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| July 27, 2025
Clients have asked me this question thousands of times over the last 30 years. I recently completed two live trials where I observed my clients (more critically) as they were... Continue Reading...
| July 27, 2025
A separated parent’s obligation to pay for their adult child’s post-secondary education including tuition, residence, meals and transportation has been the subject of debate ever since the law changed in 1997 with the introduction of the Child Support... Continue Reading...
| July 27, 2025
1. The basics: The ‘Canada Child Benefit’, called the ‘CCB’ in this article, is a tax-free monthly payment to parents to help with the cost of raising children under 18 years of age and... Continue Reading...
| July 26, 2025
Under Ontario law, spouses who separate have a legal duty to make full, frank and complete financial disclosure. In fact, the laws and rules all create this mandatory obligation. Section... Continue Reading...
| July 26, 2025
Let’s start with the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, also called the SSAGs, which the federal government released in 2008. The SSAGs are used across Canada by judges, mediators and lawyers... Continue Reading...
| July 26, 2025
This question is more common than you think. If both parents earn $100,000 per year and the children live with one parent, then the other parent pays child support of... Continue Reading...
| July 25, 2025
For decades, divorce lawyers would hive off the RESP’s when calculating each spouse’s property for the purposes of ‘equalization of net family property’ in divorce. The understanding was that this... Continue Reading...
| July 25, 2025
Not according to this recent court case. In the case of Theriault v. Ford, 2022 ONSC 3619 (CanLII), the parents were married in 2013 and had two children (9 and... Continue Reading...
| July 25, 2025
Last week, we had a client threaten to commit suicide because of the stress of her divorce. We immediately convened a firm-wide consultation. At first, we didn’t know what to do,... Continue Reading...
| July 24, 2025
The school placement of a child of separated parents has become the subject of disagreement between parents and, in some cases, the objective of the litigation. Parents will argue that the... Continue Reading...