Acknowledgements

• Author: Julien D. Payne
• Pages: 17-19

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

e research and word processing costs of this edition of Child Support Guidelinesin

Canada have been f‌inanced by Danreb Inc, a private corporation that engages in legal

research and publications and in socia l policy and management consulting.

e authors thank Jef‌f Miller for his co-operation in f acilitating this publication and ar-

ranging for the in-house preparation of a comprehensive table of cases. e authors much

appreciate the ef‌forts of Lesley Steeve and Danna Petersen-Deeprose who discharged edi-

torial responsibilities in t heir usual ef‌f‌icient 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 contribution 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 Frederick Payne. For the rest of this piece, I sha ll 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 sti ll on the tree

of life. (Some people have the same thoughts about me.) As for my parents, my father was

the parent who not only washed me in the sink; he was t he parent who stressed the need for

an education and was instr umental in my choosing a legal career. I derive my commitment

and dedication from my mother. When my mother was in business with my father, she was

the initiator of change. She had an uncanny ability 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-s, I submitted an

article entitled “e Mediation of Fami ly Disputes” to the Canadian Bar Review and to the

Irish Jurist. ey both declined to publish it — I suppose it had nothing to do with law. How

times have changed. Not being receptive to such rejection, I published the paper in Pay ne’s

Divorce and Family Law Digest  at pages / (Richard De Boo Publishers). My

publishers had no choice, if they wanted to continue to use my services a s a digester of cases.

But looking back beyond that point to the beginni ng of my writing and law reform careers,

I owe it all to Tony Palmer, of Burroughs Company Limited, who asked me to write the

second edition of the then-bible in Canadian family law, namely, Power on Divorce. After