William Shatner recently finalized his divorce from his fourth wife, Elizabeth Martin. The “Star Trek” actor, 88, filed for divorce from Elizabeth, 61, after 18 years of marriage. He cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for filing in December 2019 […]
For those of us who practice family law, or who are involved in the family justice system in some way, there is a tendency to focus on the minutiae of the law and the specific cases we are involved in. […]
The Ontario Court of Appeal decision of Colucci v Colucci, 2019 ONCA 561 deals an application by a payor father to reduce his child support arrears which had accumulated to over $170,000.
In 1996, the payor father had […]
Custody Orders occasionally need to be modified; one party may want to increase their parenting time or reduce the other party’s parenting time. The Divorce Act, specifically, Section 17(5) sets out the following with respect to the variation […]
The Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, often referred to as the Hauge Convention, is a multilateral treaty established in 1980 with the purposes of securing the return of children wrongfully removed from their home […]
In Lee v Riley, 2002 CarswellOnt 5558, the Plaintiff alleged that the Defendant had “failed to advise her that he was involved with another woman”, whom he later married whilst carrying on an intimate relationship with the Plaintiff, within the […]
In 2012, a couple residing in New Jersey, Kristina and Drew Wasilewski, turned to in-vitro fertilization to assist in getting pregnant. The couple claims that they spent nearly $500,000 at an institute in New Jersey on the procedure, which was […]
It is estimated that in more than half of all family law matters, at least one party is self-represented. The most common reason for self-representing is affordability. Many simply cannot afford to retain a lawyer. However, there is another subset […]
The recent decision of SJK v JPG, written by the Honourable Justice S.B. Sherr, is a case where a parent is denied even supervised access to a child as a result of accusations of domestic violence. While it may […]
In the current era, surreptitious recordings are commonly encountered in family law matters. It is the case that spouses often believe they will be able to obtain some sort of litigation advantage by way of secretly recording their […]