1) Everyone is stressed
Remember everyone is more stressed than usual: your client, her children, her extended family, even her lawyer (if she has one).
Don’t forget to include yourself on the list of people who are more stressed than usual. You may be working from home, without ready access to your colleagues or files.
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Legal Director Pamela Cross delivered the keynote address to the Promoting Access to Justice for Survivors (PATHS) Conference on Monday November 9, 2020.
Good morning! I am really happy to be with all of you today, and thank PATHS for all the work it took to turn this in-person conference into an online event.
A woman living with her common law partner for many years may think she has equal right to their property, but that might not be the case. There are significant differences in legal rights and responsibilities depending on whether people are married or living common-law.
This webinar explores different kinds of intimate relationships,
This webinar provides information on how technology can be used against women experiencing intimate ex/partner violence and provides tips for survivors and advocates around safety planning, managing electronic communication and how to this may be addressed in family court.
This webinar is another in the series on family law issues when there’s family violence presented by Luke’s Place in partnership with CLEO,
Decision-making with an abusive ex-partner is never an easy or straightforward process. Even when the ex-partner has had little involvement in making decisions or planning for the children, many of them have plenty of ideas about what they think the mother should or should not do. For women with school-age children,
Women living in rural and remote communities face unique challenges when they decide to leave an abusive relationship, including distance, lack of services, isolation and limited access to lawyers. This webinar presents tips and strategies for supporting women who are facing these and other barriers, with a focus on women’s emotional and physical safety.
Women have the right to use technology
Eliminating the use of technology will isolate her from friends and family and limit employment and access to information and services. Tech safety planning helps a survivor use technology strategically.
Make it a personalized tech safety plan
Just as an off-line safety plan is personalized for a woman’s specific circumstances,
This webinar looks at the issue of international abduction of children in the context of family violence, with a focus on steps a woman can take to pre-empt an international abduction as well as what she can do if her children are abducted.
This is the latest in a series of webinars on family law issues when there’s family violence presented by Luke’s Place in partnership with CLEO,
Becoming fully competent in working in the spirit of reconciliation is a process. This tip sheet is intended to provide you with ideas to think about and for you, your colleagues and your organization to work towards over time.
Community
1) I know something about the territory and Indigenous communities where I work and live,
Many women who leave abusive relationships are dealing with multiple legal issues, each of which has an impact on the other(s). When there is a family law case, a child protection investigation, criminal charges and/or family members’ status in Canada will impact that case. This webinar on intersecting legal issues looks at three common legal systems: family,
