The Provincial Court cannot hear any claims under the federal ''[[Divorce Act]]''. However, it also cannot hear claims for orders relating to the division of property and debt under the provincial ''Family Law Act''.
However, if ===Proceedings in the Supreme Court=== If the applicant has started a court proceeding against you in the Provincial Court, the Provincial Court is where you are. If you need to ask for orders under the ''Divorce Act'' or orders about the division of property and debt, you can start a separate court proceeding in the Supreme Court. My personal preference, and I think the preference of most family law lawyers, is to keep everything in the same court if that's at all possible. If you wind up starting a court proceeding in the Supreme Court, you or the applicant can apply for an order that the two proceedings be ''consolidated'', that they be combined into one court proceeding. Section 194.1 of the ''Family Law Act'' says this: <blockquote><tt>If a proceeding under this Act and a proceeding under this Act or another Act are started in the same court, the court, on application or on the court's own initiative, may consolidate the proceedings.</tt></blockquote> Since the Supreme Court can deal with all of the claims that the Provincial Court can, as well as a bunch that it can't, the consolidated proceeding will be be in the Supreme Court. sd
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