When you are busy building a business, planning and preparing for the unexpected may be the last task on your long to-do list.  It is a task that is easy to push into the future when there are [...]

Nowadays, it is common for family lawyers to meet with people who have prepared their own separation agreement and signed it, or plan to sign it. In an age of online templates, kits, and Google, [...]

Making the decision to go through a separation with your spouse is not an easy one. Besides the emotional toll, there are also logistics that you need to figure out to divide your assets and [...]

Married spouses are each entitled to possession of the matrimonial home, even if only one spouse is the owner.  Following a separation, living in the same house can be difficult and stressful.  [...]

The Family Responsibility Office (“FRO”) is a government agency that enforces child support and spousal support payments. FRO collects support from the support payor directly or from the payor’s [...]

Spousal support is a sensitive topic for many people going through a separation. Many payors are surprised by how much support they might be required to pay a spouse or former spouse, and even [...]

If you have young children at the time of separation, the idea of a Court Order being “Final” is something of a misnomer, specifically as it relates to parenting.  As children develop and their [...]

Many people believe child support ends when a child turns 18. To many people’s surprise, this is often not the case. Legislation states that child support may be payable for an adult child where [...]

In Ontario, the Office of the Children’s Lawyer (OCL) can become involved in custody and access disputes and make recommendations to the court about what arrangements would be in the best [...]

A quick Google search of the words “January” and “divorce” will lead you to several articles about the spike in separations and divorces in the month of January. Whether or not January is [...]