In most cases, a person has the right to appeal a final order made by a judge in Ontario with respect to their family court decision. An appeal involves 3 judges from either the Divisional Court of the Court of Appeal for Ontario deciding whether the original judge made an error. Not all errors will […]
A “matrimonial home” has a specific definition in Ontario law. It is the house that a married couple lives in at the time of separation. In common law relationships, there is no legal “matrimonial home.” In such relationships, it is best to refer to the house using common parlance like the family home or one […]
Divorce lawyers in Toronto and throughout Ontario deal with the issue of spousal support regularly. Spousal support, or alimony as it is called in other places, is an amount of money that one spouse has to pay to another after the breakdown of a marriage or common law relationship. Spousal support can be compensatory, in […]
The federal and provincial governments have made legislation called the Child Support Guidelines to determine how child support is paid in Ontario. Unlike spousal support, in the vast majority of circumstances your expenses do not matter for the purpose of calculating child support. Rather, in general it is only a person’s income found at Line […]
As mentioned in a separate Resources Post, in Ontario, property is not divided, but rather a payment is made for the value of the difference between the net property each spouse accumulates during the marriage. This payment is called an equalization payment. While the court normally does not force one spouse to transfer property directly […]
In Ontario, property division is a bit of a misnomer, meaning it does not accurately describe how property issues are dealt with in Ontario. In Ontario, property is generally not physically divided. Rather, the spouse with more property pays the spouse with less property ½ the difference, so that each party’s net worth accumulated during […]
This is a very complex question. The law has developed in recent years to allow some claims related to property in some common law cases, especially under the concept of a “joint family venture”. However, this is one of the most unpredictable and underdeveloped areas of family law. There are a lot of factors that […]
If you are someone who normally has access to your child(ren) under the supervision of a Children’s Aid Society, you may have experienced frustration related to access: they have closed their centres, and supervised visits are canceled indefinitely. The question is: do you have to agree to this? What do the courts have to say […]
Many parents have questions about how to best co-parent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Often, both parents are concerned primarily with their children’s best interests, but can disagree about how those best interests are met. . Should children continue to adhere to the current access arrangement or should they stay where they are? Are the children […]
Any time parents of a child are not in a relationship, there is a responsibility for child support to ensure the child is taken care of financially. In the event one parent has a child greater than 60% of the time in that parent’s physical custody, the other parent normally has to pay the full […]
Call Us Here!
Etiam magna arcu, ullamcorper ut pulvinar et, ornare sit amet ligula. Aliquam vitae bibendum lorem. Cras id dui lectus. Pellentesque nec felis tristique urna lacinia sollicitudin ac ac ex. Maecenas mattis faucibus condimentum. Curabitur imperdiet felis at est posuere bibendum. Sed quis nulla tellus.
63739 street lorem ipsum City, Country
+12 (0) 345 678 9
info@company.com