Ms. Beaver applied to court for custody of the child of her relationship with Mr. Hill and for spousal and child support. They are both Haudenosaunee from the Six Nations. Mr. Hill challenged the jurisdiction of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the applicability of relevant provincial family law legislation, claiming that he had an Aboriginal and treaty right to have the matter resolved through Haudenosaunee governance processes and law. The Ontario Court of Appeal held that the Superior Court has jurisdiction to try the matter, but noted that the claim that Haudenosaunee procedure and law displaced the provincial legislation raised an important constitutional issue that would need to be addressed at trial. The Court of Appeal also decided that Mr. Hill had standing to raise the constitutional issue. There is no final decision in the case, as it has been bogged down in what one appeal judge described as "a procedural morass".