Acknowledgments

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

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Acknowledgments

e authors thank Je M iller for his co-operat ion in facilitating th is publica-

tion and arra nging for the in-house preparation of a comprehensive c ase list.

e authors much appreciate the eorts of A lisa Posesorski and Anita Lev in,

who discharged ed itorial responsibilities in their u sual 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 ac knowledge with grat itude the con-

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

Google tells me th at I have written more th an  books that it wi ll, 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 M ary Payne and Freder ick

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

mention continue to inuence what I do, then it is unf air to refer to them as

late. In any event, I am not always s ure whether they are sti ll on the tree of

life. Some people have the s ame thoughts about me. I derive my commitme nt

and dedication from my mother. When my mother was in business with my

father, she was the initiator of ch ange. She had an uncan ny ability to antic i-

pate changes in market forces. For those who have fol lowed my career, which

probably means only me, I alw ays took pride in being the rst o the m ark. It

didn’t always work out. In the mid-s, I subm itted an article entitled “ e

Mediation of Family Di sputes” to the Canadia n Bar Review and to the Irish

Jurist. ey both dec lined to publish it. I suppose it had noth ing to do with

law. How times have changed . Not to be defeated, I published the paper i n

Payne’s Divorce and Family Law Digest at pages – (Rich ard De Boo Pub-

lishers, ). My publishers had no choice if they w anted to continue to use

my services as a d igester of cases. But, looking back beyond that point to the

beginning of my w riting and law reform careers, I owe it al l to Tony Palmer,