One of the recurring frustrations in family law practice is the increasingly common tactic where opposing counsel is mysteriously “unavailable” for any proposed hearing date. The pattern is familiar: counsel ignores written requests for dates, follow-up correspondence is required, and
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Court Provides Detailed Analysis of Income Determination for Corporate Shareholders
Justice Briana Hardwick of the British Columbia Supreme Court, formerly highly respected family law counsel, released her Reasons in S.D.N. v. E.G.N.,2025 BCSC 1994 on Oct. 10, a treatise on the determination of income of a party who is a…
Hague Abduction Case Pits BC Supreme Court Against Bulgaria’s District Court
In Zahariev v. Zahariev 2025 BCCA 35 the British Columbia Court of Appeal considered a Hague Convention case which featured a contest between Bulgaria’s District Court and the British Columbia Supreme Court, in relation to the parties’ infant daughter, Neva.
Neva’s…
Exploring the Tort of Conspiracy in Family Law Cases
In a ten-year marathon of family litigation between 2009 and 2019, the battling Michie’s were in the Court of Appeal six times and visited the Supreme Court 13 times. (Waters v. Michie 2011 BCCA 364) Ms. Michie’s litigation arsenal included…
REASONS UNDERLYING COURT ORDER ARE AN IMPORTANT INTERPRETIVE TOOL
It is trite law that an appeal is from an order made by a lower court, however, in Der v. Hlookoff 2025 BCCA 193 the British Columbia Court of Appeal considered the role of reasons for judgment in interpreting…
High-Conflict Divorce Drives Up Legal Costs Unnecessarily
While high-conflict family law trials are not the norm, they continue to overwhelm the justice system in numbers that seem to be escalating. JP v. KS 2025 BCCA 112 is such a case.
The litigation began in September 2018 when the…
Appeal Court Remedies Unfair Marriage Agreement
In Bradley v. Callahan 2025 BCCA 69, the parties’ September 1997 marriage agreement, some 35 pages, executed two days before their marriage, became the subject of intense litigation when their marriage ended in 2014, culminating in a 40-day trial and…
Limitation Period for Appeal of Arbitration Award Upheld, Despite Later Interpretation Award
In Nordine v. Nordine 2025 BCSC 829, the British Columbia Supreme Court recently considered an appeal to strike a Notice of Appeal from a family arbitration award. The issue was whether the arbitrator’s “interpretation” of the award, pursuant to s.…
Court Considers Several Common, but Complex Financial Issues in Two-Day Hearing
In MacDonald v. MacDonald 2025 ABKB 72 Justice Lema considered several important issues that often present themselves in family law cases.
The first question posed was whether post-separation Mr. MacDonald was obliged to pay child and spousal support during the…
A Complicated Analysis: Tracing Excluded Property into Co-mingled Family Property
Family law cases often involve an exercise of tracing to determine the value of excluded property that has been co-mingled with divisible family property. In Millsv. O’Connor 2025 BCCA 34 the Court of Appeal tackles this issue, providing their analysis…