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The Smart Divorce Episodes | Expert Advice on The Smart Divorce
This episode is now available on DVD. Please go to: https://www.createspace.com/327510 to order copies.
This is a one-on-one conversation with Debrah Moskovitch, author of THE SMART DIVORCE. Learn how to minimize conflict and enter into child-focused decision-making. Learn how to reinvent yourself from an ?ex-partner? to a ?co-parent?. And best of all, learn how to surround yourself with the people you need to maximize your opportunities for success in dealing with an ex-partner.Category: Episodes
By Nancy - December 2, 2011No CommentsMarriage Confidential Episodes | Marriage Requirements Videos
This episode is now availalbe on DVD. Please go to: https://www.createspace.com/327510 to order copies.
What is happening with marriage in North America today? Both as an institution and as an evolving construct for relationships and partnerships? In this episdoe, we explore all aspects of family and marriage. The guest is Pamela Haag, author of MARRIAGE CONFIDENTIAL: The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples who are Rewriting the Rules. Guest: Pamela HaagCategory: Episodes
By Nancy - November 30, 2011No CommentsParenting Coordinators Episodes | Family Laws | Parenting coordinators advice
This episode is now available on DVD. Please go to: https://www.createspace.com/327510 to order copies.
One of the most exciting new fields that has arisen in recent years is parenting coordination. A growing number of separated and divorced parents have opted to resolve their disputes privately, without going to court, by relying on the assistance and expertise of specially trained social workers and mental health professionals who serve as parenting coordinators. What are the pros and cons of using this form of alternative dispute resolution? How much does it cost? What kinds of parental disputes are best suited to parenting coordination? How do you find parenting coordinators in your community? Join Justice Brownstone and his expert guests for a lively and highly informative episode where all of these issues will be discussed, and much more. Guests: Shelagh Kinney, John-Paul BoydCategory: Episodes
By Nancy - November 28, 2011No CommentsLiteracy in the Courts
Frozen moment of judicial compassion
By Valerie Mutton
November 11 2011 issue Lawyers Weekly
Justice Harvey Brownstone presides at a suburban Toronto building in which 6,000 family court cases are open at any given moment. It is the busiest such setting in the country. But when he senses someone appearing before him has difficulty reading, he doesn’t mind taking a moment, slowing things down and carefully guiding the proceedings to make certain everyone grasps what’s going on. In a venue with no shortage of painful vignettes, these moments form poignant contrasts...
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By admin - November 8, 2011No CommentsWhy Families Matter - by Deborah Moskovitch
"Trailblazer” isn’t a term often associated with divorce professionals. With the divorce rate hovering around 50 per cent, and over a million children annually experiencing their parent’s divorce, it is critical that couples understand the impact of divorce on families, children, the individual and society.
What I find most astounding is that the divorce rate rises with subsequent marriages (http://www.more.ca/relationships/single-life/divorce-myths-debunked/a/30888) – this only demonstrates that people are not learning from their mistakes, and/or not taking the time to understand their own needs and expectations. Divorce education is imperative. It’s easy to see why divorce has spawned a lucrative industry. Continued...Category: Family Matters Blog
By Deborah Moskovitch - October 4, 2011No CommentsBest-selling book on issues facing family court system leads to online talk show
By the Honourable Justice Harvey P. Brownstone
We are all aware that the single most important area of law that touches more people's lives than any other is family law. This is because family breakdown has reached epidemic proportions in North America, due in part to the facility and speed with which the multiplicity of social networking websites on the internet have enabled people to embark upon and terminate relationships. In recent years, family courts across the continent have become clogged with an avalanche of unsuccessful short-term relationships – relationships that were just long enough to produce a child. There is every reason to assume that this trend will continue as more and more people choose to engage in intimate relationships with partners they barely know.
Despite the widespread incidence of relationship breakdown, most people I encounter in my courtroom are remarkably ignorant of even the most basic principles of family law. The fact that in most major centers in Canada, up to 70% of all family court litigants are self-represented, only makes the problem worse. And the fact that a great number of family court cases involve vulnerable children caught in the middle of high conflict parental disputes, makes the situation urgent for the parents and children involved...Read More
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By Family Matters - September 30, 2011No CommentsLaw Times: Inside Queen's Park: Ontario judge’s TV show has legs
Inside Queen's Park with Ian Harvey
Ian Harvey's Law Times interview with Justice Brownstone & Nancy Kinney:
Move over, Dr. Phil. Here comes the judge, as in Ontario Court Justice Harvey Brownstone.
The Toronto family court judge has added a new jurisdiction to his purview on Tuesday nights at 10:30 p.m. on CHCH TV in Hamilton, Ont., as well as the CHEK network...Read More
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By Family Matters - September 26, 2011No CommentsLawyers Weekly: Judge Brownstone goes prime time
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By Family Matters - September 26, 2011No CommentsFamily Court Justice Harvey Brownstone Reflects on Changes, Issues, and Trends on Divorce in the Last 15 Years
Our Interview with Justice Harvey Brownstone
DM: Justice Brownstone, from your perspective on the bench, what divorce issues have changed the most over the last 15 years?
JB: There are three things that have changed the most in the past 15 years. They are the Internet, the Internet, and the Internet! Judges have witnessed a complete revolution in both the composition and, unfortunately, the decomposition of relationships because of the Internet. And this has led to an avalanche of failed relationships that the court system must somehow deal with. And when I say avalanche I’m not exaggerating. It’s truly an avalanche. There’s no other way to describe it.
DM: How has the Internet helped create this avalanche?
JB: For starters, the problem today is that the Internet makes it so easy for people to meet and convince themselves that they’re madly, deeply in love. Of course most of them aren’t in love. They’re infatuated, excited, and swept up in the fantasy. They can pretend to be someone they aren’t, and they can just as easily be vulnerable to someone else’s deception...Read More
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By Family Matters - September 26, 2011No CommentsRoy Green Show
Justice Brownstone is on the Roy Green Show today at 1pm Vancouver time (Sept. 18). Listen in on your local radio station in Vancouver, Kamloops, Kelowna, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Hamilton and Toronto. Or listen in online:
http://www.roygreenshow.com/
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By Family Matters - September 18, 2011No Comments