Source: https://www.leg.bc.ca/content/legacy/web/36th2nd/1st_read/gov31-1.htm
Timestamp: 2018-01-23 21:48:14
Document Index: 511680798

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 7', 'art 6', 'art 6', 'art 6', 'art 6', 'art 6', 'art 7', 'arts 5']

SECTION 1: [Family Relations Act, amends section 1] adds the definition of "child support guidelines" for use principally in Part 7 of the Act and amends the definitions of "spouse" and "parent" to more clearly include same gender relationships.
SECTION 2: [Family Relations Act, repeals and replaces section 3 (5)] provides that information disclosed to a family court counsellor may be provided to a valid research project in a form that does not personally identify persons referred to in the information.
SECTION 3: [Family Relations Act, adds section 9 (3)] provides that in making an interim maintenance order for children the court will adhere to the child support guidelines but do so only to the extent that is practicable given the immediate need of the children for maintenance and possible deficiencies in the records and other verifiable information available to the court for purposes of applying the guidelines.
SECTION 4: [Family Relations Act, adds section 10 (4)] ensures that the child maintenance provisions in an order made by a court by consent of the parties to the proceedings are made in a manner consistent with the requirements of section 93.1 of the Act.
SECTION 5: [Family Relations Act, amends section 39] ensures that an enforcement officer under the Act will be able to seek information respecting the place of employment of the proposed respondent in a child custody proceeding and that any available information sought under section 39 of the Act will be provided to an enforcement officer within 10 days.
SECTION 6: [Family Relations Act, repeals and replaces section 41 (3)] provides that information disclosed under section 39 or 40 of the Act may be provided to a valid research project in a form that does not personally identify persons referred to in the information.
SECTION 7: [Family Relations Act, amends section 70] clarifies the meaning of a number of terms used in Part 6 of the Act.
SECTION 8: [Family Relations Act, amends section 71 (3)] confirms that an order or agreement that is silent about pension division will not trigger the operation of Part 6.
SECTION 9: [Family Relations Act, repeals and replaces section 74 (a)] confirms that a limited member of a local plan is also entitled to receive a share of the pension if the member terminates employment before retiring.
SECTION 10: [Family Relations Act, repeals and replaces section 75 (2)] repeals the portion of section 75 (2) of the Act which this Bill re-enacts as part of section 75.1 of the Act. The amendments made by this section also allows a spouse and the plan administrator greater flexibility in dealing with the spouse's share of a pension in a hybrid plan.
SECTION 11: [Family Relations Act, enacts section 75.1] re-enacts part of section 75 (2) of the Act as section 75.1 (1) and enacts section 75.1 (2) which extends to court orders the rule that a member must ordinarily be left with 50% of the pension.
SECTION 12: [Family Relations Act, repeals and replaces section 76 (2)] ensures that a spouse who is a designated beneficiary of a postretirement survivor benefit will receive the entire benefit unless another spouse is entitled to receive a proportionate share of it.
SECTION 13: [Family Relations Act, repeals and replaces section 78 (1)] confirms the rules that apply for sharing a preretirement survivor benefit among 2 or more former spouses of the deceased.
SECTION 14: [Family Relations Act, amends section 79] ensures that a plan administrator may require a limited member to accept a transfer of the commuted value of benefits in both situations in which the administrator may require a member to do so.
SECTION 15: [Family Relations Act, amends section 80] amends the threshold under section 80 (1) (a) of the Act which applies to a written agreement between a member and spouse for pension sharing. The agreement must leave the member with at least half the value the pension would have had or half the periodic benefits that would have been paid if the agreement had not been made. Section 80 (2) of the Act is amended to confirm that a spouse and member with an order or agreement made before July 1, 1995 can opt in to Part 6 of the Act. The new section 80 (2.1) and (2.2) set out general rules for applying Part 6 of the Act to an order or agreement made before Part 6 was enacted.
SECTION 16: [Family Relations Act, amends section 87] makes the definition of "child" for the purposes of Part 7 of the Act consistent with the corresponding definition in the Divorce Act (Canada).
SECTION 17: [Family Relations Act, repeals and replaces section 88 (1)] simplifies section 88 (1) of the Act so that the general obligation of all parents to support their children is not open to confusion with the criteria under child support guidelines applicable if a child maintenance order is to be made.
SECTION 18: [Family Relations Act, re-enacts section 93 and enacts sections 93.1 and 93.2] rewrites section 93 of the Act to better reflect the fact that different criteria are applicable in the making of child maintenance orders and maintenance orders for spouses or dependent parents. The new sections 93.1 and 93.2 preserve flexibility in the making of child maintenance orders by consent provided the interests of the children are protected and make adequate provision for child support a priority in the making of a package of maintenance orders covering adults as well as children.
SECTION 19: [Family Relations Act, amends section 96] rewrites section 96 of the Act in an analogous way to the rewriting of section 93 of the Act by this Bill.
SECTION 20: [Family Relations Act, amends section 99] entitles an enforcement officer to receive information in a timely fashion, including information about the assets or income of a person against whom a maintenance order may be sought.
SECTION 21: [Family Relations Act, amends section 100] allows the court to require a person having information about the assets or income of a proposed respondent in a maintenance proceeding to disclose that information to the applicant in that proceeding. The amendment to section 100 (6) of the Act provides that information disclosed under section 100 of the Act may be provided to a valid research project in a form that does not personally identify persons referred to in the information.
SECTION 22: [Family Relations Act, enacts section 120.1] allows persons described by paragraph (b) of the definition of "spouse" in section 1 of the Act as amended by section 1 (c) of this Bill to opt into the application of Parts 5 and 6 of the Act by making the equivalent of a marriage or separation agreement.
SECTION 23: [Family Relations Act, amends section 121 (1)] restates definitions of "child" and "spouse" in a manner that is consistent with the use of those terms elsewhere in the Act.
SECTION 24: [Family Relations Act, re-enacts section 129] adds the capacity to make regulations to establish child support guidelines to be followed in making and varying court orders, and consent orders or agreements that may be filed and enforced as court orders, for child maintenance.