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It was not until 1930, when Parliament passed the Divorce Act (Ontario), that the courts of Ontario were given jurisdiction to grant divorces and annulments. The law granting divorce under this law was according to the law of England as it stood at July 15, 1870 (and thus on the same footing as the prairie provinces and the territories). [20]
Legal Aid BC (formerly the Legal Services Society [1]) is the legal aid provider in British Columbia, Canada.. Services are available for family (separation/divorce and child protection/removal), criminal law matters, and refugee applications, [2] and include legal information, advice, or representation, depending on the client’s legal problem.
A central registry of divorce proceedings has been kept in Canada since July 2, 1968. If there is another divorce application involving the same two spouses, the Registry lets the courts know. Courts must complete an application form and send it to the Registry for each divorce application received.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia upheld Canada's polygamy laws in a 2011 reference case. [45] [46] On March 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of British Columbia reaffirmed the constitutionality of Canada's anti-polygamy laws, [47] upholding the July 2017 polygamy convictions of Winston Blackmore and James Oler. [48]
Judges are considering how to resolve the issue after a ‘technical fault’ let 67 couples get divorced after applying prematurely.
divorce on the ground that the marriage has been strongly impaired due to reasons that can be imputed either to the defendant or both spouses, making the continuation of the marriage unbearable for the petitioner; divorce on the ground of separation of 2 years (Article 14 of Law 3719/2008 reduced the separation period from 4 years to 2 years [130])
The Provincial Court also has limited family law jurisdiction, except for divorce proceedings and the division of matrimonial property. The Supreme Court of British Columbia shares jurisdiction over all matters that may be heard by the Provincial Court, except where exclusive jurisdiction may be conferred by statute on the Provincial Court.
On June 15, 2005, a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Nanaimo granted British Columbia's first same-sex divorce in the case of J.S. v. C.F.. [6] Although same-sex marriage had been legal in British Columbia for two years, the Divorce Act still defined marriage as being "between a man and a woman".