Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday June 28, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun 28, 2016 at 6:33am PDTMany custody disputes in Ontario family law matters are now resolved thr…
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Wise Law Blog: Legal Aid Funding to Increase Provincially
Provincial Legal Aid will be provided with $30 million per year from the Justice Department. This, coming after 13 years of federal contributions remaining stagnant at $112 million per year. “All Canadians — no matter their means — should ha…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday June 23, 2016. Today we are talking about Civil Litigation.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun 23, 2016 at 6:33am PDT The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) is a free onli…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday June 22, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun 22, 2016 at 7:16am PDTThe Child Support Guideline Table Look-up is a free tool to calculate …
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday June 16, 2016. Today we are talking abut Family Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun 16, 2016 at 6:09am PDTOntario’s Family Law Act (FLA) governs the equalization and division o…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday June 2, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun 2, 2016 at 6:44am PDTIn addition to the basic child support payable under the Guidelines, addi…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May19, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by null (@wiselaw) on May 19, 2016 at 6:23am PDTIn determining entitlement to spousal support, Ontario courts consider the financial…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday May 12, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on May 12, 2016 at 6:11am PDTA final Separation Agreement will document all issues that have been resolved by the parti…
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Here is your daily Law Fact from Wise Law for Friday May 6, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on May 6, 2016 at 6:21am PDTA family law Separation Agreement is a binding legal agreement signed by both spouses to docu…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday April 29, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 29, 2016 at 6:29am PDTThe first same-sex marriage in Ontario occurred on January 14, 2001. Its legality, along w…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Monday April 25, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) assist Ontario Courts in determining the amount of spousal support payable by a spouse. Unlik…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 13, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 13, 2016 at 6:35am PDTMany couples live separate and apart “under one roof,” following marital separation…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday April 7, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by @wiselaw on Apr 7, 2016 at 6:26am PDTWhere all matrimonial issues have been resolved as at the one-year anniversary of a separa…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: You’ve Been Served – On Facebook
In a March 27, 2015 decision in Baidoo v Blood-Dzraku, 2015 NY Slip Op 25096, New York County Supreme Court Judge Mathew Cooper permitted substituted service of a divorce summons via Facebook: As recently as ten years ago, it was considered a cutting edge development in civil practice for a
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Spousal Immunity: You May Or May Not Tell The Courts What Your Spouse Tells You
Should common law spouses be exempt from testifying against their spouse in criminal cases? A recent article by the LawTime’s, Yamri Taddese provides some insight to this complex question. Recently in R.v. Lomond, 2015 ONCJ 109 the Honourable Justice Javed of the Ontario Court of Justice found that to deny
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How Cohabitation Impacts Alimony Payments By Scott Stadler, P.A. This article was written by a divorce and family Law Attorney Scott Stadle, who works in Broward and Palm Beach counties, US. The author raises a very interesting issue in this article. How an amount of alimony is receiving by a
Continue readingWise Law Blog: The Post-Secondary "Child:" Guidelines Need not Apply
BY ANA KRALJEVIC, LAWYER, WISE LAW OFFICEOnce a child reaches his or her eighteenth birthday, the age of majority, the question of whether that child is entitled to support becomes highly fact-driven and contextual. As J. D. Payne and M.A. Payne note in their text, Child Support Guidelines in Canada, 2012,: Once
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Intentional Under-Employment – Judges Tell Payors "Get a Real Job!"
When will Ontario’s courts impute income to a parent for the purpose of calculating his or her child support obligations?Section 19(1)(a) of the Child Support Guidelines grants the court the right to impute income to a parent if deemed appropriate to do so under the circumstances. For example, the court may
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Family Law Agreements: When Independent Legal Advice is Not Enough
In the spirit of encouraging parties to settle their own affairs, courts are generally loathe to overturn domestic contracts. That being said, if a domestic contract is manifestly unfair to the point of unconscionability, the court reserves the right to set aside an agreement that has been executed and purports
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paternity Testing in Ontario: Perhaps Damned If You Do, But Certainly Damned If You Don’t
Paternity testing, in most cases, is requested in applications in which child support is sought from a putative father, necessitating a declaration of parentage under sections 4 or 5 of Ontario’s Children’s Law Reform Act. Biological parentage, however, is but one of the factors that create an obligation to support a child in
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