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* In ''[http://canlii.ca/t/gh679 R. (C.) v. (M.A.)]'', 2015 BCPC 76 the Court found that a father’s threats to use his stronger financial position to fight the mother “[until] she lives in a box” constituted family violence.
* In ''[http://canlii.ca/t/g7233 R. (L.A.) v. R. (E.J.)]'', 2014 BCSC 966, the Court found that disparaging remarks made to the children about their mother, as well as disparaging comments made to the mother in the children’s presence, constituted emotional abuse.
* ''[http://canlii.ca/t/glx9n F.(C.) v. V. (D)]'', 2015 BCPC 309, the Court found that there had been family violence as when the father broke the mother’s cellphone and smashed a picture on the wallwhile holding the child, then kicked a hole through the door to the bathroom where the mother was trying to escape from him in order to interrupt her efforts to call the bathroom doorpolice on the landline.
A lot depends on the specific facts of the case, however. The following are some examples of where the court determined that there was no family violence: