Many family law clients ask if they should hire a private investigator to prove their spouses are cheating—probably because Canadians watch too many American legal TV shows.
If you talk to any Toronto divorce lawyer (or any family law lawyer [...read full post]
Categorized: Separation.
Almost everyone in Ontario has heard about Jian Ghomeshi’s recent $55 million law suit against the CBC. I’m not a labour and employment lawyer, but as soon as he filed the law suit, most of us who took even a [...read full post]
Categorized: Costs.
Even for a Toronto family lawyer, dealing with the court registry is often the hardest part of being involved in a family law dispute. This is because the Ontario Family Court Rules are convoluted and often confusing, and because the [...read full post]
Categorized: Family Law.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia just released a fascinating decision regarding the effect of alcoholism on a payor parent’s maintenance obligations. The case, B.F. v. J.F., 2014 BCSC 1892, dealt with the child support obligations of a man, B.F., [...read full post]
Categorized: Family Law.
Generally speaking, married couples in Ontario who separate must divide their property.
People who live in a “marriage like relationship” for more than three years, but who are not married, may think that just because they are “living common law”, [...read full post]
Categorized: Pensions, Property Division.