Sentences with phrase «family law arbitrator»

In February 2012, an arbitration scheme was started by the newly formed Institute of Family Law Arbitrators.

* Commencing March 18, 2013, the qualifications for Certified Family Law Arbitrators are set by the government.

Julie is a barrister practising in family law since 2000, she is a qualified family law Arbitrator and a qualified family Mediator.

Our family arbitrators and parenting arrangements know that since the Family Law Act and Arbitration Act were amended to facilitate the arbitration of family law issues, British Columbia courts and family law arbitrators find themselves in shallow waters given the dearth of case law relating to family law arbitrations.

This is the newest form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), governed by the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators.

The Institute of Family Law Arbitrators has a clearly defined process, which is endorsed by the courts in S v S [2014] EWHC 7 (Fam), [2014] All ER (D) 63 (Jan) as leading to a binding court order in almost all cases.

I have over 28 years of experience as a family law lawyer, am a certified parenting coordinator, family law mediator and family law arbitrator.

She is accredited by the Law Society of British Columbia to act as a Parenting Coordinator, Family Law Arbitrator and Family Law Mediator.

Sandra is accredited by the Law Society of BC to act as a Family Law Mediator, a Parenting Coordinator, and a Family Law Arbitrator.

Ed is certified as a family law arbitrator by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, an approved American Bar Association organization.

She is accredited as a family law arbitrator and mediator with the Law Society of British Columbia.

Ms. Lang is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom (FCIArb), a member of the American Bar Association Alternate Dispute Resolution Group, and a founding member of the Family Law Arbitrator's Group (British Columbia.

BC family arbitration awards can now be filed in BC Supreme Court but remember to have the family law arbitrator protect your privacy.

Family law arbitrators are usually experienced family law counsel.

We have 3 senior family mediators, family law arbitrators and child parenting coordinators that can capably assist you in reaching a prompt resolution of your family law case.

Nikki is an accredited Family Law Mediator, Family Law Arbitrator, and in 2015 was named by Lexpert as one of Canada's leading Lawyers Under 40.

Larry is also accredited as a Family Law Mediator, Family Law Arbitrator and Parenting Coordinator by the Law Society of BC.

She is accredited by the Law Society of BC to act as a Parenting Coordinator, Family Law Arbitrator and Family Law Mediator.

I am also a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, the County of Carleton Law Association, L'Association des juristes d'expression francaise de l'Ontario, and the Ottawa Association of Family Law Arbitrators.

Fiona Sasan is a Law Society accredited specialist in Family Law at Morton Fraser, a Collaborative practitioner and Family Law Arbitrator.

Fiona carries on a full family law practice and is accredited by the Law Society of BC to act as a Parenting Coordinator, Family Law Mediator and Family Law Arbitrator.

He is also accredited to act as a Family Law Mediator, Family Law Arbitrator and Parenting Coordinator by the Law Society of British Columbia.

On the 19th July 2016 «The Family Law Arbitrators Children Scheme» was launched, backed by the President of the Family Division.

On Monday 26 March 2012 the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (IFLA) marked the launch of the new Family Law Arbitration Scheme.

The Court retains the jurisdiction to oversee the exercise of a family law arbitrator's jurisdiction.

If this line of thinking is correct, then a family law arbitrator can not vary a court order made pursuant to the Family Law Act unless the parties have first turned their mind to the possibility and agreed in the arbitration agreement that the family law arbitrator may not only decide issues arising from the order but may change the terms of the order itself.

For guidance, family law arbitrators will turn to cases which have considered the same issue in other areas of law.

Simply giving a family law arbitrator the jurisdiction to vary a court order does not «remove» the Court's jurisdiction.

Our family arbitrators and parenting arrangements argue that perhaps parties should not be allowed to contract out of the Court's jurisdiction to remediate a situation, and give that jurisdiction to a family law arbitrator, unless the arbitration agreement sets out the intention of the parties to do so in the clearest of terms — O'Connor v. O'Connor, [1990 O.J. No. 293 (Ontario Provincial Court — Family Division.

The same logic would apply with respect to an attempt by a family law arbitrator to vary an order governing parenting arrangements.

The difficulty with the Merrell interpretation of s. 2 (2) of the Arbitration Act is that if taken literally it would mean that any attempt by a family law arbitrator to exercise jurisdiction with respect to parenting arrangements or any other issue governed by the Family Law Act would remove the Court's jurisdiction to do so and thus would be ultra vires the arbitrator.

The question is, can a family law arbitrator change the order itself in a family arbitrators and parenting arrangements case?

Others argue that an arbitration agreement which gives a family law arbitrator the jurisdiction to vary an order regarding parenting arrangements amounts to an agreement to remove the Court's jurisdiction to vary a parenting arrangement contrary to s. 2 (2) of the Arbitration Act, which reads as follows:

If the parties have agreed a family law arbitrator should resolve the issues between them, then shouldn't that include variation of the order that governs their relations as that is clearly what the parties intended?

Thus our family arbitrators and parenting arrangements lawyers argue that parties can give a family law arbitrator the jurisdiction to vary a court order containing parenting arrangements without offending s. 2 (2) of the Arbitration Act provided they understand that the arbitration agreement can not prohibit either party from appealing the family law arbitrator's decision to the extent it relates to parenting arrangements.

A party who disagrees with the decision of a family law arbitrator still has the right to appeal the ruling of a family law arbitrator either on the basis that the arbitrator made an error of law, or that the arbitrator made an error with respect to a mixed question of law and fact.

If an order contains terms governing parenting arrangements, can a family law arbitrator vary the parenting arrangements in the order and, if so, under what circumstances?

She is an accredited family law Mediator and family law Arbitrator.

William Levine, a family law arbitrator and mediator, offers his insights into this form of Alternative Dispute Resolution.