September 20, 2019

Pension Division Review Project Committee examines double-dipping, limited membership at September 2019 committee meeting

At its monthly committee meeting, BCLI’s Pension Division Review Project Committee looked at two topics that could lead to recommendations for additions to part 6 of the Family Law Act. The first topic concerned a possible extension to an existing rule providing for no further entitlement to a spouse’s pension benefits after Read more…

June 11, 2019

BC Court of Appeal remits matter of spouse’s entitlement to pension’s survivorship benefits back to trial judge

In a decision released last week, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia held that an earlier decision of the Supreme Court for British Columbia had failed to consider statutory and case authority in deciding not to reopen a family-law proceeding that had purported to establish separating spouses’ entitlement to Read more…