Civil court cases

2. - Family cases

Family cases are cases involving family law-related issues, including child protection, divorce, separation, custody and access, division of property, support, and adoption, among others. The methodology used to classify family cases is based on all issues that have been identified in a case, over the length of the case. The following hierarchy in the classification has been applied in order to group family cases by issue into mutually exclusive categories: (1) divorce, (2) child protection, (3) access and/or custody and support, (4) access and/or custody, (5) support.

2.2 - Divorce cases

Cases in civil court dealing with the legal dissolution of a legal marriage. A case is counted as a divorce case if divorce has been one of the issues reported for the case, over the length of the case.

2.2.1 - Divorce cases with no issue(s) identified

Divorce cases with no issues of access, custody or support identified.

2.2.2 - Divorce cases with issue(s) identified

Divorce cases with one or more issues of access, custody or support identified. The issue of support may include child support and/or spousal support and unspecified support.