When conflict escalates to a perilous point, a judge can step in to remove, or at least distance, the source of conflict, so that you can feel safe to move forward with your life.
if you have a written separation agreement which you wish to have enforced, varied, or set aside in whole or in part, and there is no existing action in your family matter, you may be able to start an action simply by filing a copy of the agreement.
In complicated family law cases a judge may decide to seize themselves of the file, so the parties don't have to repeat their story to a new judge each time they go to court. While a good idea in principle, sometimes that doesn't work in practice.
In a rare decision, the Supreme Court of Canada comments on child support issues and whether a parent can seek retroactive support even when the child is grown and supporting himself
A hard-working spouse who has finally decided to give up on the marriage may be stuck with an indefinite bill to pay spousal support.
Calculating child support should be easy. Take a spouse’s income, the number of children, and the Federal Child Support Guidelines produce a number. But when a spouse earns income through a company he or she controls, things get complicated.
A father asked a court to let his 17-year-old daughter testify about her mother's bad behaviour in an attempt to lessen the amount of spousal support he had to pay.
Judges frequently penalize litigants who fail to fully disclose their financial situation. Equally vexing is when a party demands unreasonable disclosure from his or ex, known as a "fishing expedition." One court decided the demands had gone too far.
While any aspect of litigation can be both emotionally exhausting and expensive, there are reasons why it may still be worth considering.
Some of the top judges in Canada are beginning to speak out about a problem that many family law clients have been concerned about for years: access to legal services.
Earlier this week, we read an interesting piece in the Toronto Sun covering a recent family law court ruling out of Hamilton, Ontario. In the words of the article's author, the judge's decision was "an astounding plea for sanity",...
