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BC Family Practice Manual



Product Type: Publications - Print + Online
ISBN: 1-55258-470-4
Pages: 2498
Price: $315.00
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Essential tips, tools, and techniques for family law practice in British Columbia!

This publication is essential for: a learning resource for junior family lawyers and a reference for all other family practitioners.

Current to: April 1, 2015

The British Columbia Family Practice Manual is the practice-oriented guide for British Columbia legal professionals working in family law. This long-standing, comprehensive resource is written and reviewed by leading members of the family law bar and esteemed members of the judiciary, and is updated each spring.

With this resource, you will have quick access to:

  • step-by-step, practical guidance on topics ranging from effectively running your practice and managing relationships with clients to screening for family violence, entering orders, and conducting appeals
  • the forms and precedents you need, available as downloads or on a CD
  • checklists on the procedures to follow in a family law file

Online access conveniently places this resource at your fingertips and is fully searchable with links to full-text cases and legislation.

ONLINE ONLY annual subscriptions are available. Subscribe now.

Highlights of the 2015 update

  • discussion of all significant British Columbia Court of Appeal and British Columbia Supreme Court decisions over the past year, including decisions providing:
    • what is meant by family violence and what evidence is required under the Family Law Act
    • guidance on when and how penalties will be imposed under Family Law Act s. 213
    • impact of value depreciated excluded property on the division of family property
    • the effect of s. 202 on the common law test of admissibility of hearsay evidence
    • the court’s jurisdiction to vary a consent order
    • the standard applied on an application to change or cancel a spousal support order
    • the basis for an award of special costs
  • more on:
    • resolving family law disputes using different processes
    • practice under the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
    • the doctrine of paramountcy
    • concurrent child protection and family law proceedings
    • the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interest or Rights Act, now in effect
    • enforcing disclosure orders in provincial court
  • includes new change of name forms under the Vital Statistics Act

All features, including Commentary, Case and Statute Tables, Forms and Precedents, Practice Directions, and Limitation Periods are current to April 1, 2015.

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CLEBC Legal Editor
Morag MacLean
mmaclean@cle.bc.ca