About the Authors

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About the Authors

Julien D. Payne, CM, KC, LLD, LSM, FRSC, is one of Canada’s pre-eminent family law spe-

cialists, and has been called the architect of Unied Family Courts and no-fault divorce. He

has taught family law at the universities of Alberta, Ottawa, Western Ontario, and Saskatch-

ewan, and has written very extensively about family law and family dispute resolution. He is

the author of Payne on Divorce, 4th ed (Carswell, 1996), and is the co-author with his wife,

Marilyn, of Canadian Family Law and its companion text, Child Support Guidelines in Can-

ada, 2024, both of which are published by Irwin Law. His writings have been cited more than

2,000 times by trial courts and appellate courts in Canada, including the Supreme Court of

Canada. He was awarded the Law Society Medal by the L aw Society of Upper Canada in 2002

and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004.

Marilyn A. Payne is an experienced author and the founding editor of the loose-leaf service

Payne’s Divorce and Family Law Digest, 1980–1999. She is the co-author of Canadian Family

Law and Child Support Guidelines in Canada, 2024 (Irwin Law).

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