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→Some examples of family violence
* ''[http://canlii.ca/t/gh679 C.R. v. A.M.]'', 2015 BCPC 76: The father’s threats to use his stronger financial position to fight the mother “[until] she lives in a box” was family violence.
* ''[http://canlii.ca/t/g7233 L.A.R. v. E.J.R.]'', 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.F. ) v. D.V.(D)]'', 2015 BCPC 309: Family violence includes breaking the mother’s cellphone and smashing a picture on the wallwhile holding the child, then kicking a hole in through the door to the bathroom doorwhere the mother was trying to escape and call police.
* ''[https://canlii.ca/t/g1nl1 J.C.P. v. J.B.]'', 2013 BCPC 297: A deliberate failure to pay child support, where it was a “calculated and deliberate act designed to inflict psychological and emotional harm and to control [the other party’s] behaviour”, is family violence.