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Family Law Reform

Couples and families

• Marriage, civil union and de facto union
  • Marriage
    • Opposition to the solemnization of a marriage
    • Conditions of marriage
      • Legal age for marriage
      • Family relationship and marriage
      • Freedom from any bond or marriage or civil union
      • Free and enlightened consent
      • Presence at your marriage ceremony
    • Conditions for the solemnization of a marriage
      • Place of the marriage ceremony
        • Marriage solemnized outside Québec
      • Time and language of the marriage ceremony
      • Witnesses to the marriage
    • Preparation for marriage
      • Before your marriage ceremony
        • Officiants authorized to solemnize a marriage
          • Marriage solemnized by a close relative or friend
        • Interview with the officiant
          • Notice of publication of the marriage
          • Documents required for the interview with the officiant for your marriage
        • Marriage contract
      • During the marriage ceremony
    • Married name
    • Administrative fee for a marriage
    • Annulment or dissolution of a marriage
  • Civil union
    • Conditions of a civil union
      • Legal age for forming a civil union
      • Family relationships and civil union
      • Freedom from any bond or marriage or civil union
      • Free and enlightened consent to a civil union
      • Presence at your civil union ceremony
    • Conditions for the solemnization of a civil union
      • Place of the civil union ceremony
      • Time and language of the civil union ceremony
      • Witnesses to the civil union
    • Preparation for a civil union
      • Before your civil union ceremony
        • Officiants authorized to solemnize a civil union
          • Civil union solemnized by a close relative or friend
        • Interview with the officiant before the civil union ceremony
          • Documents required for the interview with the officiant for your civil union
          • Notice of publication of the civil union
        • Civil union contract
      • During the civil union ceremony
    • Administrative fee for a civil union
    • Opposition to the solemnization of a civil union
  • Officiant
    • Conditions for acting as an officiant
    • Legal steps in a marriage or civil union ceremony
      • Before the marriage or civil union ceremony
        • Notice of publication of the marriage or civil union (action taken by officiant)
        • Verification of the intended spouses’ eligibility
        • Dispensation from publication of a marriage or civil union
      • At the marriage or civil union ceremony
      • After the ceremony
    • Measures that may be taken against an officiant
  • Effects of marriage and civil union
    • Family patrimony
      • Residences used by the family
      • Earnings registered under the Québec Pension Plan
      • Partition of the family patrimony
    • Matrimonial regimes
      • Partnership of acquests
      • Separation as to property
      • Community of property
      • Changing a regime during a marriage or civil union
    • Declaration of family residence
      • Scope of the protection given to the family residence
      • Cancellation of a declaration of family residence
  • De facto union
    • Your rights
    • Your obligations
    • Your protections
      • Breakdown of a de facto union
        • Cohabitation agreement
        • Family residence
      • Death
• Parenthood
  • Filiation
    • Declaration of birth
    • How is filiation established?
    • How is filiation proved?
    • Choice of a child's name
      • Change of name
  • Parental authority
    • End of parental authority
    • Deprivation of parental authority
  • Adoption
    • Recognition of pre-existing bonds of filiation
    • Communication agreement
    • Information relating to identity or to establishing contact
    • Medical information
  • Tutorship to a person under the age of 18
• Separation and divorce
  • Family mediation - Negotiating a fair agreement
    • Mediation: nature and goals
    • Use of mediation
    • Québec Family Mediation Day
    • Free information session on parenting after separation
      • Registration and sessions calendar
    • Choice of a family mediator
    • Search for family mediator
    • Content and procedure for the mediation session
    • Parents’ roles
    • Role of mediator
    • Duration and cost of mediation
    • Steps to take following mediation
    • Complaint against a mediator
    • Reference tools
  • Children: a joint responsibility
    • Main principles used to determine child custody
    • Child support
      • Child Support Payments Calculation tool
      • The Québec model for the determination of child support payments
      • Tables to determine the basic parental contribution
      • Exemption from making support payments to a former spouse via Revenu Québec
      • Collection and remittance of support payments outside Québec
      • Service administratif de rajustement des pensions alimentaires pour enfants (SARPA)
      • Homologation Assistance Service (HAS)
      • Cancellation of child support payments
    • Abduction of a child by a parent
      • Legal remedies in a case of interprovincial child abduction
      • Assistance of the Central Authority for Québec in cases of international child abduction
      • Situations in which it is not possible to secure a child's return
      • Contact the Central Authority for Québec
      • Information for legal professionnals
  • Marriage or civil union
    • Divorce
      • How to apply for divorce?
      • Obtaining a court judgment
      • Cost of proceedings for legal separation or divorce
      • Gifts
    • Amicable divorce
      • Application for divorce based on a draft agreement
        • Who can file an application?
        • Filing an application
        • Preparing an application
        • Cost of proceedings for legal separation or divorce
    • One of the parties does not reside in Québec
    • De facto separation
      • End of the de facto separation
    • Legal separation (separation from bed and board)
    • Dissolution of a civil union
      • Joint notarial declaration
      • Dissolution of a civil union granted by the court
      • Gifts
      • Obtaining a court judgment
    • Support payments for a former spouse
      • Exemption from making support payments to a former spouse via Revenu Québec
    • Partition of the family patrimony
    • Compensatory allowance
  • De facto union
    • Recourse based on a cohabitation contract
    • Will
    • Amicable separation
    • Obligation of support towards a former de facto spouse
    • Partition of employment earnings by former de facto spouses
  • Family law services provided by legal aid offices
• Justice and mental disorder
  • Protective supervision
  • Non-judicial treatment of certain criminal offences committed by adults
  • Justice and mental health support program

