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 Mil ler for his co-operation in f acilitating th is

publication and arra nging for the in-house prepar ation of a comprehensive

case list. e authors much appreci ate the eorts of Ali sa Posesorski, Tina

Dealwis, A liza Aml ani, and Car men Siu, who discharged editor ial 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 t he con-

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

Google tells me th at I have written more than  b ooks 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 l ate parents, Kathleen Ma ry Payne and Frederick

Payne. For the rest of this piece, I shal l 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 su re whether they are stil l 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 w as in business with my

father, she was the initiator of ch ange. She had an uncanny abi lity to antici-

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

probably means only me, I always took pr ide in being the rst o the ma rk.

It didn’t always work out. In the mid-s, I submit ted an article entit led

“e Mediation of Fami ly Disputes” to the Canadi an Bar Review a nd to the

Irish Jurist . ey both declined to publi sh it. I suppose it had nothing to do

with law. How times have cha nged. Not to be defeated, I published the paper