CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) has just released an excellent new tool, Steps in a Family Law Case, which guides you through family court processes.
This is a very helpful resource for service providers and women with family law issues. It lays out the family law case as a flowchart.
In Canada, marriage is ended by way of a civil divorce, pursuant to the terms of the Divorce Act, which set outs such requirements as:
At least one of the parties has to have been resident in the province where the divorce application is being made for at least one year
The parties have to have lived separate and apart for at least one year OR the party seeking the divorce must be able to establish either adultery or unconscionable cruelty by the other party
As well as terminating the marriage,
The Power and Control Wheel of domestic violence is a very well-known and used tool developed in Duluth, Minnesota, by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP). It reflects the experiences of women who have been battered by their male partners.
Now translated into more than 40 languages the Wheel is used around the world by those working to support women who have experienced violence,
In 2011, Pamela Cross was commissioned by the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Western University to undertake research and write a report about confidentiality issues in the development and use of community collaborations to address high risk domestic violence cases.
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