When parents separate, it’s not uncommon for one of them to want or need to move. When there has been a history of intimate partner (IPV) or family violence (FV), the victim may need to move to keep herself and the children safe or to feel as though she can get on with building a new life for herself and the kids.

In this interactive webinar, we will explore:

• why moving with children can be a challenge in situations involving IPV/FV,
• what guidance the laws provide,
• the steps a parent who wants to move needs to take and the evidence they need to provide,
• how parental alienation allegations could arise; and
• unique issues in the Yukon.

If you or someone close to you is a victim or survivor of intimate partner or gender-based violence, you may find some of the content of this webinar challenging. We encourage you to put in place whatever supports you think you may need, including having someone with you, so you can engage in the webinar in a way that works for you, whether that is listening, or offering comments, or asking questions.

This interactive webinar will use an intersectional feminist analysis/framework, recognizing that, while men, trans and non-binary folx can be victims of IPV, the victims of the most serious forms of coercive controlling and physical abuse, including lethal violence, are people who identify as women. The instructor, Pamela Cross, is a feminist lawyer who has worked on the legal issues related to gender-based violence for nearly three decades.

See: pamelacross.ca