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John-Paul E. Boyd KC

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John-Paul Boyd Arbitration Chambers

On-Demand Programs

  • Effective Legal Support: Resolving Family Law Disputes Outside of Court (On-Demand)

    Explore key functions of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes, with topics including, how mediation, arbitration, and mediation-arbitration work, how legal support can help prepare, and the types of documents involved. This on-demand program was originally presented as an in-person program titled Family Law for Legal Support Staff on June 6, 2024.  Total running time is 1 hour, 17 minutes.
  • Family Law for Legal Support Staff (On-Demand)

    Explore key topics for legal support staff through this comprehensive program, including family property spreadsheets, understanding ADR processes, trial preparation (including summary and expedited trials), mental health strategies, effective communication, and a guide for legal support staff on reviews of lawyers’ charges. Tailored to equip legal support professionals with strategies to effectively support both lawyers and clients, these programs also consider best practices and tools to maintain digital file organization. These on-demand programs were originally presented on June 6, 2024. The total running time for each presentation ranges between 35 minutes to 1 hour, 17 minutes.
  • Designing Family Law Arbitration Processes: Managing Time, Efficiency, and Cost (On-Demand)

    Discuss the minimum duties of arbitrators under the Arbitration Act and the options available for the creative design of arbitration hearings to create streamlined processes that are proportionate to the parties’ circumstances.  This on-demand program originally broadcast on April 26, 2022. Total running time is 1 hour, 20 minutes.
  • Managing Conflict in Parenting Coordination Processes (On-Demand)

    Explore strategies for managing conflict in parenting coordination processes. Consider enforcement and compliance issues and ways that the parenting coordination process can be adapted and streamlined to reduce conflict. This on-demand program originally broadcast on February 15, 2022. Total running time is 1 hour, 16 minutes.
  • The Expanding Meaning of “Other Cause”: Support Entitlements of Adult Children (On-Demand)

    Child support for adult children was once limited to cases involving ill or disabled children and those attending full-time post-secondary education. Those limits have been steadily eroded over the past two decades. Discuss the case law expanding the entitlement of adult children. You can no longer assume that an adult child who isn’t ill, disabled, or a student has no entitlement to support. This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on June 10, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 4 minutes.
  • Amendments to the Divorce Act: Understanding Parenting and Relocation (On-Demand)

    Significant changes to the Divorce Act will come into effect on July 1, 2020 that will change how the legislation deals with parenting after separation, relocation, and assessing the best interests of children. Hear a comprehensive overview of the pending changes to the Divorce Act and the Child Support Guidelines, and discuss some of the new resources being rolled out by the federal Department of Justice to support the amended legislation. This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on June 3, 2020. Total running time is 49 minutes.
  • COVID-19 Case Law: Family Law in the Age of the Coronavirus (On-Demand)

    Discuss the case law accumulating across Canada on family law disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic. Examine the five leading cases in detail, the general principles emerging from the case law, and the court’s test for urgency. This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on May 13, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 6 minutes.

Papers

  • Client and Lawyer Satisfaction with Unbundled Legal Services: Conclusions from the Alberta Limited Legal Services Project

    This paper is complimentary.
  • Economic and Other Issues of Spouses Separating Later in Life in Canada

    Canada’s aging population not only poses a number of problems in the economic and social spheres, but the family justice system is impacted as well. This paper examines age and other characteristics of the Canadian population, recent trends in divorce and remarriage, and the economic consequences of separation later in life. A number of legal issues surrounding later-in-life divorces are addressed, including the conflicting property interests of new spouses and adult children from previous marriages, the possibility that payors subsisting on fixed incomes may have concurrent support obligations to more than one spouse, and the divisibility of old age pensions and other public benefits. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s 50th Annual Refresher in Lake Louise from May 7–9th, 2017.  
  • A Miscellany of Recent, Frequently Cited Appellate Child Support Decisions

    This paper digests 10 of the most frequently cited judicial decisions on child support rendered by courts of appeal in Canada in the past 3 years. The decisions address aspects of the Federal Child Support Guidelines, SOR/97-175 [Guidelines], that tend to be most prone to litigation, including imputing income (ss 18–19), support for adult children (s 3), special expenses (s 7), and averaging income (s 17). Other provisions highlighted in the cases include retroactive support orders, incomes in excess of $150,000, and shared custody. In addition, a summary discussion of some of the key Guidelines-related issues is also provided.
    This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Family Law 25 program in Edmonton on March 3, 2016 and in Calgary on March 8, 2016.
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