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The Henson Trust: A Clever Estate Planning Tool with a Heart

Planning the future of a loved one with a disability comes with unique challenges. Families wish to provide financial security, but direct inheritance...
Sep 2025
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What to expect in a Collaborative Separation

What to expect in the Collaborative Separation. Professional Team, made up of Lawyers, Financial professional and family professional. Client centre...
Sep 2025
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Imputing Income Part VI

Monetary Gifts as Income When a party receives regular gifts from their parents, the Court may impute the amount of those gifts as income for support purposes. Understanding h...
Sep 2025
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Look What You Made Me Sign

It's a Love Story, Baby, Just Say Yes...to my marriage contract Marriage contracts can be a helpful tool for spouses who want to agree on clear expectations for the terms of a potential separation in the future. Bu...
Aug 2025
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Imputing Income Part V

Diverting Income The Court can impute income to a payor who appears to be diverting income that would decrease their support obligation. The appearance of diverting in...
Jul 2025
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No Ring, No Rights? Common Law Spouses and Estate Claims

In today’s legal sphere, the concept of a “spouse” has expanded beyond the traditional marriage. More couples are cohabiting in marr...
Jul 2025
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Collaborative Divorce: Neutral Professionals

The benefits of the use of neutral professionals in the collaborative process.
Jul 2025
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Understanding Reunification Therapy

Healing Parent-Child Relationships After Separation This article provides an exploration of the benefits of reunification therapy for parents and children, explains when it is most appropriate, and prov...
Jul 2025
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Princess Consuela: or why no one ever gets away Scott-free when bad faith is involved

In Scott v Scott, the Ontario Superior Court awarded full indemnity costs to a wife after her ex-husband made unfounded and harmful claims that she ha...
Jul 2025
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Imputing Income Part IV

Unreasonably Deducting Expenses From Income A support payor should not assume that their "net income" as it appears on their Income Tax Returns will be considered their income for support purpos...
Jun 2025
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Understanding the Matrimonial Home and Its Equalization in Divorce

The article discusses the legal complexities of dividing the matrimonial home during divorce. The matrimonial home refers to the property where the co...
Apr 2025
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Imputing Income Part III

Failure to Provide Income Disclosure Part III of the "Imputing Income" series explores a support payor's financial disclosure obligations and the potential consequences for failing to pro...
Apr 2025
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Imputing Income Part II

Intentional Underemployment/Unemployment This is the second article in the Imputing Income series. The court may impute income to a parent or spouse when the parent or spouse is intentionally...
Apr 2025
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Imputing Income Part I

A General Overview Determining a payor's income for support purposes often starts with a review of the T1 Income Tax Return. However, in some cases, an assessment of a p...
Mar 2025
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Joint Decision-Making and Family Violence

How can family violence impact a claim for joint decision-making responsibility? Joint decision-making responsibility allocates decision-making regarding major decisions for the children to both parents. In 2021, the best interests...
Feb 2025
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Relocation:

Should We Stay or Should We Go? This article aims to clarify the relocation process and outlines considerations parents must take into account before taking steps to move with a chil...
Jan 2025
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Navigating the Intersection of Rights Arising under the Family Law Act and the Succession Law Reform Act

This article raises two critical issues that intersect with family law and wills and estates law and they are how the Succession Law Reform Act now tr...
Jan 2025
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Supreme Court of Canada to Rule on the Novel Family Law Tort of Family Violence

In 2022, Justice Renu Mandhane in Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2022 ONSC 1303, created the common law tort of family violence, however, on appeal, the Onta...
Jan 2025
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Navigating Grandparent Contact

This article examines the issue of grandparent/grandchild contact in Ontario. Grandparents have the right to apply for contact orders in Ontario court...
Jan 2025
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Bah humbug or “Who gets little Kelly for Christmas?”

During the holiday season, separated couples often face disagreements over which parent will spend time with their children. Many separation agreement...
Dec 2024
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Section 7 Expenses vs Child Support – what’s the difference?

A common misconception among family law clients is that any and all special expenses incurred by a child are included within the basic child support p...
Dec 2024
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Interim Variation of Final Support Orders

When a person is ordered to pay support under a final support order, and they fail to pay the support being enforced, arrears will accumulate and the ...
Oct 2024
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Collaborative Process: Marriage Contract

Using Collaborative Process to prepare a marriage contract that will be a strong and durable agreement
Oct 2024
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Top Five Tips for Creating an Effective Parenting Schedule

Separating can be an extremely stressful period of time.  This can be compounded when spouses start living separately and have to make timely dec...
Aug 2024
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