Family Law Research Guide

Format: Print
Location: PRAC
Type: Annual
This annual comes directly from the Canadian Divorce Law and Practice, 2nd ed, by James C. MacDonald, Lee K. Ferrier. It annotates the Divorce Act.

Format: Print; Westlaw Texts and Annotations; ProView – staff only
Location: PRAC & closed stacks
Type: Annual
This annual comes directly from Ontario Family Law Act: Law and Practice by James C. MacDonald, Ann Wilton. It annotates the Family Law Act.

Format: Print; Lexis+
Location: PRAC & 1st floor stacks
Type: Annual
This looseleaf annotates the Divorce Act, Federal Child Support Guidelines, Children's Law Reform Act, Family Law Act, Marriage Act, and Family Law Rules. It also annotates the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017; Civil Marriage Act; Annulment of Marriages Act (Ontario); Marriage (Prohibited Degrees) Act; Change of Name Act; Intercountry Adoption Act, 1998; Partition Act (selection); Pension Benefits Standards Act (selection); Pension Benefits Act (selection); Succession Law Reform Act (selection); Vital Statistics Act (selection); Evidence Act (Ontario) (selection); Courts of Justice Act (selection); An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Youth and Families; Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act (selection); Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act (selection); Creditors’ Relief Act (selection); Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act, 1996 (selection); Fraudulent Conveyances Act (selection); Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act, 2002 (selection); and Wages Act (selection). It also provides annotations for a number of related regulations. This book also includes a year in review, a limitations table, and practice notes, which contain practice directions, commentary on expert reports, pensions, and safety planning, and templates.

Format: Print; Westlaw Texts and Annotations
Location: PRAC
Type: Looseleaf – 4 releases a year
This looseleaf annotates the Family Law Act and Child Support Guidelines. It also has a chapter on proceedings under the the Family Law Act.

Format: Print; Westlaw Texts and Annotations; ProView
Location: PRAC
Type: Looseleaf – 10 releases a year
This looseleaf includes an annotation of the Family Law Act, as well as a discussion of cohabitation law in Ontario and valuation, income tax and enforcement. Its appendices include matrimonial quantums, precedents, checklists and related material.

Format: Lexis+
Location: GL does not have a print copy; available in multiple county libraries
Type: Monograph
While this book annotates the Children and Family Services Act (Nova Scotia), each chapter contains a brief concordance of child protection statutes in Canada. It has chapters on child protection at the Supreme Court of Canada and child protection with respect to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Format: Print
Location: PRAC & closed stacks
Type: Annual
This annual publication annotates the Family Law Rules. It includes a list of family court addresses and family mediation and information service providers

Format: Print & ProView
Location: PRAC
Type: Looseleaf – 7 releases a year
This looseleaf annotates the Family Law Rules, Courts of Justice Act, Rules of Civil Procedure and many other civil procedure statutes and regulations.