Family Law Research Guide

Format: Print
Location: PRAC
Type: Looseleaf – 9 releases a year
This looseleaf is national in scope. It examines the law and practice of domestic conflict in Canada, from identifying abuse to providing effective remedies. It has chapters on an overview of domestic conflict and the law, civil recovery, children, aboriginal peoples, financial considerations, service providers, practice considerations, elder abuse and neglect, immigration, future developments. The appendices have sample client documents (questionnaire, release of information, checklist and safety plan), comparative tables (legislative remedies, limitation periods and damage awards), precedent court documents (affidavits, restraining order, appearance notice, recognizance and undertakings). The appendices include legislation from each jurisdiction and issues in focus.

Format: Print; Westlaw Texts and Annotations
Location: PRAC
Type: Looseleaf – 2 releases a year
This looseleaf covers the common-law jurisdictions in Canada. It examines the law and practice related to vulnerable persons, including their protection and remedies. There is a chapter on each type of vulnerable person (youths outside of child protection laws and adults who suffered child abuse, spouses, elderly, and medical patients and persons with disabilities), and the chapters are organized by province. The appendices include words and phrases. . 

Format: Print; Lexis+
Location: PRAC
Type: Monograph
This book is a practical guide for family law practitioners on how to manage domestic violence during separation and divorce. It has chapters on culture, definitions of domestic violence, dynamics underlying domestic violence, increased risk of violence after separation, safety planning, screening and the duty to warn, representation in family courts, the "maximum contact" principle, protection orders, cyber abuse, and the impact of criminal law.

Format: Print, vLex
Location: PRAC
Type: Monograph
This book is derived from an original French text, which has been translated and updated. The book analyzes civil remedies for sexual and spousal abuse within the Quebec Civil Code and compares it to those in Canadian common law provinces. There are parts on the client, the conditions for remedy and instituting proceedings.

Format: CanLII
Location: Online only
Type: Monograph
This ebook evolved from three editions of a bench book on domestic violence for Canadian judges by Linda C. Neilson and published by the National Judicial Institute, Domestic Violence and Family Law in Canada: A Handbook for Judges, later entitled, Domestic Violence Electronic Bench Book. It has been updated and modified for lawyers and service providers. It has chapters on introduction and research foundations; responding to domestic violence cases; social context use and misuse; obtaining facts and interpreting and assessing domestic violence; understanding victims; children; perpetrator characteristics and litigation tactics; risk and lethality; civil protection; evidence; assessing child best interests; settlement and consent; interim custody and access; custody, access, and parenting and contact orders; enforcement of access, and variation and appeal; relocation and child abduction; child protection; judicial dispute resolution and mediation; responding to culture; Indigenous peoples; mental and physical disability; minority / immigration status. Supplementary reference chapters supplement the main chapters and include one on mutual claims.