Your disputes

• Small claims
  • Maximum amount of claim
  • Mediation at the Small Claims Division
  • Information sessions on Small Claims
  • Sending a formal notice before filing an application
  • Who can sue or be sued?
    • Plaintiff
    • Defendant
    • Representation (mandate)
    • Ability to take legal action
    • Death or incapacity of a party
    • Proceedings against the Québec government
    • Proceedings against the Government of Canada
    • Intervention by a third person
  • Time limit for filing an application (prescription)
  • Where to file an application
    • Referral of an application to another district or court
    • Transfer of a case to the Small Claims Division
    • Summary appeal respecting a fiscal matter
  • Process and help for the applicant
    • Filing an application at the Small Claims Division (SJ-870E)
      • Technical requirements
    • Key points for filing an application
    • Defendant who cannot be located
    • Assistance from the clerk
      • Making an appoitnment with the clerk
      • Obtaining assistance if your application is refused
    • After your application has been checked by the clerk
    • If your application is not checked by the clerk
    • Procedure after the application is filed
    • Proceedings against the Québec government
    • Proceedings against the Government of Canada
  • Options available to the defendant
    • Response to an action at the Small Claims Division SJ-871E)
      • Technical requirements
    • Mediation at the Small Claims Division
    • Defending on the merits
    • Referral of an application to another district or court
    • Cross-application
    • Intervention by a third person
    • Settlement
    • Payment of the amount claimed
  • Conduct of the hearing
    • Preparing for the hearing and calling parties and witnesses
    • Affidavit in lieu of testimony
    • Amendment of an application after filing
    • Evidence
    • Witnesses called to a hearing
    • Postponement and time needed to obtain a hearing
    • Representation (mandate)
    • Stay of hearing at the Small Claims Division
    • Discontinuance of a case at the Small Claims Division
    • Recovery and destruction of exhibits
  • Small claims judgment
    • Judgment by default
    • Revocation of judgment
    • Voluntary execution of a judgment
    • Forced execution of a judgment
    • Opposition to seizure following a decision at the Small Claims division
  • Cost of procedures and payment of Court costs
    • Tariff of court costs
    • Witnesses Indemnities
    • Interest
    • Methods of payment
• Dispute prevention and resolution (DPR) processes
  • Obligation to consider private dispute prevention and resolution (DPR) processes
  • Negotiation
  • Mediation
    • Cost of mediation
    • Mediator and mediation process
    • Family mediation
    • Small claims mediation
    • Citizen mediation
    • Online mediation service at the Office de la protection du consommateur – PARLe
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  • Conciliation
  • Settlement conferences
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• Civil proceedings
  • Courts of appeal
  • Parties to a trial
  • Witnesses called to a Civil proceedings
  • Time limit for filing an application (prescription)
  • Which court will hear your case?
  • Stages in civil trials
  • Costs of a civil trial
• Sending a formal notice before filing an application
  • Writing and sending a formal notice
• Being a good Neighbour
  • Property limits and boundary determination
  • Temporary access to property
    • Objects or animals encroaching onto someone else's property as a result of superior or natural force
  • Protection of another person’s property
  • Encroachment
  • Views
  • Right of way
  • Water runoff
  • Right to use a spring or watercourse
  • Fences and common walls
  • Trees and branches
  • Noise
• Decisions of the Régie du logement
  • Executing a decision of the Régie du logement
  • Revocation of a judgment of the Régie du logement
  • Appealing from a decision of the Régie du logement
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Your money and your possessions

