C-223At consideration in committee in the House of CommonsPrivate Member’s Bill
An Act to amend the Divorce Act
Short title: Keeping Children Safe Act
Sponsor:
Lisa Hepfner, Member of Parliament (Hamilton Mountain)
Proposed changes
This enactment amends the Divorce Act to, among other things, (a) require legal advisers who undertake to act on a spouse’s behalf in a divorce proceeding to assess the risk of family violence and, if there is a risk, to take steps to implement an appropriate plan; (b) provide the means by which a court may more accurately assess the impact of coercive control on a parent-child relationship so as to ensure that children are protected from domestic violence after a separation or divorce; (c) allow a court, if certain conditions are met, to obtain information or evidence directly from a child in writing or by means of an interview with the child for the purpose of determining the child’s views and preferences…
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“Bill C-223 (Keeping Children Safe Act), with respect to precluding reliance on myths and stereotypes, replacing the maximum contact assumption, modifying the best interests of…”
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