AcademicCase Law Analysis
Family Violence and the Best Interests of the Child: Post-2021 Case Law
Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family2022National
Abstract
An analysis of reported decisions from 2021–2022 applying the new family violence provisions of the Divorce Act. Examines how courts are weighing the 16 best-interests factors, the treatment of coercive control, and the emerging jurisprudence on supervised parenting time in cases involving domestic violence.
Keywords
family violencebest interestscoercive controlsupervised parentingDivorce Act 2021
Details
- Topic
- Family Violence
- Province
- National
- Year
- 2022
- Source
- Academic
- Document type
- Case Law Analysis
- Authors
- Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family
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