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The federal ''Divorce Act''
The federal ''Divorce Act''
The purpose of this requirement is to make sure that the court is aware of any legal proceedings that might be going on outside the family law case, so that it doesn't, for example, give lots of unsupervised parenting time to a spouse who is accused of abusing the other spouse or the children.
==Resources and links==
===Legislation===
* the old ''[http://canlii.ca/t/53z6j Divorce Act]''
* [https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/BillDetails.aspx?Language=E&billId=9868788 Bill C-78]
===Links===
*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6db734b1059890c89e8172/t/5ba523950d92974174f67c28/1537549206845/A+Brief+Overview+of+Bill+C78+-+Pt+1+-+June+2018.pdf An Overview of Bill C-78] by John-Paul Boyd
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