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Interprovincial Enforcement Of Maintenance Orders: New Principles, New Approaches, Lynn Walsworth
Interprovincial Enforcement Of Maintenance Orders: New Principles, New Approaches, Lynn Walsworth
Dalhousie Law Journal
The author points out that the existing legislative scheme for interprovincial enforcement of maintenance orders is premised on common law rules which have nowbeen rejected by the Supreme Court of Canada. Those same Supreme Court decisions have opened the door for new legislative approaches to intra-Canadian enforcement of these obligations. This paper surveys a variety of new responses based on models in other federal states and on conventions implementing international maintenance enforcement schemes. It examines the pros and cons of each and concludes that any one of them would be superior to the scheme now in force in Canada.
Family Law: Cases, Comments & Questions, Alastair Bissett-Johnson
Family Law: Cases, Comments & Questions, Alastair Bissett-Johnson
Dalhousie Law Journal
The thought that a Canadian, who has difficulty mastering the Federal Divorce Law together with that of 13 Provincial or Territorial bodies of family law might benefit from reading a large American casebook with national coverage requires explanation. In fact the problems of family law seem to run along defined channels of human behaviour which transcend national boundaries. The solutions are not always the same (hence the nature of this book in breaking out of particular mind sets) but the underlying problems are.