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Contributers: Bhreagh, Anja, Luke, Magda, Chiara, Naomi.

N. Kasirer, “Note: Establishing the Bond of Filiation and the Civilian Conception of Family Relations” - BHREAGH arts. 543–561, 566–578.1 C.C.Q. ss. 136–139, 146, 149(1), 157, 158, 160(1) Ont. CFSA In Re Robert Paul, 481 N.Y.2d 652 (C.A. 1984) - BHREAGH Droit de la famille—1704, [1993] R.J.Q. 1 (C.A.) - BHREAGH B.C. Birth Registration No. 030279, Re (1990), 24 R.F.L. (3d) 437 (B.C.S.C.) - ANJA
 * Class 2 Sept. 3 Filiation by adoption**

Racine c. Woods, [1983] 2 R.C.S. 173 - MAGDA Lori Chambers, Misconceptions: Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921 to 1969 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007) (extraits) - MAGDA Droit de la famille—1914, [1996] R.J.Q. 219 (C.A.) - LUKE optional: Conférence de la Haye de droit internationale privé, Actes et documents de la dix–septième session (extraits) optional: Marlee Kline, “Child Welfare Law, „Best Interests of the Child‟ Ideology, and First Nations” (1992) 30 Osgoode Hall L.J. 375 (myCourses) optional: David L. Eng & Shinhee Han, “Desegregating Love: Transnational Adoption, Racial Reparation, and Racial Transitional Objects” (2006) 7 Studies in Gender and Sexuality 141, esp. at 152–7 (myCourses) optional: David L. Eng, “Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas” (2003) 76 Social Text 1 (myCourses)
 * Class 3 Sept. 8 Adoption cont‟d**

Richard Collier & Sally Sheldon, Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio–Legal Study (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008) at 23–35 M. Eichler et M. McCall, “Clarifying the Legal Dimensions of Fatherhood” (skim) arts. 522–527, 530–533, 535, 535.1 C.C.Q. ss. 1, 4–6, 8–10 Ont. CLRA
 * Class 4 Sept. 10 Introduction to “natural” parentage and filiation by blood**


 * Class 5 Sept. 15 Filiation by blood**
 * Massie c. Carriere, (1972) C.S. 735 **
 * S. (E.A.) c. B. (K.M.) (1989), 24 R.F.L. (3d) 220 (Ont. Div. Ct.) - Naomi **
 * Silber c. Fenske (1995), 11 R.F.L. (4th) 145 (Ont. Gen. Div.) - Naomi **
 * Droit de la famille - 2143, (1995) R.D.F. 137 (C.S.) **
 * Droit de la famille - 3184, (1999) R.J.Q. 201 (C.S.) **

Philippe Malaurie & Hughes Fulchiron, //La famille//, 2d ed. (Paris: Defrenois, 2006) at paras. 1432-6) M.D.R. c. Ontario (Deputy Registrar General), (2006) O.J. No. 2268 (S.C.J.) (headnote)  Vital Statistics Act Regulation amendment, O. Reg. 401/06; within s. 1, read: 2(1) "assisted conception"; 2(2)2 (myCourses, Links to legislation)  Robert Leckey, "'Where the Parents Are of the Same Sex': Quebec's Reforms to Filiation" (2009) 23 Int'l J. L. Pol'y & Fam. 62
 * Class 6 Sept. 17 Assisted conception and same-sex couples**
 * arts. 538-541 C.C.Q. **

**Class 7 Sept. 22** Buist c. Greaves, [1997] O.J. No. 2646 (Ont. Gen.(headnote and paras. 33–35) - Luke A.A. v. B.B. (2007), 83 O.R. (3d) 561 (C.A.) - MAGDA

**Class 8 Sept. 24** s. 15.1 Divorce Act arts. 585–590 C.C.Q. ss. 31, 32, 33(1), (2), (7), (11), (12), (14), 34(1) Ont. FLA Droit de la famille—39, [1983] C.S. 74 - Chiara Jocelyne Olivier, « Pour préserver la solidarité familiale », Le journal du Barreau (15 avril 1996), p. 7 - Chiara Michel Venne, « Un bonbon pour les aînés », Le Devoir (17 mai 1996), p. A8 - Anja Skrzypacz c. Skrzypacz (1996), 22 R.F.L. (4th) 250 (Ont. Prov. Div.) - Naomi Droit de la famille—2626, [1997] R.J.Q. 1117 (C.S.) - Anja

arts. 592, 594 C.C.Q. Droit de la famille—2366, [1996] R.D.F. 321 (C.S.) Willick c. Willick, [1994] 3 R.C.S. 670 (extraits) - Luke Statistics Canada, Child and Spousal Support: Maintenance Enforcement Survey Statistics 2007/2008 (Statistics Canada, 2009) at 5–9
 * Class 9 - Sept. 29**

