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Icwa Downunder: Exploring The Costs And Benefits Of Enacting An Australian Version Of The United States' Indian Child Welfare Act, Marcia Zug

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Australian Indigenous Advocates have long sought the passage of Indigeous child-welfare legislation similar to the United States’s Indian Child Welfare Act. Recently, the Australian government has indicated it is receptive to the enactment of such legislation. However, an Australian version of the ICWA is not as simple as it sounds. The legal status of the Indigenous communities of Australia and American Indian tribes is vastly different thus, many of the ICWA’s provisions, particularly those based on a recognition of Indigenous sovereignty, would require significant modifications before they coud be applied in Australia. These modifications mean an Australian ICWA …

The "Threat" Of Marriage Fraud: A Story Of Precarity, Exclusion, And Belonging, Sarah Pringle

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Migrants can obtain permanent residency in Canada under the family-reunification category set out in s. 12(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Canadian citizens or permanent residents may apply to sponsor their non-citizen spouse, common law or conjugal partner, or other relatives to move to Canada pursuant to s. 117(1)(a) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). The bad-faith clause under s. 4(1) of the IRPR requires spousal-sponsorship applicants to prove to visa officers that, on a balance of probabilities, their relationship is “genuine” and not “entered into primarily for the purpose of …

Existe-T-Il Un « Droit À L’Enfant » En Droit Québecois?, Elisabeth Beauchamp

Canadian Journal of Family Law

La notion de « droit à l’enfant » est souvent soulevée dans le discours public, bien qu’aucune disposition législative au Québec ne prévoie un tel droit à proprement parler. Notre étude propose une analyse de l’ensemble des développements récents du droit de la famille québécois pour déterminer si un « droit à l’enfant » sous-jacent peut s’y inférer. De manière plus particulière, l’analyse porte sur l’émergence possible d’un « droit à l’enfant » dans les développements jurisprudentiels et législatifs relatifs à l’adoption, à la procréation assistée et à la gestation pour autrui. Nous tentons de démontrer que la substance du …

Respecting And Protecting Transgender And Gender-Nonconforming Children In Family Courts, Claire Houston

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Family court judges are increasingly being asked to resolve parenting disputes involving conflict over a child’s gender expression or identity. These disputes ask whether it is in the best interests of children to support their gender nonconformity, including any decision to transition to a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth. Despite more of these cases coming before family courts, judges have little guidance on how to resolve these cases in the best interests of children. Drawing on medical and social science literature and reported decisions, and applying a robust theory of children’s participation rights, this article …

Confronting Cannibalism, Review Of Hadley Louise Friedland, The Wetiko Legal Principles: Cree And Anishinabek Responses To Violence And Victimization​ (Univ. Toronto Press, 2018), Lisa M. Kelly, Shelby Percival

Canadian Journal of Family Law

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Does Domestic Violence Disappear From Parental Alienation Cases? Five Lessons From Quebec For Judges, Scholars, And Policymakers, Suzanne Zaccour

Canadian Journal of Family Law

The theory of parental alienation—which asserts that children who reject one parent are brainwashed by the other parent—has often been used to punish caring mothers and grant custody to dangerous fathers. The legal community’s quick infatuation with this concept has sparked fiery debates between its proponents and domestic violence scholars. My research contributes to this urgent conversation by shedding new light on the role of domestic violence in parental alienation cases.

I observe how series of cases involving the same family deal with the issue of domestic violence. This method reveals a worrisome “disappearing act”: as families repeatedly interact with …

Retrospective Removal Of Gamete Donor Anonymity: Policy Recommendations For Ontario Based On The Victorian Experience, Alicia Czarnowski

Canadian Journal of Family Law

This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of the gamete-donor anonymity schemes in Ontario, Canada and Victoria, Australia. As of March 1, 2017, Victoria became the first jurisdiction in the world to retrospectively remove gamete-donor anonymity. Conversely, donor anonymity remains protected in Ontario, largely through statutory silence. While many donor conceived individuals are calling for other jurisdictions to follow suit and retrospectively abolish anonymity, an in-depth analysis of Victoria’s policy-making process suggests that Ontario should not take a similar course of action. This conclusion is based on the inherent issues with retrospective legislation, the historical differences between the two jurisdictions in …

Disparue Comme Par Magie ? La Violence Conjugale Dans Les Cas D’Aliénation Parentale Au Québec, Suzanne Zaccour

Canadian Journal of Family Law

La théorie de l’« aliénation parentale » — qui affirme que des enfants rejettent un parent en raison d’un lavage de cerveau fait par l’autre parent — a souvent été utilisée pour punir des mères attentionnées et accorder la garde à des pères dangereux. L’engouement fulgurant de la communauté juridique pour ce concept a donc suscité des débats enflammés entre ses partisan·es et les chercheur·ses en violence conjugale.

Mon article contribue à cette conversation urgente en jetant un éclairage nouveau sur le rôle de la violence conjugale dans les cas d’aliénation parentale.

J’observe comment des séries de jugements impliquant la …