The Voice of the Child in Family Law: Exploring Strategies, Challenges, and Best Practices for Canada – Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Executive Summary
• Chapter 1: Introduction and Objectives of the Project
• Chapter 2: A Brief History of Children’s Voices in Canada
• Chapter 3: Brief Review of Children’s Experiences of Providing Voice
  • Children’s Input into Parenting Plans
  • Reasons why Children want their Voices Heard
  • Children’s Capacity in Decision-Making
  • Effects of Children’s Participation
  • Children’s Advice
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Methods for Including Children’s Voices in Family Law Matters
  • Non-Court Child Inclusive Methods
    • Children Talking with Parents
    • Children Sharing their Views with Professionals
    • Child-Inclusive Mediation
  • Court Based Child-Inclusive Methods
    • Child-Inclusive Conferencing
    • Appointment of Children’s Lawyer
    • Children Interviews of Children within Parenting Plan Assessments
    • Voice of the Child Reports
    • Child-Inclusive Collaborative Law
    • Judicial interviews with children
    • Children’s testimony in court (children as witnesses)
  • Post-Court Order for Opportunities to Hear Children’s Voices
    • Child-Inclusive Parenting Coordination
    • Children’s Voices in Supervised Access Services
  • Summary of Methods
• Chapter 5: Prevalence of child-inclusive methods in family law
• Chapter 6: Decisions for including child-inclusive methods
  • Figure 1: Decision tree for choosing method for child inclusion
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Discussion and Implications
  • Enhancing a Child-Centric Family Justice System
  • Practice considerations
  • Considerations for Parents Hearing Children’s Voices
  • Future Research
• Appendix A – Methodology

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