Department of Justice Canada

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    FAQs: Family Support obligations in the context of COVID-19

    In these challenging times, the current COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on families and individuals have given rise to a number of questions regarding child and family support and other Family Law matters. The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provide Canadians with information on Family...
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    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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    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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    Research in Brief: The Practice of Family Law in Canada: Results from surveys for the 2018 National Family Law Program

    This report highlights some key findings of the 2018 National Family Law surveys of family law professionals in Canada. The data provide insights into the experiences, practices, and issues among legal professionals working in the Canadian family justice system. Since 1998, the Department of...
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    Preliminary Examination of so-called "Honour Killings" in Canada

    The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Justice Canada. This paper examines three questions – what is an “honour killing”, in order to establish the definition used in the paper; where does it occur, looking at...
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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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    Internal Audits 2017

    The mandate of Justice Canada’s internal audit function is to help Justice Canada achieve its strategic outcomes by using a systematic and disciplined approach to assess and contribute to the continuous improvement of its risk management, internal control, and governance processes. The results of...
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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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    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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