Acknowledgements
Jurisdiction | Canada |
Author | |
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 submied 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
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