D Block Law - Today we'll continue looking at family law, focusing on support obligations. For more on Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines and entitlement check out the website here. When it comes to spousal support, the existing legal framework recognizes three bases for entitlement: compensatory, non-compensatory, or contractual.
- Compensatory claims are based either on the recipient’s economic loss or disadvantage as a result of the roles adopted during the marriage or on the recipient’s conferral of an economic benefit on the payor without adequate compensation.
- Non-compensatory claims involve claims based on need. “Need” can mean an inability to meet basic needs, but it has also generally been interpreted to cover a significant decline in standard of living from the marital standard. Non-compensatory support reflects the economic interdependency that develops as a result of a shared life, including significant elements of reliance and expectation, summed up in the phrase “merger over time”.
- Contractual claims covers not only formal domestic contracts but also implied or informal agreements.
Also important is the concept of self-sufficiency
s. 15.2(6)(d) of the Divorce Act, “in so far as practicable, promote the economic self-sufficiency of each spouse within a reasonable period of time.” Once the recipient has become “self-sufficient”, then spousal support can be terminated
For Child Support in Canada check out About Child Support in Canada or see the schedule of tables used to calculate support in British Columbia here.
From the Department of Justice:
The guiding principle of Canada’s child support law is that children should continue to benefit from the financial means of both parents just as they would if the parents were still together. Therefore, if you are divorced or separated from the other parent, you are both responsible for supporting your children financially. The Federal Child Support Guidelines (Federal Guidelines) are regulations made under the Divorce Act. They set out some rules and tables to show how much child support parents should pay when they divorce. The child support amounts in the tables reflect what parents living in the same province, with the same incomes and the same number of children would spend on their children.
A really good resource is the Families Change Guide to Separation & Divorce (BC)
C Block Criminology - Yesterday we watched part 2 of the 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery so today we'll finish part 3...because you asked and because that proves my point about schadenfreude and media frenzies/circuses.
Remember you have a question to answer for me:
How does the concept of Schadenfreude apply to the Casey Anthony trial? How would low self-esteem make someone more likely to seek out schadenfreude-filled crime media?
HLN's Nancy Grace covered the Casey Anthony trial heavily in 2011. To her credit Nancy Grace was a criminal prosecutor in Georgia. Here is a CNN bio on her..
B Block Human Geography - Test day...weeks 13 (states and borders); 14 & 15 (agriculture and food); and 16 (services). And remember...
A Block Physical Geography - To start the class, we will discuss Jared Diamond's book Collapse, trying to make sense of how civilizations in the past collapsed (Maya & Rapa Nui) and extrapolating his findings to our modern society today. We'll look at the twelve major modern environmental problems that Diamond identifies and examine his conclusions about our potential future. Remember to ask me about bunnies and Australia, specifically the 24 bunnies that the British brought with them in 1859 and how much the Australian government spends annually to control them. See Diamond talk at TED here. After, if there's time, we'll watch the National Geographic special Collapse.
From Nat Geo...
Imagine if hundreds of years from now, scientists excavated the abandoned ruins of some of our largest cities, what conclusions would they come to? It happened to the Romans, the Anasazi, and the Mayans and, inevitably, one day our own modern civilisation will also fall. In this two hour special discover how a future civilisation might be baffled as to why the population of these once-great cities would suddenly abandon their technology and architecture, and turn their homes into ghost towns. Some experts believe that there is a very real risk this could happen, and the collapse of the world as we know it is closer than we think. Examining the parallels between cultures separated by hundreds of years, explore whether the key to preventing such a global collapse today could lie in finding renewable alternatives to our dwindling energy supplies and sustainable resources. Can we learn from the mistakes of the past before it's too late?
Remember it's too late to be a pessimist.
Business Insider asks: Is the Anthropocene real? That is, the vigorously debated concept of a new geological epoch driven by humans. Our environmental impact is indeed profound — there is little debate about that — but is it significant on a geological timescale, measured over millions of years? And will humans leave a distinctive mark upon the layers of rocks that geologists of 100,000,000AD might use to investigate the present day?
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