Category: Family Law

The Eye of the Beholder: Professional Opinions about the Best Interests of a Child

Noel Semple

(2011) Family Court Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 760-775 (Peer-reviewed).

Full text online, SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1327485

This paper is is based on my LL.M thesis, which I successfully defended on June 10, 2009.  The Below, please find short and long versions of the thesis, as well as a 15 minute video presentation.

The Eye of the Beholder from Noel Semple on Vimeo.

Thesis (30k words)

Short Version (8500 words)

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In Sickness and in Health? Spousal Support and Unmarried Cohabitants.

Noel Semple

(2008) Canadian Journal of Family Law, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 317-375.

When an intimate relationship breaks down and one of the people involved seeks money from the other, should it make any difference to the law whether or not they were formally married? This article argues that it should make a difference, at least when spousal support is being sought and the parties were never parents together.

(Winner of the 2008 Falconer Memorial Student Essay Competition in Family Law.)

Found here: In Sickness and In Health?