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A comprehensive archived video about the Family Rules for new to intermediate family lawyers, non-family lawyers who require a refresher and students interested in pursuing a career in family law. This archived video will discuss several key Rules and how to use them to your advantage at crucial steps in family law litigation.
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Adam Black, Torkin Manes LLP Lindsay van Roosendaal, Torkin Manes LLP
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Financial Statements and Disclosure Issues
- Disclosing your client’s income to his/her advantage
- Tips to complete the budget on behalf of payers v. payees
- What constitutes property? Listing values, debts and notional dispositional
- Costs
- The rules and realities of excluded property
- Assessing your opponent’s Form 13
- The inadequate or incorrect financial statement – Ethical obligations and how to deal with a client unwilling to disclose
- Dealing with unreported income – reconciling a lawyer’s obligation to the client and to the Court
- Disclosure: When is enough enough?
Brian Burke, Epstein Cole LLP Sara Mintz, Torkin Manes LLP
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The Application and Answer – Setting the Stage to Tell the Story
- Drafting the pleadings to effectively convey the issues
- Dealing with jurisdictional issues
- Affidavit in support of a claim for custody or access – Form 35.1
- When, why and how to amend pleadings
- The useful v. useless reply
- Overcoming the “respondent” disadvantage
- Naming and adding parties
Harold Niman, Niman Zemans Gelgoot LLP
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Navigating the Rules at Court Conferences
- Case conferences, settlement conferences and pre-trial conferences: tips and techniques
- Obtaining court orders at a conference – procedural v. substantive orders
Navigating the Rules at Motions
- When will the court accept that your emergency motion is actually an emergency?
- Popular motions that are destined to succeed/fail
- Motions to vary interim orders – tricks of the trade
- 14B Motions – when and how to use them
Lorna Yates, Ballantyne Yates LLP
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Offers to Settle
- The strategic use of offers to achieve the client’s goals
- Timing offers to settle
- Strategy for including an expiration clause in your offer to settle
Costs
- Increasing the likelihood of obtaining costs
- Partial v. substantial indemnity – how to maximize the costs order
- Preventing the costs order against your client
Bryan Smith, Bastedo Stewart Smith
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Enforcing Orders
- Enforcement techniques for monetary payments
- The mystery of the Family Responsibility Office
- The challenges of enforcing custody/access orders
- The elusive motion for contempt
Georgina Carson, MacDonald & Partners LLP
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Using the Family Law Rules and Rules of Professional Conduct as Tools for Advocacy
- Practising with civility – weaving together the Family Law Rules and the Rules of Professional Conduct
- Treating the Court with courtesy and respect
- Communicating with witnesses giving evidence
- Dealing with self-represented parties
- Getting off the record
The Honourable Madam Justice Susanne Goodman, Superior Court of Justice Stephen Grant, Grant & Sadvari Fareen Jamal, Bales Beall LLP
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