BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260605T032715EDT-4642WhXjgr@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260605T072715Z DESCRIPTION:This summer\, the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Com parative Law is once again presenting a series of Summer Seminars in which the whole 91ºÚÁÏÍø Law community is invited to take part. The main purpose of this seminar series is to offer a forum to younger scholars to present their ideas and to engage with those of others in an informal setting.\nCo okies and cold drinks will be served.\nSpeaker: Jodi Lazare\, 91ºÚÁÏÍø Unive rsity\nAbstract: This paper examines the opposing attitudes of the Quebec courts\, on the one hand\, and Canada’s common law courts\, on the other\, toward the use of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines\, a set of non- binding guidelines establishing ranges for amount and duration of spousal support awards. The Advisory Guidelines are meant to provide consistency a nd predictability in the determination of spousal support and to effective ly minimize the habitual discretion in family law.\nOutside of Quebec\, th e Advisory Guidelines have been a genuine success. Since their first relea se in 2005\, appellate courts throughout country have endorsed them as a u seful tool for ensuring economic fairness in the granting of spousal suppo rt. They have thus become the central tool in determining spousal support and a vital part of the practice of family law.\nQuebec’s approach to the Advisory Guidelines is markedly different. The Quebec Court of Appeal has gone from completely unreceptive to the Advisory Guidelines to open but ca utious\, while Quebec trial judges have questioned their legitimacy and de scribed them as conceptually defective.\nThis paper explores the divided r eception to the Advisory Guidelines. It examines the distinctive understan dings of the role and function of spousal support in Quebec and other prov inces and argues that Quebec’s approach is rooted in outdated social princ iples\, not reflected in the legislation or case law. It suggests that Que bec adopt a comparative approach to spousal support\, as it did relative t o the family law reforms of the 1980’s. Such an approach would better ensu re economic equality and fair outcomes for divorcing spouses.\n DTSTART:20150702T163000Z DTEND:20150702T173000Z LOCATION:NCDH 316\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:Jodi Lazare: Ensuring Economic Equality Across Provincial Borders URL:/law/channels/event/jodi-lazare-ensuring-economic- equality-across-provincial-borders-253025 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR