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As family lawyers, we have all experienced the frantic calls or emails from clients at the beginning of March, or mid-December, because they want to travel with their children and the other parent will not co-operate in renewing the long-expired passports

Mediation requires a different form of advocacy than does litigation. In litigation, your objective is to convince the judge as to the validity of your client’s case based on the facts and the law.

Each year, the Family Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association presents the Award for Excellence in Family Law, in memory of James G. McLeod. Recipients of this award are individuals who have made exceptional contributions and achievements to the practice of Family Law.

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

Georgina Carson, Family lawyer at MacDonald & Partners LLP and Mexican food fan

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.