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==Overview of the various laws around family violence== | ==Overview of the various laws around family violence== | ||
This chapter covers laws and legal mechanisms used to address family violence. Because family violence is not only a ''family law'' topic, the chapter discusses overlapping areas of law, including: | This chapter covers laws and legal mechanisms used to address family violence. Because family violence is not only a ''family law'' topic, the chapter discusses overlapping areas of law, including: | ||
* the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' and its treatment of family violence, | * the ''[[Family Violence and the Family Law Act|Family Law Act]]'' and its treatment of family violence, | ||
* Child protection issues, | * [[Family Violence and Child Protection|Child protection]] issues, | ||
* Canada's | * Family violence in the [[Family Violence and the Criminal Code |context of Canada's ''Criminal Code'']], with information for victims of crime and those accused, and | ||
* civil claims and the ''law of torts'' designed to make wrongdoers pay compensation to plaintiffs for the losses they have suffered. | * [[Suing for Family Violence in a Family Law Claim|civil claims]] and the ''law of torts'' designed to make wrongdoers pay compensation to plaintiffs for the losses they have suffered. | ||
===The ''Family Law Act''=== | ===The ''Family Law Act''=== | ||