BY RACHEL SPENCE, LAW CLERK Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could avoid going to Court to update or set up your child support payments? The Government of Ontario has made that an option for some, by setting up a user-friendly site found here. It’s important to first note who
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Wise Law Blog: Setting Up or Updating Child Support Online in Ontario
BY RACHEL SPENCE, LAW CLERK Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could avoid going to Court to update or set up your child support payments? The Government of Ontario has made that an option for some, by setting up a user-friendly site found here. It’s important to first note who
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BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, LAWYER, WISE LAW OFFICE Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your spouse may not actually be your spouse, as far as the law is concerned. In what can only be described as “un-frikin-believable”, a Peterboroughcouple has come to learn that the wedding officiator they found
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: 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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