Family Law for Non-Family Lawyers

Product Type: Course Materials - Print

ISBN: 978-1-55258-859-8

Pages: 141

Price: $135.00

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This book is essential for: all lawyers with general and specialized practices which can include family law complications, including wills & estates, corporate, bankruptcy, tax, criminal, and immigration law.

Current to: September 2013

Impact of the new Family Law Act
How do recent changes to the Family Law Act affect your law practice? How do family law matters intersect with your clients’ other matters? These materials identify changes to family law that may affect your practice in the areas of wills & estates, corporate, bankruptcy and insolvency, tax, criminal, and immigration law. You will learn how matters in other areas of law can intersect adversely with family law matters, and as a non-family lawyer, what you need to know about how family law issues impact your work.

Course Materials Coordinator
Mary E. Mouat, QC — Quadra Legal Centre, Victoria

CLEBC Program Lawyer
Teresa M. Sheward
tsheward@cle.bc.ca

CONTENTS

overview of the Family Law Act
corporate and tax issues: separation date and entitlement to assets, valuation of assets and excluded property, latent and distributive taxes and butterfly transactions, tax liabilities as familiy debts, implications for discretionary trusts
wills and estates issues: status of family law claims upon the death of a party, support obligations and estates, guardianship of children, children's property
bankruptcy and insolvency—property issues: effect of bankruptcy on division of family property and family debt, and on support obligations
overview of the intersect between the Family Law Act, Criminal Code, and the Ministry of Children and Family Development: protection orders and enforcement under the Code, reconciliation and criminal restraining orders, criminal charges and claims involving custody and parenting arrangements, intervention by the Ministry
intersections between immigration and family law: defining family status, sponsorship undertaking and associated risks, two distinct classes of spousal relationships, best interests of the child
impact of the Family Law Act: legally separated, married, divorced?; best interests of the child; custody, access, guardianship, parenting time, contact with the child

Role	Name
Course Materials Author	Eli C. Walker
Course Materials Author	Nikki L. Charlton
Course Materials Author	Stephanie J. Daniels
Course Materials Author	John-Paul E. Boyd, KC
Course Materials Author	Graham A. Kay
Course Materials Author	Anna Laing
Course Materials Coordinator	Mary E. Mouat, KC
Course Materials Author	Deanna L. Okun-Nachoff
Course Materials Author	Brandi Stocks
Course Materials Author	H. Lance Williams
Course Materials Author	Deborah L. Zutter

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