Because court processes are developed by the provinces and territories, the ''Divorce Act'', a federal law, is pretty quiet about those things. It's not the job of the federal government to tell the provincial and terroritorial territorial governments how to run their courts. However, the federal government does share jurisdiction over child support with the provinces, and section 7.4 of the ''Divorce Act'' imposes a duty on the people involved in a court proceeding to provide accurate information to each other and keep that information up to date:

Because court processes are developed by The ''Family Law Act'' is a provincial law, and accordingly says a lot more about the provinces discovery and territories, disclosure process. Section 5 imposes a duty on the people involved in family law dispute that's pretty similar to the duty imposed by section 7.4 of the ''Divorce Act'', except that this duty applies to ''everyone'' who is involved in a federal family lawdispute, not just people who are going to court about their family law dispute! This section says that: <blockquote><tt>(1) A party to a family law dispute must provide to the other party full and true information for the purposes of resolving a family law dispute.</tt></blockquote><blockquote><tt>(2) A person must not use information obtained under this section except as necessary to resolve a family law dispute.</tt></blockquote> The reason why subsection (2) is there is pretty quiet about those things.important,