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Westlaw® Canada FamilySource gives you the tools you need to efficiently handle any family law matter. This includes family law rules, separation agreements and divorce, child custody law, spousal and child support and matrimonial property law.
- Full access to Child Support Guidelines and Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines
- Reports of Family Law (R.F.L.) cases and decisions
- Family Law Statutes, Regulations, and Rules:
- All current federal, provincial, and territorial statutes, regulations, and rules essential to family law.
- Sample agreements, checklists, and quantums
- Texts and Annotations by leading experts such as James C. MacDonald, Ann Wilton, Hugh G Stark, James G McLeod & more
- Current awareness resources, including Franks & Zalev: This Week in Family Law newsletter
Link directly to commentary and annotations by the foremost family law experts – exclusive to FamilySource. An excellent starting point for your research. Link directly to expert interpretation of case law and legislation.
Find what you need when you know the issue but not necessarily the specific section number of the statute.
Child Support Guidelines
The Guidelines link directly to annotations, expert commentary, case digests and legislative history. Spend less time searching and more
Separation, Parental, Same-sex, Cohabitation and Marriage Agreements & Checklists.
Text Collection
- Canadian Divorce Law & Practice (MacDonald & Ferrier)
- Child Custody Law & Practice (McLeod)
- Child Protection Law in Canada (Kirwin)
- Child Support Guidelines (MacDonald & Wilton)
- Domestic Contracts (Stark)
- Enforcement of Family Law Orders & Agreements (Wilton & Miyauchi)
- Family Law Act of Ontario (MacDonald)
- Matrimonial Property Law in Canada (McLeod & Mamo)
- List of Family Resources texts flyer
Link to Westlaw Canada Family Source page.
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See also Family Law resources on LexisNexis Practical Guidance
Authoritative content, precedents and checklist by leading family law practitioners.
- Quantums: Spousal Support, Child Support, and Matrimonial Property
- Sample precedents ‐ including Pleadings, Notices of motion and Affidavits, Conference briefs
- Facta, agreements, Sample letters to clients, Automated Templates, Clause Bank
- Financial Statement Toolkit and Calculators, Checklists, Flowcharts
- Legislative Updates
- Assisted Reproductive Technology
- Domestic Contracts
- Financial Disclosure
- Child Protection
- Determining Income under Support Guidelines
- Enforcement
- Review and Variation of Spousal Support
- Domestic Violence
- Property Claims
- Bankruptcy and Family law
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vlex Resources on Family Law
Titles from Irwin Law Essentials of Canadian Law on a wide variety of topics including:
Payne’s Canadian Family Law and Child Support Guidelines.
Irwin Law texts analyze the complex issues in a succinct style. Their books are accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date. Each book links to Canadian Core Content which contains over 400,000 cases back to 1867.
Vincent AI Legal Citator checks if citations are still good law.
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