Acknowledgements

• Author: Julien D. Payne, Marilyn A. Payne
• Pages: 27-29

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Acknowledgements

e research and word processing costs of t his edition of Canadian Family Law

have been nanced by Da nreb Inc, a private corporation that engages i n legal

research and publications a nd in social policy and man agement consulting.

e authors thank Je Miller for his co-operation in facilitating this

publication and arranging for the in-house preparation of a comprehensive

case list. e authors much appreciate the eorts of Alisa Posesorski, Tina

Dealwis, Aliza Amlani, and Carmen Siu, who discharged editorial respon-

sibilities in thei r usual ecient manner.

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

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

tribution that others have made to the development of one’s career. Since

Google tells me that I have written more than  books that it will, free of

charge, preserve for poster ity on the Internet, this is my ti me. First and fore-

most, I want to thank my late parents, Kathleen Mary Payne and Frederick

Payne. For the rest of this piece, I shall avoid the word late. If the people I

mention continue to inuence what I do, then it is unfa ir to refer to them as

late. In any event, I am not always sure whether they are still on the tree of

life. Some people have the same t houghts about me. 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 antici-

pate changes in mark et forces. For those who have followed my career, which

probably means only me, I always took pride in being the rst o the mark.

It didn’t always work out. In the mid-s, I submitted an article entitled

“e Mediation of Family 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 cha nged. Not to be defeated, I published the paper