This Week in Family Law Newsletter

God Bless Us, Everyone!

Welcome to the final edition of TWFL for 2023. For the final edition, we've decided to not delve into any specific cases, but rather to discuss the precarious state of the family justice system in Canada — something light and fluffy.

In last year's final edition of TWFL, we expressed concern that we were seeing "signs that our already backlogged family justice system is in serious crisis," and called on the "Federal government and their provincial counterparts to finally provide the family justice system with the resources it desperately needs to be able to provide timely, efficient, and fair access to justice for families across Canada."

Unfortunately, over the past year, both levels of government have continued to ignore and neglect the problem; and as a result, the system may be on the precipice of collapse...

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