Federal Child Support Guidelines (myCourses), ss. 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 art. 595 C.C.Q. Francis c. Baker [1999] 3 R.C.S. 250 (headnote) - MAGDA Contino v. Leonelli–Contino, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 217, 2005 SCC 63 (headnote) - Chiara
 * Class 10 - Oct 6**

arts. 32–34 C.C.Q. s. 39, Quebec Charter Édith Deleury & Dominique Goubau, Le droit des personnes physiques, 4th ed. by Dominique Goubau (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2008) at paras. 630–7; optional: paras. 638–49 - Anja Young c. Young, [1993] 4 R.C.S. 3 (extraits) - Luke
 * Class 11 - Oct 8**

arts. 597–612 Divorce Act, s. 16 N. Kasirer, “Note: Parental Authority” - Anja Bell c. Bell, [1955] O.W.N. 341 (C.A.) - Anja Kruger c. Kruger (1979), 25 O.R. (2d) 673 (C.A.) Marie Christine Kirouack, “La jurisprudence relative à la garde: où en sommes–nous rendus?” in Barreau du Québec, Service de la formation permanente, ed., Développements récents en droit familial (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2007) 665 at 722–5 - Anja optional: Richard Collier & Sally Sheldon, Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio–Legal Study (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008) at 163–70 (myCourses) optional: Robert van Krieken, “The „Best Interests of the Child‟ and Parental Separation: On the „Civilising of Parents‟” (2005) 68 Mod. L. Rev. 25
 * Class 12 - Oct 13**

Divorce Act, s. 17 Gordon c. Goertz, [1996] 2 R.C.S. 27 (extraits) - MAGDA D.M. Bourque, “„Reconstructing‟ the Patriarchal Nuclear Family: Recent Developments in Child Custody and Access in Canada” (1995) 10 Can. J. L. & Soc‟y 1, 1–12 N. Bala, Spousal Violence in Custody and Access Disputes: Recommendations for Reform (extraits) - MAGDA M. (K.) c. M. (H.), [1992] 3 R.C.S. 6 (excerpts: read less than is included: S.C.R. pp. 6–13; 61–9) - supplementary summary here optional: Susan B. Boyd, “Child Custody, Relocation, and the Post–Divorce Family Unit: Gordon v. Goertz at the Supreme Court of Canada” (1997) 9 C.J.W.L. 447 (myCourses) optional: W. (V.) c. S.(D.), [1996] 2 R.C.S. 108 (extraits)
 * Class 13 - Oct 15**


 * Class 14 - Oct. 20**
 * no readings***

ss. 2(1) “child of the marriage,” 2(2) Divorce Act s. 1 “child” Ont. FLA Chartier c. Chartier, [1999] 1 R.C.S. 242 - Naomi V.A. c. S.F., [2001] R.J.Q. 36 (C.A.) - Anja optional: Lucinda Ferguson, “Family, Social Inequalities, and the Persuasive Force of Interpersonal Obligation” (2008) 22 Int‟l J. L. Pol‟y & Fam. 61 (myCourses)
 * Class 15 - Oct. 22**

Jane Doe v. Alberta (2007), 278 D.L.R. (4th) 1 (Alta. C.A.) (headnote) - MAGDA Cornelio v. Cornelio (2008), 94 O.R. (3d) 213 (S.C.J.) Droit de la famille—2492, [1996] R.D.F. 662 (C.S.) optional: Daniel Mendelsohn, The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) at 95–109 (myCourses)
 * Class 17 - Oct. 27**

C. (G.) c. V.–F. (T.), [1987] 2 R.C.S. 244 (Luke) optional: Droit de la famille—072895 (2007), [2008] R.J.Q. 49, 2007 QCCA 1640 (myCourses) (striking case of custody shared between two former lesbian partners, only one of whom was the children‟s parent, by adoption)
 * Class 18 - Oct 29**

Rules respecting the solemnization of civil marriages and civil unions, (2003) G.O.Q. II, 1217 skim arts. 365–377 C.C.Q. N. Kasirer, « Note: Marriage » - Anja arts. 380–382 C.C.Q. H.R. Hahlo, “Legal Requirements for a Valid Marriage” in Nullity of Marriage in Canada, Toronto, Butterworths, 1979, 1 (extraits) (skim) - Naomi Droit de la famille—2254, [1995] R.D.F. 556 (C.S.)
 * Class 19 - 3 Nov.**

arts. 521.1–521.19 C.C.Q. Gérard Cornu, La famille, 9th ed. (Paris: Montchrestien, 2006) at para. 53 - MAGDA Philippe Malaurie & Hugues Fulchiron, La famille, 2d ed. (Paris: Defrénois, 2006) at paras. 107–8 Preamble and ss. 1–4, Civil Marriage Act (myCourses) Halpern c. Canada (P.G.) (2003), 65 O.R. (3d) 161 (C.A.) - supplementary summary M. Warner, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (excerpt) - MAGDA optional: Katherine Osterlund, “Love, Freedom and Governance: Same–Sex Marriage in Canada” (2009) 18 Soc. & Legal Stud. 93–109 (myCourses) optional: David L. Eng, “Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas” (2003) 76 Social Text 1 at 5–9 (myCourses) optional: “Les paradoxes du jugement de Lille” (myCourses)
 * Class 20 - 5 Nov.**