• Wills
  • Who can make a will?
  • Before making a will
    • Life insurance of the deceased
    • Wills and the obligation of support
    • Types of heirs
    • People who cannot inherit
    • Liquidators
  • Forms of will
    • Will made in the presence of witnesses
    • Notarial will
    • Holograph will
  • Cost of preparing a will
  • Amending a will
• Successions
  • What needs to be done if a close relative or friend dies
    • Certificate of death
    • Searching for a will
    • Appointing a liquidator
      • Accepting or refusing the role of liquidator
      • Replacing the liquidator
      • The liquidator's remuneration
    • Accepting or refusing a succession
  • Partitioning of the family patrimony and liquidation of the matrimonial or civil union regime
  • How to settle a succession
    • Inventory of property and notice of closure
    • Notice of closure of inventory
    • Payment of a succession’s debts
    • Delivery and partition of property
    • Succession with a will
      • Probating the will
      • Consulting a will
      • Liquidators
    • Dying without leaving a will
      • Degree of relationship
      • Representation of an heir
      • Distribution of the inheritance in a legal succession (table)
  • Unclaimed or refused successions
• Voluntary deposit
  • Legal aspects of voluntary deposit
    • Limits of the protection granted to the debtor
    • Public access to voluntary deposit files
    • Threats, harassment and intimidation
  • To benefit from the voluntary deposit procedure
  • Registering for voluntary deposit
    • Content of the declaration
  • Deposit and distribution of the amounts deposited
    • Calculating your gross monthly income
    • Calculating the seizable portion of your income
    • Table of exemptions for calculation of the seizable portion of your income
    • Distribution to your creditors
    • Special rules if support payments are owed
    • Interest rate
  • Amending your declaration
  • Loss of the protection of voluntary deposit and closure of your file
    • Payment of your debts
    • Waiving the benefit of voluntary deposit
    • Bankruptcy
    • Death
  • Rights and obligations of creditors
    • Contesting a declaration
    • Your share of the amounts deposited
    • Information on the debtor’s situation
• Seizure
  • Unseizable property and income
  • Opposition to seizure
  • Notice of sale
  • Sale price of your property
  • Stay or annulment of a sale
  • Annulment of the sale of seized property
  • Release of seizure
  • Seizure in the hands of a third person
    • Seizure of your income
      • Table of exemptions for calculation of the seizable portion of your income
    • Declaration by a garnishee
    • Failure by the garnishee
    • Distribution to creditors
    • Service of the notice of execution
  • Seizure of movable property
    • Minutes of seizure
    • Custody of seized property
    • Distribution of proceeds
    • Opposition to seizure
      • Service of the opposition
    • Payment of the cost of the seizure and cost of the sale
  • Seizure of immovable property
    • Minutes of seizure
    • Custody of seized property
  • Seizure before judgment
• Bankruptcy
  • Steps in the bankruptcy process
    • Court judgment concerning discharge
  • Seizable and unseizable property
  • Request for information concerning a bankrupt
  • Choice of a trustee in bankruptcy
  • Superintendent of Bankruptcy
    • Complaint against a trustee
  • Consumer proposal
• Power of attorney and protective supervision
  • Power of attorney (mandate)
    • The contract
    • Remuneration of the mandatary
    • Mandator's obligations
    • Mandatary's obligations
    • Termination of the mandate
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  • Protective supervision
• Co-ownership

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• Domestic violence
  • Terminating a residential lease in the event of spousal violence or sexual aggression
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