Matrimonial Affairs

Representing people in family law matters is a tricky business. Often our clients come to us in the midst of their worst life experience. For many, it is the first time they have had any experience with the legal system.

The Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, has, in his latest budget, announced the creation of a program designed to encourage Canadians to "rat out" known tax cheats by offering whistle blowers a reward of 15% percent of the money CRA would collect as a result of the snitch...

The flight of the allegedly abused spouse may prove to be the foil to the principles of international comity, as more specifically encompassed in the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Abduction ("the Convention").

Many people wonder, is it legal to force medical treatment on someone? People generally assume it is not. After all, would that not be a significant infringement of that person’s rights? And if it is legal, who gets to decide?

This is a revised version of a paper co-authored by Robin McDonald, Marvin Kurz and Charlotte Murray for use in the intensive child protection training program held in October 2010.

There can be little doubt that the introduction and acceptance of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines has had a dramatic impact on spousal support...

Interesting (or not) places to eat written by someone who really has no business telling you about restaurants near courthouses (or anywhere else, for that matter).

Here is some of what’s going on in or related to family law…

Whether you have an adequate retainer in trust, you get paid after each account, or you expect payment at the end of your case, the law grants clients the right to have a lawyer’s accounts assessed. The process has been made very simple for the lay person...

You have no independent authority to make decisions concerning your health. Those decisions are to be made by your husband. You have no right to access to a mobile phone, nor any internet access to third parties, except as authorized by your husband.