arts. 392–396 C.C.Q. s. 47 Quebec Charter ss. 29, 30 Ont. FLA Divorce Act, S.C. 1967–68, c. 24, s. 3 [repealed] Morrison c. Morrison (1972), 2 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 465 (P.E.I.S.C.) - Luke Horvath c. Fraess (1997), 36 R.F.L. (4th) 32 (extraits) - Luke Baron c. Bull (1987), 5 R.F.L. 427 (Alta. Q.B.) Droit de la famille—841, [1990] R.J.Q. 1571 (C.S.) P. (S.E.) c. P. (D.D. ) (2005), 50 B.C.L.R. (4th) 34, 2005 BCSC 1290
 * Class 21 - 10 Nov.**

ss. 8, 11, 21.1 Divorce Act arts. 493–515 C.C.Q. Michel Tétrault, Droit de la famille, 3d ed. (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2005) at 176–86 - Anja Sherene H. Razack, “The „Sharia Law Debate‟ in Ontario: The Modernity/Premodernity Distinction in Legal Efforts to Protect Women from Culture” (2007) 15 Fem. Legal Stud. 3 at 5–15, 27–29 (optional: read the rest) - Naomi Bruker v. Marcovitz, [2007] 3 S.C.R. 607, 2007 SCC 54 (headnote) - Anja optional: Droit de la famille–08491, 2008 QCCS 838 (myCourses) optional: Lorraine E. Weinrib, “Ontario‟s Sharia Law Debate: Law and Politics under the Charter” in Richard Moon, ed., Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008) 239 at 250–61 (myCourses)
 * Class 22 - Nov 12**

arts. 392, 427–429, 521.6, 521.17, 585 C.C.Q. ss. 30, 33(8), (9), (10) Ont. FLA ss. 15.2, 17(1)(7) Divorce Act Pelech c. Pelech, [1987] 1 R.C.S. 801 (headnote) - MAGDA Moge c. Moge, [1992] 3 R.C.S. 813 (headnote) - MAGDA Bracklow c. Bracklow, [1999] 1 R.C.S. 420 optional: Lucinda Ferguson, “Family, Social Inequalities, and the Persuasive Force of Interpersonal Obligation” (2008) 22 Int‟l J. L. Pol‟y & Fam. 61 (myCourses) optional: Leckey, “What Is Left of Pelech?” (myCourses)
 * Class 23 - Nov. 17**

Miglin c. Miglin, [2003] 1 S.C.R. 303 M.J. Trebilcock et R. Keshvani, “The Role of Private Ordering in Family Law: A Law and Economics Perspective” (1991) 41 U.T.L.J. 533 (excerpt) - LUKE optional: Leckey, “Contracting Claims and Family Law Feuds” (2007) 57 U.T.L.J. 1 (myCourses) optional: Wanda Wiegers & Michaela Keet, “Collaborative Family Law and Gender Inequalities: Balancing Risks and Opportunities” (2008) 46 Osgoode Hall L.J. 733 (myCourses)
 * Class 24 - Nov. 19**

Miron c. Trudel, [1995] 2 R.C.S. 418 (extraits) - Anja F. Allard et al., eds., Private Law Dictionary and Bilingual Lexicons, (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2003) s.v. “natural obligation” - Anja L.L. c. E.J., [2004] R.J.Q. 3062 (Sup. Ct.) - Anja John Haskey & Jane Lewis, “Living–apart–together in Britain: Context and Meaning” (2006) 2 Int‟l J. L. Context 37–48 - Naomi
 * Class 25 - Nov. 24**

Family Law Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. F.3, ss. 29, 30 M. c. H., [1999] 2 R.C.S. 3 (extraits) Brenda Cossman, “Family Feuds: Neo–Liberal and Neo–Conservative Visions of the Reprivatization Project” in Brenda Cossman & Judy Fudge, eds., Privatization, Law and the Challenge of Feminism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) 169 (excerpts) - MAGDA
 * Class 26 - Nov 26**

Nova Scotia (A.G.) v. Walsh, [2002] 4 S.C.R. 325, 2002 SCC 83 (headnote) Robert Leckey, “Cohabitation and Comparative Method” (2009) 72 Mod. L. Rev. 48 at 52–61; optional: read more Hodge v. Canada (Minister of Human Resources Development), [2004] 3 S.C.R. 357, 2004 SCC 65 (excerpt) - LUKE Law Commission of Canada, Beyond Conjugality: Recognizing and Supporting Close Personal Adult Relationships (excerpt) - LUKE optional review: Robert Leckey, “Families in the Eyes of the Law: Contemporary Challenges and the Grip of the Past” (2009) 15:8 IRPP Choices (myCourses)
 * Class 27 - Dec 1**