Department of Justice Canada

5 datasets found
  • Open Information

    Making the Links in Family Violence Cases: Collaboration among the Family, Child Protection and Criminal Justice Systems

    In January 2011, federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) Deputy Ministers responsible for Justice and Public Safety approved the creation of a joint family and criminal Ad Hoc Working Group on Family Violence to examine how the family, child protection, and criminal sectors of the justice system...
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    Department of Justice Canada
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    Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines: The Revised User's Guide

    This Revised User’s Guide (which we sometimes call the “RUG”) updates and replaces the two previous versions: the original User’s Guide released in July 2008 with the Final Version of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG); and the New and Improved User’s Guide which we produced in March...
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    Department of Justice Canada
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    Children Come First: A Report to Parliament Reviewing the Provisions and Operation of the Federal Child Support Guidelines Volume 2

    This publication consists of two volumes. This particular asset is volume two of two. It was produced by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Family Law Committee and the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Task Force on the Implementation of Child Support Reforms. The publication addresses the...
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    Steps to using the spousal support advisory guidelines (with child support formula)

    With funding from the Department of Justice, two family law professors developed guidelines in an effort to make spousal support more predictable and consistent. The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines suggest appropriate ranges of support in a variety of situations for spouses entitled to...
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    Department of Justice Canada
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    JustFacts: Family Disputes and the Canadian Legal Problems Survey, 2021

    This fact sheet is based on data from the 2021 Canadian Legal Problems Survey (CLPS) undertaken by Statistics Canada and commissioned by Justice Canada. The CLPS is a legal needs or legal problems survey; these surveys are done in countries around the world to measure the incidence of legal...
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    Department of Justice Canada
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