This Week in Family Law Newsletter

There's room for everyone on the Nice List — Buddy the Elf

In recent years, we've used the year end edition of TWFL as a platform for discussing our concerns about the state of the family justice system in Canada.

In 2022's final edition, we wrote about the "signs that our already backlogged family justice system is in serious crisis."

In 2023's final edition, we opined that because of ongoing neglect by both levels of government, "the system may be on the precipice of collapse."

And, more recently, in the October 28, 2024 (2024-41) edition, we commented that perhaps the time has come to "just admit that the system, as currently constituted, is beyond repair and cannot be fixed", and we are faced with "a fundamentally broken system largely brought about by the failure of the Federal and Provincial Governments across the country to provide the family justice system (and, to be blunt, the entire justice system) with the air and financial assistance it needs to breath, and to be able to do the incredibly important work it must do."

We're tired of being such downers. It is soul-sucking. So this year, we wanted to end things on a happier note by taking a moment to focus on some of the positive developments in family law.

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