Annotated Family Practice 2025-2026 - Print

All the family law legislation you need in one place

This publication is essential for: all family law lawyers who need quick access to family law legislation in the office or on the go

Current to: February 15, 2025

In the fast pace of family law, you need quick access to case law and legislation frequently. Annotated Family Practice is your invaluable and portable compilation of all core BC family law statutes, rules, regulations, guidelines, and practice directions. Leading family law lawyers have selected and prepared succinct summaries of significant cases you need to know about under key legislation, such as the Child Support Guidelines, the Family Law Act, and the Child, Family and Community Service Act. 

With this resource, you will be able to:

• access the language of the key Acts, Rules, and Regulations that govern a family law matter
  
• quickly identify leading cases under specific sections of legislation
  
• find the Child Support Guidelines table amount of support easily
  
• easily refer to key sections of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines

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Highlights of the 2025-2026 Edition

The 2025–2026 edition incorporates amendments and updates to the legislation, rules, practice directions, and summaries of case law to February 15, 2025. The book includes the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines and summaries of significant decisions under the Family Law Act and the Child Support Guidelines. This edition:

• contains recent amendments to legislation, including the Family Law Act and Divorce Act, and revisions to the Supreme Court Family Rules, Provincial Court Family Rules, and Court of Appeal Rules
• now includes the text of the federal Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act and its regulations
• refers to new case law on the following topics, among others:
  • under the Child Support Guidelines, the effects of the following on the determination of Guideline income: children pursuing post-secondary education; the payor's financial support from their family; corporate income; carrying charges; and employee pensions
  • under the Family Law Act: estrangement; separation agreements and ordinary law of contract; appointment of parenting coordinators; stays in favour of arbitration; paternity testing; multi-parent families; family violence and the best interests test; unfounded assumptions about family violence; notice of guardianship applications; orders for contact; views of the children in relocation applications; recognition and supersession of extraprovincial orders; bankruptcy and property division, and interim distributions; unrealized inheritances; excluded and co-mingled property; interim distribution orders when there is a marriage agreement; signed authority to pay as evidence of oral agreement; unequal division; extraprovincial pension plans; spousal support and evidence of loss suffered; protection and conduct orders, including against a non-family member, and breaches; (no) suspension of limitation periods for medical reasons; hearsay evidence; appointment of counsel for children; s. 211 reports, including the threshold for one, and their role and costs; and the Family Law Act's transitional provisions

Note: The chapters containing the annotated versions of An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families and the Child, Family and Community Services Act (and its regulation and rules) have been removed with this update. These are now included with CLEBC's new standalone practice manual on child protection law in BC: Child and Family Services Law and Practice.

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

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