Family Law Agreements: Annotated Precedents - Print

Your time-saving tool for drafting family law agreements

This publication is essential for: lawyers and mediators drafting family law agreements

Current to: November 15, 2025

Drafting family law agreements requires careful consideration and can be time-consuming, especially when you may not have a large collection of clauses to choose from. With Family Law Agreements: Annotated Precedents, you have access to carefully considered precedents of some of BC's most accomplished family law lawyers. To help you draft effective agreements, this tool gives you sample clauses, commentary explaining the law and best use of the clauses, and tax advisories throughout. 

With this resource, you will be able to:

• conveniently build a collection of family law clauses that are updated annually
  
• quickly access a wide range of clauses to fit your client's situation
  
• understand the tax considerations when advising on specific arrangements for a family law agreement

Buy today to access your ready-made family law clause bank! View a sample from this book!

The 2025 Update to Family Law Agreements: Annotated Precedents includes new commentary, clause language amendments, and additions that reflect developments in the law that emerged during 2024.

Highlights of the 2025 Update include:

• tax advice, legislation, and case law updated to November 15, 2025, including discussion on allocations between child and spousal support, transfers of funds out of RRIFs and RRSPs, bare trust reporting requirements, and Dignard v. Dignard on capital gains tax
• substantially revised commentary on issues of assisted reproduction, fertility law, and polyamorous families in connection with family law agreements
• new and revised commentary and clauses on pension division in family law agreements, and addition of a pension division clause to the sample separation agreement
• addition of new case law, including Schrader v. Schrader and Bradley v. Callahan on unfairness and setting aside agreements, Banh v. Chrysler on valuation dates, Mills v. O'Connor on tracing, and Heritage Trust Company Inc. v. Garrett on unjust enrichment
• updated commentary throughout and updates to the sample agreements

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CLEBC Legal Editor
Edie Ryan
eryan@cle.bc.ca

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