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Family law is a kind of ''civil law''. "Civil law" refers to every kind of law other than criminal law. Other branches of the civil law include the law about contracts, the law about property, and the law about something called ''torts''. Tort law is the law that applies when someone does something, or doesn't do something, that causes harm to someone else. Tort law includes claims about a wide range of misbehaviour, such as negligence, defamation and invasion of privacy. Tort law also includes claims about things that are more directly relating to family violence, such as assault, battery, and infliction of emotional harm. Claims like these aren't covered by the ''Divorce Act'' or the ''Family Law Act''.
Tort claims for family violence can overlap with family law issues . They can be the subject of a law suit lawsuit on their own, or they can be combined STOPPED HERE but they arise independently from with a lawsuit brought under the ''Divorce Act'' or the ''Family Law Act'' and its treatment of . While the ''family violenceDivorce Act''. The or the ''Family Law Act'' has its own specific definition of do talk about family violence that:* includes non-physical forms forms , in the context of abusechildren's parenting arrangements, such as emotional or financial abuse* emphasizes its impact when it comes to making decisions about children* offers specific mechanisms like protection orders (discussed in the section on [[Family Violence in the Family Law Act and the Divorce Act]] in this chapter) This saidconduct orders, the ''Family Law Act'' doesn't usually give direct neither act provides financial compensation for the effects family violence. By contrast, a That is what tort claim aims claims aim to compensate a victim with direct financial compensation for the wrongful acts of another persondo.
==Introduction to ''tort law'' claims==