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Read MoreAn Ontario judge recently ordered that a father pay almost $25,000 for failing to disclose relevant financial information in a child support dispute within a reasonable period of time. What Happened? The former couple met in 1981 when they were both 19 years old, and were in a common-law relationship for approximately four years, resulting …
Read MoreGuilty by Way of Default Judgment Social media continues to provide challenges across many areas of Canada’s judicial system. One particularly troubling reality of our modern digital age is “revenge porn,” in which people release nude images or videos of former sexual partners. On January 21, 2016, Justice Stinson of the Ontario Superior Court …
Read MoreIn an earlier blog post, I made reference to a November 2016 decision of the Honourable Mr. Justice Pazaratz and his denunciation of the parties’ practice of videoing each other with the child. In re-reading the Reasons in the Whidden and Ellwood case, I discovered commentary by Justice Pazaratz on a wealth of other relevant …
Read MoreJustice Grace of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice set a somber tone in his opening comments in Spero v. Dean: “Sadly, once married parties are no longer joined in heart, body or soul but as antagonistic parties in an ocean of family and civil litigation. This will form a small part of one chapter of the …
Read MoreWhether you’re the recipient or payor of child support, you may be wondering how child support orders are enforced in Ontario. Non-payment of a child support order in Ontario is dealt with by the Family Responsibility Office – FRO. [The FRO] collects, distributes and enforces child and spousal support payments. [It] work[s] to flow payments …
Read MoreThe Ontario Court of Appeal recently ruled that a Will was valid even though the testator disinherited one of his daughters for what appeared to be racially motivated reasons. In Spence v. BMO Trust Company, the testator, Mr. Spence, had two children, Verolin and Donna. After their parents separated, Verolin lived with her father and Donna …
Read MoreFollowing a case conference, parties to a family law proceeding (Michelon v. Ryder) reached a comprehensive agreement on a final order. The Court noted that the agreement was an excellent result for all involved. However, the Court questioned its jurisdiction to include a term in the order requiring the parties to submit to secondary arbitration. …
Read MoreOn January 22, 2016, the Ontario Court of Justice found a Toronto man, Gregory Alan Elliott, not guilty of criminal harassment. The Court’s decision in R. v. Elliott, 2016 ONCJ 35 is notable for family law practitioners as the first criminal harassment case in Canada involving Twitter. The events leading up to R. v. Elliott …
Read MoreCanadian Family Court for the Public In Canada, we have an open court system. That is probably obvious from the daily bombardment of information coming out of two sensational Ontario court cases presently under way: the Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial and the trial of Tim Bosma’s alleged killers. People might know that criminal proceedings …
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