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===The ''Divorce Act'' and the Child Support Guidelines===
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 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:
<blockquote><tt>A party to a proceeding under this Act or a person who is subject to an order made under this Act shall provide complete, accurate and up-to-date information if required to do so under this Act</tt></blockquote>
===The ''Family Law Act''===
The ''[[Family Law Act]]'' is a provincial law, and accordingly says a lot more about the discovery and disclosure process. Section 5 of the ''Family Law Act'' 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 family law dispute, 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><blockquote><tt>(e) make any other order the court considers appropriate.</tt></blockquote></blockquote>
Finally, the [[Child Support Guidelines ]] are adopted for the purposes of the ''Family Law Act'' by section 8 of the [http://canlii.ca/t/8rdx Family Law Act Regulation]. That includes the financial information that must be produced under section 21 of the Guidelines, discussed above, as well as the penalties for not providing this information under sections 22, 23 and 24.
==The Provincial Court==