Acknowledgments

• Author: Julien D. Payne - Marilyn A. Payne
• Pages: 19-21

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The research and word processing costs of this edition of Child Support Guidelines in Canada have been financed by Danreb Inc., a private corporation that engages in legal research and publications and in social policy and management consulting.

The authors thank Jeff Miller for his co-operation in facilitating this publication and arranging for the in-house preparation of a comprehensive case list. The authors much appreciate the efforts of Alisa Posesorski, who discharged editorial responsibilities in her usual efficient manner.

There 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 contribution that others have made to the development of his career. Since Google tells me that I have written more than forty books that it will preserve for posterity on the Internet, free of charge, this is my time. First and foremost, 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 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. My father was the parent who not only washed me in the sink; he was the parent who stressed the need for an education and was instrumental 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-1980s, I submitted an article entitled "The Mediation of Family Disputes" to the Canadian Bar Review and to the Irish Jurist. They both declined to publish it. I suppose it had nothing to do with law. How times have changed. Not to be defeated, I published the paper in Payne’s Divorce and Family Law Digest 1984 at page 1861 (Richard De Boo Publishers). My publishers had no choice; if they wanted to continue to use my services as a digester of cases. But looking back beyond that point to the beginning of my writing and law reform careers, I owe it all to Tony Palmer, of Burroughs Company Limited, who asked me to write

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