Glossary for Child Support in BC: Difference between revisions

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Child Support in BC from People's Law School is no longer available. For updated coverage of this topic, see Dial-A-Law's page on child support.

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+'''''Child Support in BC''''' from [[People's Law School]] is no longer available. For updated coverage of this topic, [[Introduction to Child Support | see Dial-A-Law's page on child support]].
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-;Access: Under the Divorce Act, the time a parent has with a child.
-Agreement: An agreement, usually in writing,
-which two or more people use to
-record their settlement of legal
-issues, like child support.
-Arbitration: A dispute resolution process in
-which the parties submit their
-dispute to a neutral third party, an
-arbitrator, and agree to be bound
-by the arbitrator’s decision.
-Arbitrator: A person who is trained to act as
-a neutral third party to conduct
-hearings, receive evidence and
-resolve a dispute outside the
-court process.
-Applicant: The person who makes an
-application to court. In the
-Provincial Court, the person who
-begins a court case. The person
-against whom the application
-or claim is brought is the
-Respondent.
-Arrears: A payor’s debt of unpaid child
-support and special expenses,
-usually accumulating because
-an agreement or order said that
-child support was to be paid.
-Child
-support:
-A regulation that talks about how
-child support is calculated.
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