In Family Law, parenting arrangements whereby both parties have a child in his and her respective care for at least 40% of the time are identified as shared parenting arrangements for child support purposes, and otherwise.
However, a 2019 decision by […]
With the new changes to Alberta’s Family Law Act it is important to consider any impact those changes have on our Maintenance Enforcement Program (MEP), the agency that deals with collection and enforcement of court-ordered child support, spousal and partner […]
Big changes are coming to family law legislation in Canada. In April and May, we discussed the changes being introduced by Bill 28, the Family Statutes Amendment Act in Alberta.
Now, Bill C78, an Act to Amend the Divorce Act, […]
A family member of a deceased person may apply for maintenance and support from the deceased person’s estate pursuant to Part 5 of the Wills and Succession Act, SA 2010, c W-12.2.
For the purpose of making an application […]
Common sense dictates that every individual should be able to dispose of their property upon death how they see fit. However, the law in this area is not quite this simple.
While the law generally allows a person to choose […]
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In Corlett […]
A Federal Judge in New York recently ruled that the parents of a 21-year-old, who was fatally injured in a skiing accident earlier this year, could use their deceased son’s frozen sperm to attempt to produce a child. The […]
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench Family Law Practice Note 2 sets out the requirements for filing an Application to be heard in Family Law Regular Chambers. Except in cases of urgency, the Court will not hear Applications for […]
A summary trial is a condensed form of trial that proceeds on the basis of affidavits and any other evidence allowed by the Alberta Rules of Court relating to summary trials. Generally speaking, a family law summary trial […]
It is a common misconception that surrogacy is illegal in Canada. It is not.
According to a study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada in 2017, 1100 babies were born to gestational surrogates in Canada between 2001 […]