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16 Can. J. Fam. L. 163 (1999)
A Report from Canada's Gender War Zone: Reforming the Child-Related Provisions of the Divorce Act

handle is hein.journals/cajfl16 and id is 165 raw text is: A REPORT FROM CANADA'S 'GENDER WAR ZONE': REFORMING THE CHILD- RELATED PROVISIONS OF THE DIVORCE ACT Nicholas Bala* In the early 1990's Canada began a law reform process to adopt child support guidelines. Major proponents for the guidelines were women's groups, supported by governments that hoped to get more child support paid, and thereby reduce child poverty and government welfare expenditures. In 1997, at the same time as the federal government introduced the Child Support Guidelines, it ended the regime of tax deductibility of child support and taxation in the hands of recipients. The change in the tax laws increases the burden of child support on payors as well as increases government revenues. Fathers' groups attacked the Guidelines, which primarily use the payor's income to determine child support, and argue that the family law system is biased against them. To assuage the critics of the Guidelines and gain the support for their adoption from * Nicholas Bala, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University. This is a revised version of a paper presented at the International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 12, 1999, and at Education Programs of the Office of the Children's Lawyer of Ontario, June 1999. The author wishes to acknowledge the support of a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the preparation of this paper, and the editorial assistance of Mandy Aylen, Queen's Law '00.

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