Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
When seven-year-old Sarah Jackson headed off to spend time with her father in mid-November, she and her mother assumed she would be back at the end of the scheduled visitation time. Instead, her father fled with her because, unlike her Continue reading Courts & vaccines for kids
Women who have left relationships in which their partners have abused them are often reluctant to disclose this information to their lawyer when they begin a family law case. For many, the abuse is a long-kept family secret. They carry Continue reading HELP is here!
Almost a year has passed since the implementation of significant revisions to the parenting provisions in Canada’s Divorce Act. The changes include new language, a detailed definition of family violence, and a list of 11 criteria to guide courts when Continue reading Best for kids and mums
A lot of changes are needed to make the family law/court system work for survivors of family violence and their children. One of the first is for the system to stop treating violence within families as though it is a Continue reading What about the men?