Articles 2022

Andrew Sudano recaps the findings of a recent survey among Canadian family lawyers and judges regarding the presumption of shared parenting and considers how it may affect the approach of counsel when resolving custody and access disputes.

Here’s what’s been going on in family law...

This is a decision of Justice Simmons of the Ontario Court of Appeal that considers the enforcement of orders dealing with s.7 expenses and insurance policies. Simmons J. dismisses the wife’s appeal and upholds the motion judge’s dismissal of the wife’s motions for a finding of contempt and enforcement of the Order.

Let’s polish up our profession and raise, not lower, our standards. Maybe, just maybe, we can learn from the example of some nine-year-old soccer kids.

Jeffery Wilson authors On Children and the Law, and is the Chief Editor of the Ontario Family Law REPORTER, both LexisNexis publications. He has contributed to a number of Issues of "Matrimonial Affairs". For this Issue, we asked him to borrow from his text and choose a topic of interest to our matrimonial law practitioners that is not directly about matrimonial law, but which may of interest to the matrimonial law practitioner. Here is his offering.

Find out what’s been going on in family law.