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You'll also want to disable any location-sharing options or services that may be available for your smartphone, smartwatch and car, or be built-in to your social media accounts. It's hard to remember in this electronic age just how many password-protected accounts and services we have, how many of the devices in our home are connected to the internet, and how many personal accounts our friends and family may have access to. You know how Facebook sometimes sends out reminders to check your privacy settings? You need to do that yourself when your relationship is coming to an end. Take a fresh look at ''everything''. | You'll also want to disable any location-sharing options or services that may be available for your smartphone, smartwatch and car, or be built-in to your social media accounts. It's hard to remember in this electronic age just how many password-protected accounts and services we have, how many of the devices in our home are connected to the internet, and how many personal accounts our friends and family may have access to. You know how Facebook sometimes sends out reminders to check your privacy settings? You need to do that yourself when your relationship is coming to an end. Take a fresh look at ''everything''. | ||
==The consequences of bad behaviour== | |||
I've already mentioned how the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' and the ''[[Divorce Act]]'' require the court to consider "the appropriateness of an arrangement that would require the child's guardians to cooperate" when making decisions about the parenting arrangements that are in the best interests of a child, and how many kinds of misbehaviour are offences under the ''[http://canlii.ca/t/7vf2 Criminal Code]''. There are other potential consequences as well. | |||
===Costs=== | |||
The Supreme Court has the ability to make "costs orders" under [https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/laws/regu/bc-reg-169-2009/latest/bc-reg-169-2009.html?autocompleteStr=supreme%20court%20family%20&autocompletePos=1#Part_16_Costs_521146 Rule 16-1]. An award of ''costs'' is a requirement that one side to a court proceeding pay to the other side a sum of money that compensates the other side for the time and money they had to put into the court proceeding. In general, the successful side is entitled to have their costs paid by the other side, and an award of ''ordinary costs'' usually works out to somewhere between a third and half of the money the successful side spent defending or prosecuting their case. An award of ''special costs'', however, is a lot closer to the total amount the successful side spent on their case. | |||
Special costs awards are made to punish a party for how they managed their case. When assessing special costs under Rule 16-1(2)(b), the court is required to consider "the conduct of any party that tended to shorten, or to unnecessarily lengthen, the duration of the family law case." | |||
===Misuse of court process=== | |||
===Damages=== | |||
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==Resources and links== | ==Resources and links== | ||
