By Douglas J. Manning, Partner, Certified Specialist in Family Law
A recent decision from Spain regarding medical malpractice turned out to have unanticipated family law consequences! A gynecologist was ordered to financially assist a 24 year old patient with raising her son.
A Spanish court in Majorca made the decision after the woman sued because…
A Colleague of ours just came through a rough year of cancer treatment. We are extremely grateful that this partner in our firm is healthy and back to work. This colleague recently asked me to provide my comments to him for a presentation he is giving at our local Gilda’s Club regarding legal considerations when…
By Douglas J. Manning, Partner, Certified Specialist in Family Law
In an earlier blog post written by Lori Aylwin in January 2011 she discussed the tax treatment for legal fees and accounting fees incurred for the purposes of establishing or collecting child and/or spousal support. Lori’s article succinctly pointed out what needs to be established…
The Child Support Guidelines, which came into effect on May 1, 1997, set out four admirable objectives:
When children reside primarily with one parent (more than 60% of the time), the Guidelines are…
By Douglas J. Manning, Partner, Certified Specialist in Family Law
A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision has re-affirmed the principle that if a support payor’s income increases and they fail to reveal this information to the support recipient then they are in jeopardy of having their support obligation increased retroactively so as to result…
Often in Family Law proceedings clients feel bogged down by requests to produce documents. Clients have at times expressed to me a dissatisfaction with having to produce bank statements for past years, attachments from income tax returns, documents that are not easily obtainable or papers that may have existed in the past but may take…
The first step to complete in your financial statement relates to your income. Your income is important in order to determine the amount of child support you will pay in accordance with the Federal Child Support Guidelines.
Determining what your income is is usually fairly straight forward if you are a T4 employee. You state…
Let me introduce myself as the newest Barriston blogger. I joined the firm, as a partner last month. Prior to this I practiced, mostly as a sole practioner, for the past sixteen years. I have practiced law for twenty five years, mostly in the family law area. I practice in the courts, but prefer mediation…
Part 4 of the Succession Law Reform Act (“SLRA”) answers this question in the affirmative.
The SLRA provides that, in the event that a person dies, with or without a will, in circumstances where the deceased has not made adequate provision for the support of a dependent, the dependent may initiate a proceeding against the…
On a regular basis I have clients come to me with a rough agreement in hand asking me to draft a Separation Agreement for them. These are the client’s who tell me they are “amicably” separating; they “just want out”, and/or they don’t want to spend a lot of money on legal fees. Quite often…
