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, 2024

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 this Update include:

• tax advice, legislation, and case law updated to November 15, 2024, including guidance on the new Budget Measures Implementation (Residential Property (Short-Term Holding) Profit Tax) Act, 2024 and on changes in use of property
• commentary on the implementation of the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance in British Columbia
• new and revised commentary and clauses on pension division in family law agreements, given recent and upcoming legislative amendments
• addition of new case law, including Block v. Block and Falconer v. Cohrs on enforcement and setting aside of agreement terms; Loss v. Walters and Liu v. Zhao on minutes of settlement; Hamdi v. Ali on res judicata; Botten v. Botten on standards of review; and Yegre EB Ltd. v. Seguin on exclusive jurisdiction clauses
• updated commentary throughout and updates to the sample agreements

Discover all of our Family Law resources here

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

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