Sentences with phrase «new family law»

The amendment was administrative in nature and served to align the Strata Property Act with the new Family Law Act by way of redefining the definition of spouse.

Lorraine Lopich, Attorney, Sydney, Australia: «Collaborative Practice Is a Perfect Fit for Australia's New Family Law System»

Under the new family law system in Australia it is compulsory for separating parents to attempt family dispute resolution (FDR) prior to taking their parenting dispute to court.

In March, 2013, the new Family Law Act was launched in British Columbia.

In the 2015/2016 year, the Florida Office of State Courts Administrator reported more than 288,000 new family law cases opened.

And to learn more about BC's new Family Law Act, see the LSS's list of new and revised BC family law publications.

Also — major update to UK Blawgs — including a reference to John Bolch's new Family Law podcasts and LawMinx's fabulous new blog look.

Rule of Law B.C.'s New Family Law Act Is Likely to Affect Future Wills Variation Act Claims British Columbia's new Family Law Act will come into force tomorrow, March 18, 2013.

Everything this government has done is to stymie lawyers, to keep them preoccupied with busywork like learning a complete new set of Civil Rules and a complete new Family Law Act, with different semantics and section numbers.

JP Boyd worked very hard with us to get the basic content of his old website, http://www.bcfamilylawresource.com, up - to - date for the new Family Law Act.

Our new Family Law Act has established a new and stronger presumption in favour of equal division of Fort St John family property.

«Family law lawyers, like others, are dealing with major changes: new child support guidelines, changing pension and income tax legislation, the unification of family courts, new family law forms, technology and the Integrated Justice project all add to the complexity of practice and to the demands being put on this segment of the bar.

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

In the next (approximately) 12 - 18 months the new Family Law Act will come into force, replacing the Family Relations Act... The Family Law Act was passed in British Columbia's legislature on November 23, 2011 and it received Royal Assent on November 24, 2011.

Always a pleasure to see new law blogs arriving: Carrefax a few more legal transmissions to add to the pile and this new Family Law blog — Confessions of a Family Lawyer

Lorraine Lopich, Attorney, Sydney, Australia: «Collaborative Practice Is a Perfect Fit for Australia's New Family Law System»

MacLean and his team of top rated family property division lawyers (selected once again as Vancouver's Best Family Law firm), have been closely watching the new Family Law Act family trust property division and beneficial interest in a discretionary trust interest valuation case law develop under the new Family Law Act.

Marla Gilsig: «In British Columbia on March 18, 2013 we will have a new Family Law Act which makes resolution out of court the preferred method for resolving family disputes.

During that time, I was selected by the Civil Policy and Legislation Office at the former B.C. Ministry of Attorney General to assist in the drafting of the new Family Law Act.

Check out our brand - new family law website for youth in Newfoundland and Labrador — www.myparentsliveapart.ca

Provisions for the appointment of parenting coordinators have even been included in the province's new Family Law Act.

In 2013 a new Family Law Act was enacted with one of the most significant changes from the old law being inclusion of family debt and of excluded property.

The new Family Law Act decisions regarding advances of money to spouses is in flux but one line says any monies advanced without security are presumed to be a joint gift to both spouses.

Over this time, he continued to present and write for CLE, edit practice manuals, advise on the drafting of the new Family Law Act, teach, research and publish arcane legal doctrine, practice law full time, and publish official materials for the Department of Justice.

These include Community Legal Education Ontario, the Legal Services Society of British Columbia, the Paralegal Litigation Users Group in Vancouver (mostly volunteers), Nova Scotia Legal Aid, and some new family law sites being developed by courts and government.

A recent BC Supreme Court case summarized the law on how a person might obtain a share of excluded property and refers to the test set out in the new Family Law Act for division of excluded property:

Legal and funeral???? A new family law operation will also open in London late this year.

Kari Boyle, executive director of Mediate BC, says the regulations under the new Family Law Act that took effect Jan. 1, have significantly altered the field of family dispute resolution in the province as they give «the public a safe place to find mediators if they want.»

The new Family Law Act was introduced into the legislature in the fall of 2011, but was not brought into force until 18 months later.

British Columbia's new Family Law Act, a fantastic and forward - thinking piece of legislation, somehow requires 260 operative sections to get the job done, while the federal Divorce Act gets by with about 30 operative sections.

A number of Surrey equal division of family property cases have been decided since our new Family Law Act came into force in March of 2013.

Almost two years later we opened a new family law firm in downtown Calgary that has quickly taken off.

The new Family Law Act is bringing changes to the law in British Columbia.

On March 18, 2013, B.C. passed its new Family Law Act, which replaced the former Family Relations Act and made some sweeping changes to the law in that province, bringing it more in line with the governing legislation in Ontario, but adding some new elements as well.

British Columbia's repealed Family Relations Act, for example, provided that spouses would each receive a one - half share of the family property, unless an equal division would be «unfair» considering a non-exhaustive list of six factors; its new Family Law Act prescribes an equal division unless an equal division would be «significantly unfair» upon consideration of an even longer non-exhaustive list of factors.

BC's new Family Law Act and how it impacts excluded property placed in joint names or used to buy, renovate or pay down debt on jointly owned properties remains in legal turmoil.

So what was the excluded property at issue in this hard hitting new family law case of Excluded Property FLA Presumption of Advancement?

The Divorce Act uses the terms custody and access but the newer family Law Act uses different terminology like, parenting time, parenting responsibilities, contact and guardianship.

Not exact matches

The raid suggests Mueller may have documents that call into question the credibility of Trump and Cohen, even if the materials have nothing to do with Russian meddling, said Jeffrey Cohen, a New York family law attorney who's not involved in the case and isn't related to Michael Cohen.

As is widely known, the new GOP tax law will sharply reduce taxes on the best - off Americans while providing smaller (and, eventually, zero) tax breaks for middle - and low - income families.

Sanford J. Schlesinger, cochair of the family - owned - business practice of law firm Kaye Scholer LLP in New York City, urges owners to think about what he terms «asset segregation» to avoid potentially catastrophic personal exposure.

Barack Obama signed a new bipartisan health bill into law on Tuesday that includes funding to expand access to mental health care, an issue that has been a priority for many Sandy Hook families.

New laws in 37 states allow friends and family members of opioid users to obtain a prescription.

New tax law is a mixed bag for your employee benefits This tax provision helps families save on school costs, taxes

New York's state banking regulator asked Deutsche Bank and two other lenders for information on their relationships with U.S. President Donald Trump's son - in - law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his family's real estate company, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Gavin decided to pursue environmental law while working on a small family farm, an experience which changed his perspective on the world and began connecting him to the land in new ways.

In a classic rhetorical formulation, a New York Times editorial in February said, «Republicans designed the law to principally benefit wealthy families while offering crumbs to low - income and middle class families.»

On behalf of the Department of Education, the New York Law Department provided a statement defending the policy: «We view this as a victory for the City's school children and their families.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

What we need to do is to relate the truth about marriage and the family to the heart of its gospel; that is, to the Father's plan expressed already in the original unity between Adam and Eve, prior to the fall and original sin, and to the joy that belongs to the ethos of redemption and the New Law.