- Best Interests of the Child in Ontario Family Law Proceedings
- Communication is key: Justice Chappel’s decisions on decision-making
- How to Get Your Child’s Wishes Heard in Ontario Family Custody Disputes
- Crafting persuasive parenting plans using the AFCC-O Guidelines
- The best interests of the child: Lessons in co-parenting and shielding children from conflict
- How to Calculate Shared Custody Percentage and Payments in Ontario
- Parenting plans and the holidays
- Travelling Outside of Canada with Your Child
- Moving To a Different Place After Divorce
- Relocating with children: the best interests of the child requirement and the burden of proof
- To move or not to move to Alberta – a summary judgment
- Private School vs. Public School: the court’s default position is clear
- Making Changes to Child Custody Agreement
- What is Parental Alienation?
- Navigating parental alienation in family law: guiding principles, evidence & remedies
- The role of therapeutic orders in cases of parental alienation
- Y.H.P. v. J.N.: A recent response to an extreme “campaign” of parental alienation
- How To Deal with a High Conflict Co-Parent
- Maintaining the status quo: legal principles when attempting to make changes on an interim basis
- Getting in, getting out: when is an order for supervised parenting time appropriate?
- Court-ordered alcohol monitoring during parenting time
- Bridging the distance: long-distance and remote parenting
- Varying a temporary parenting order? Very hard and very rare.
- Does a child’s resistance of parenting time absolve a parent’s obligation towards a parenting order?
- Looking to change your child’s name? You will need more than a temporary order for decision-making.
- Seeking an order disposing of the other party’s consent to travel? A “Hague Country” is not necessarily enough to dispel concerns
- Child Support in Ontario, Explained
- Extraordinary Expenses: What Are Section 7 Expenses In Ontario?
- A Closer Look Into Extraordinary Expenses
- Extraordinary Expenses Chart
- OFLM 2023-12 - Planning to claim a section 7 expense? Remember to review the principles
- Auer v. Auer: What the Supreme Court had to say in upholding the Federal Child Support Guidelines
- Mind the gap: Implications of the “gap year” on child support
- A “clean break”? Not so fast: lump sum payments for prospective child support
- Colucci v. Colucci – retroactively decreasing child support and recent decisions
- Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act: Setting aside and confirming foreign support orders
- Spousal Support in Ontario, Explained
- How to Deal with Spousal Support & Tax Consequences in Ontario
- Standing up to inflation by varying one outdated spousal support order or agreement at a time
- Long live rough justice: the wild west of interim spousal support motions
- Section 33(10) of the Family Law Act: when is spousal conduct relevant to support?
- Imputing income for underutilized assets: When should a spouse be required to exercise or sell stock options for support purposes?
- The path to independence: self-sufficiency in the modern world
- The Double-Dipping Dilemma: When Will Courts Permit Double- Dipping? An Examination of post-Boston Case Law
- Property Division in Ontario
- What is Matrimonial Home?
- Sale of a Matrimonial Home – the Partition Act versus the Family Law Act
- Calculating fairness: determining entitlement to occupation rent
- Surviving spouses and elections under the Family Law Act
- Interim Orders for Preservation: A Brief Reminder of the Law
- Applying the law of resulting trust to matrimonial homes
- Gift or loan: how your money is characterized matters
- Unequal property division for short marriages
- Are you seeking unequal division of NFP? Try shocking the court’s conscience!
- Criminal charges: Not always a decisive blow for exclusive possession of the matrimonial home
- The Importance of Financial Statements in Family Law Proceedings
- Top 5 Reasons to Provide Organized Disclosure to Your Lawyer
- When requesting financial disclosure, keep relevance and proportionality in mind
- Financial disclosure – seeking a balance between too much and too little
- To reduce conflict and tension in family law cases, don’t ask for irrelevant disclosure
- Notional disposition costs: what are they good for? Absolutely something.
- Qualifying expert witnesses and family law business valuations
- What’s mine is…. mine: Surreptitiously obtained documents in family law proceedings
- Mandatory Information Program (MIP), Explained
- The Case Conference Brief: Steps, Purpose, and Requirements
- Offers to settle: looking beyond subrule 18(14) of the Family Law Rules
- Considering vulnerable parties in family law matters
- Divorce lawyers hear their clients’ deepest traumas. They need therapeutic training.
- Gaslighting — its use as a sword and a shield in Canadian family law
- Imputing income in the face of alcohol addiction
- Mental health awareness is positive, but can create challenges for family law
- Caught on camera: discouraging surreptitious recordings
- “There are medical records, and then there are medical records”: Requesting disclosure relevant to a parent’s mental health
- Contempt and Consequences: When a court order is breached, is a contempt remedy the best option?
- Liar(s), liar(s), pants on fire – credibility revisited
- You get an expert! You get an expert! EVERYONE GETS AN EXPERT! (Thank you Oprah)
- “Leveling the playing field” with interim disbursements
- Security for costs – when, why and how much
- Costs, penalties, fines: What is the difference?
- When bringing a motion to enforce a purported settlement, don’t forget to check the jurisdiction
- The non-depletion order: A helpful tool to protect future payments
- Penalty hearings in contempt proceedings: A review of the applicable principles
- The costs of withdrawing a case
- Adjourning a trial: The “balancing act” in Angle v. Angle
- Striking the balance on striking a party’s pleadings for non-disclosure
- Words lawyers do not want to hear at an uncontested trial: “Why? On what evidence?”
- Patel v. Patel: The legal framework of setting aside orders made on consent
- Paws and Effect: How the courts determine ownership of the family pet