Posts Tagged ‘legal bullying’
After She Leaves: Legal bullying
The content in this post is adapated from our recently updated After She Leaves Resource Manual. Click here to learn more about the manual. What is legal bullying? When an abuser uses the family law and court processes as a strategy to try to maintain power and control over their ex-partner, it is called legal bullying. The abuser…
Read moreLegal bullying: When leaving doesn’t end the abuse
One of the most troubling kinds of post-separation abuse is legal bullying: the intentional misuse and manipulation of family laws and family court processes by the abuser.
Read moreShorten the time to resolution in Ontario’s family court processes: Luke’s Place submission to Honourable Lindsey Park
This is the third in a series of posts from the Luke’s Place submission to the review underway by the Parliamentary Assistant to the Attorney General, Lindsey Park, on family and civil legislation, regulations, and processes. Streamlining the processes to shorten the time to resolution We fully support the notion of shortening the time it…
Read moreCase law: Consequences for ongoing lack of disclosure
In Manchanda v Thethi 2016 ONSC 3776, Justice Myers begins his decision in this case about financial disclosure by asking: “When is enough, enough?” It is easy to see why he posed this question, as there had been more than 70 requests for disclosure, almost all of them made by the applicant mother, that had…
Read moreCase law: Financial bullying as family violence
Hokhold v Gerbrandt 2015 BCCA 268 is a British Columbia case, so it is not binding on Ontario cases. As well the B.C. Family Law Act contains a number of provisions that are different from those in Ontario’s legislation. Nonetheless, the case is interesting because the court identifies financial bullying as family violence sufficient to…
Read moreHow can a woman get current tax information from her former spouse?
A common legal bullying tactic of abusive men is to slow down family court proceedings by failing to file documents in a timely manner or by filing incomplete documents. Nowhere is this more common than with the filing of Financial Statements, which are required whenever there is a claim for support (child or spousal) or…
Read moreHow can I support a woman who is unrepresented in family court?
The number of litigants in family court who do not have lawyers has reached a critical point, with between 50 and 80% of cases now involving at least one party who is unrepresented. While not having a lawyer is of concern to any litigant, the impact on a woman who has left an abusive partner…
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