dollars in child support payments from those children who need it most, have finally put a stop to the practice.
In a release today, [...read full post]
Parental alienation and/ or estrangement cases are some of the hardest cases to deal with. While there may be various and often complex reasons a child refuses contact with a parent, there are many studies that show long terms effects [...read full post]
With a rise in reproductive technologies – surrogacy, egg donation, sperm donation and the like – the need for tests to determine relationships between children and parents is something which is becoming increasingly relevant. Even in the case of a [...read full post]
In June, 2014, I wrote in this blog about the shameful and illogical clawback of child maintenance monies by the BC government from single parents on social assistance. Since then and until yesterday, there has been precious little in the [...read full post]
A recent case, J.Z. v. L.H.C. 2015 BCSC 97, presented an unusual attempt to use the Family Law Act towards purposes that were almost certainly beyond the intention of the drafters of the act. In that case, the mother [...read full post]
