Acknowledgements

• Date: 25 July 2022

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Acknowledgements

As with previous editions, the research and word-processing costs of this

ninth edition of Canadian Family Law have been f‌inanced by Danreb Inc, a

private corporation that engages in legal research and publications and in

social policy and management consulting. e authors wish to acknowledge

their access to relevant judicial decisions with neutral citations through their

daily use of CanLII.

e authors thank Jef‌f Miller for his co-operation in facilitating this pub-

lication and arranging for the in-house preparation of a comprehensive case

list. e authors much appreciate the ef‌forts of Lesley Steeve, Gillian Buck-

ley, and others who discharged editorial responsibilities in their usual ef‌f‌i-

cient manner.

ere comes a time in an author’s life when he (for those who don’t know

me, I am male) should look back and acknowledge with gratitude the contri-

bution that others have made to the development of one’s career. First and

foremost, I want to thank my late parents, Kathleen Mary Payne and Fred-

erick Payne. For the rest of this piece, I shall avoid the word “late.” If the

people I mention continue to inf‌luence what I do, then it is unfair to refer to

them as late. In any event, I am not always sure whether some of them are still

on the tree of life. Some people have the same thoughts about me. I derive my

commitment and dedication from my mother. When my mother was in busi-

ness with my father, she was the initiator of change. She had an uncanny abil-

ity to anticipate changes in market forces. For those who have followed my

career, which probably means only me, I always took pride in being the f‌irst

of‌f the mark. It didn’t always work out. In the mid-1980s, I submied an arti-

cle entitled “e Mediation of Family Disputes” to the Canadian Bar Review

and to the Irish Jurist. ey both declined to publish it because it had nothing

to do with law. How times have changed. Not to be defeated, I published the