Catherine Hyde – Family Law Clerk
Summers in Barrie, Ontario have always been beautiful. We live in a marvelous city with the beautiful Kempenfelt Bay at its centre. I came from a si
ngle parent home and there was not much money. Back in the 60’s every Sunday we walked from our home on Mulholland Drive
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
Catherine Hyde, Family Law Clerk
My uncle was residing in a nursing home and it was left to my husband and me to sell his home. We sought input from three realtors as to the price and what needed to be done in order to sell the home.
Two of the agents came in and
For the past twenty six years I have been practicing law. It definitely does not feel as though it has been that long, and I have enjoyed every minute of it.
To me, it has always been about helping people. However as I get set in my ways I notice how habits develop without me
30 years ago, on a blustery spring day in Ottawa, then Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Queen Elizabeth executed a document proclaiming the patriation of the Constitution and the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The patriation of the Constitution, as Trudeau said in his remarks that day, marked the arrival
By Douglas J. Manning, Partner, Certified Specialist in Family Law
A recent decision in Ontario has raised the profile of the tort of “invasion of privacy” in a case that may have an impact on family law cases. This case involved a claim by Ms. Jones against Ms. Tsige for “invasion of privacy”. The act
Increasingly separated parties are relying on”Facebook”, email and text messages to prove certain parts of their case – and this can be very confusing.
Firstly, all electronic evidence will have to conform with respect to authenticity, originality and reliability. This is sometimes difficult as sites may not be secure or cut and paste documents can
By Douglas J. Manning, Partner, Certified Specialist in Family Law
In 1985 the adoption laws in Ontario were changed so as to allow for the adoption of an adult by another adult. This was done primarily to allow long-standing pseudo parent-child relationships to be recognized by the law as just as legitimate as “real” biological
Catherine Hyde
Family Law Clerk
We often receive telephone calls from clients wondering whether we have a paralegal in our family department that can be retained as opposed to a lawyer, as a cheaper option of resolving their family disputes.
The Law Society of Upper Canada began regulating paralegals in May, 2007. This means that
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