A Trial Management Conference is a procedural appearance which takes place after a Settlement Conference has been held and the Family Court Application remains unsettled.
The purposes of the Trial Management Conference include:
a) Exploring the chances of settling the case;
b) Arranging to receive evidence by written report and agreed statements of facts, by
About this time last year Jodi Armstrong, another family law lawyer at Barriston Law, wrote a blog entitled “What to Expect at a Case Conference”. Recent discussions with clients suggested to me that it might be helpful to follow Jodi’s lead to provide a series of blogs explaining in some detail what parties
When you separate, there are often so many things that must get resolved – the parenting plan for the children, financial support for the children or for the spouse, the property division and all the details involved with all of those issues. Even if both sides are cooperating, resolving all these issues can take what
By Jodi Armstrong
When you are already in a stressful situation, and perhaps feeling a little overwhelmed by the issues that have arisen as a result of your separation, it would be nice, I am sure, to have a clear understanding of the meaning of the words that we family law lawyers tend to throw
Catherine Hyde, Family Law Clerk.
The commercials have already started advertising the upcoming Christmas season, displaying those warm fuzzy families. Now that you are separated or divorced, you can’t help but wonder how you can still have the best Christmas for yourself and your children.
Even though it is still just over a month away, it
By Evelyn Thompson, Family Law Clerk
I recently attended a Mandatory Information Program session, also known as a “MIP”. I was on a fact-finding mission. I wanted to experience, first-hand, the basic information that is given to both parties so I might better prepare my clients as to what they could expect. What surprised me
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
Have you ever heard the expression – “Blew the case wide open”? This might seem more relevant to a murder trial where they find the smoking gun or perhaps you have watched a CSI episode and suddenly they find that one piece of evidence that magically solves the case.
Believe it or not that can
In Ontario, there has been much discussion in the media and amongst various legal groups about ‘access to justice’ and how, in particular, the high cost of litigation prevents people from ‘accessing the justice system’. Recently, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Chief dealt with this issue in her remarks at the
One of the ‘four pillars’ of court reform announced by Ontario’s Attorney General, Chris Bentley, last year (2010) was to provide up front information for people who were suffering from marriage breakdown. The way in which Minister Bentley’s strives to provide this information is the “MIP”. Many separating couples simply do not know the range