“The desk at her Century City office is free of clutter and empty of anything...
Entertainment Tonight on “Hollywood’s Top Divorce Lawyer,” Laura Wasser.
View ArticleWho gets the RRSPs?
The Globe and Mail on division of Registered Retirement Savings Plans following the breakdown of a marriage: While family law across Canada calls for a 50-50 split of matrimonial property, couples...
View Article“17 Common Mistakes To Avoid In Divorce Proceedings”
From family lawyer Sherry Donovan in the Huffington Post. I agree with all of them, and I’d add an 18th: concentrate on what’s best for the children and yourself, not what might punish your ex. I’ve...
View ArticleMom of the year
A New York court has ordered a woman to stop posting anything online about her children: There’s not much to “like” about this woman’s Facebook habits. A mean upstate mom who cyber-bullied her...
View ArticleCrime doesn’t pay. Criminals do.
So your income went down after you were convicted of a criminal offence, and now you can’t pay child support? Too bad: When it comes to paying child support, courts won’t sympathize with parents who...
View ArticleUnrecommended legal strategies (I)
It’s bad enough when clients wear old jeans and hoodies to court. This is just a little bit worse: Heath Campbell is the leader of a pro-Nazi group called Hitler’s Order. He lives in New Jersey, and...
View ArticleThe divorced parent’s worst nightmare
A Toronto woman had sole custody of her two children, but she allowed her ex-husband to use them in a trip to Europe. A few weeks later, she received a phone call from them – from Afghanistan: Zaiba...
View ArticleThe end of “custody” and “access”
A survey of Canadian family lawyers shows most opposed to a presumption that children should spend close to equal time with their divorced or separated parents, but overwhelming support for changing...
View ArticleHis condition was updated to “alive”
1990: man mysteriously disappears without a trace. 2000: his grieving wife reluctantly has him declared legally dead, and begins collecting his pension. 2010: man reappears, claiming he had amnesia....
View ArticleThe child support clawback
In several Canadian provinces (including Nova Scotia) child support payments are deducted from social assistance. A group of single mothers in British Columbia has launched a court challenge against...
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