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With funding from the Department of Justice, two family law professors developed guidelines in an effort to make spousal support more predictable and consistent. The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines suggest appropriate ranges of support in a variety of situations for spouses entitled to support. The guidelines do not provide advice on whether a spouse is entitled to support. In each case, entitlement to support depends on how the law applies to their situation.

This guide is for parents. It contains helpful information about parenting after separation and divorce. You can use this guide if you’re making a parenting arrangement under the Divorce Act. This guide may still be useful to you even if the Divorce Act doesn’t apply to your situation.

o Essential Mitigation
o Application Whitelisting
o Spear Phishing
o Taking Care of Your Secure Communications Device
o Using Portable Media
o Mobile Device Management

The infographic below shows the general process flow of a security clearance (SC) application. Additional steps in the review and decision process can happen for complex files.

The following documents summarize the work completed in the 2014 season, as well as planned work for 2015. This information was also shared at the public forum in Yellowknife, NT, on February 26, 2015: Decision of Environmental Assessment and next steps toward full remediation, Roaster Deconstruction Project, Underground Stabilization Project, Air Quality Monitoring.

It's important that the places we call home are healthy environments, for ourselves and our visitors. Risks to health can occur in any home through environmental factors from nature itself, products we use, the air we breathe, or sometimes from the food we eat, or the water we drink. This guide talks about common health risks and tips you can use to help ensure a healthy home environment.

This report summarizes the input received from partners who participated in the Department of Justice Canada’s initial engagement inviting First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners to discuss the modernization of the Privacy Act. These initial discussions took place from spring 2020 to spring 2021. This report also outlines next steps for further engagement with First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners on Privacy Act modernization. The purpose of sharing this report at this time is to let partners know what we have learned so far through this engagement process, to provide a common basis for continuing the conversation.

This document will give you some general information about why it is important to hear from children in family law matters, and help you understand the changes to the Divorce Act that make a child’s views and preferences. An important consideration in determining the best interests of the child.

This Fact Sheet provides general information about getting a divorce in Canada under the federal Divorce Act. This Act applies when at least one spouse has resided in a Canadian province or territory for at least one year before they apply for a divorce.

This Revised User’s Guide (which we sometimes call the “RUG”) updates and replaces the two previous versions: the original User’s Guide released in July 2008 with the Final Version of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG); and the New and Improved User’s Guide which we produced in March 2010. The previous versions of the User’s Guide have frequently been cited by the courts in their decisions, and by lawyers in their arguments about the Advisory Guidelines. This version provides us with an opportunity to update the past five years of SSAG case law, as well as to address some practical issues which have emerged since 2010. The SSAG have now been in use for more than ten years, starting with the Draft Proposal in January 2005 and then the Final Version of 2008.