Canada: Divorce

It is 2025. Most people are deeply connected to their smart phones. As a collective, we are shifting towards a population where information is at our fingertips and Chat GPT has become a common tool the public can use to obtain information.

The 15th Annual Pension & Benefits Seminar, held on October 22, 2025, brought together leading pension professionals to discuss recent developments, emerging challenges, and best practices in the pensions...

When parents separate, it's common to put a temporary parenting schedule in place "just for now" while everyone figures out what comes next. But a recent decision from the Ontario Court...

R.L. v. M.F. involved a dispute over spousal support following the end of an over 14-year marriage in which both the husband and wife were high income earners.

Due to the high cost of residential real estate in Ontario, many buyers require financial assistance from family members.

An annulment is a legal declaration that a marriage was never legally valid – it deems the marriage null and void as if it never happened.

Certain amendments to Ontario's Succession Law Reform Act (SLRA) came into force January 1, 2022, which can remove the inheritance entitlement of an individual who is separated from their spouse.

Financial disclosure is fundamental to the efficient resolution of the financial issues arising from separation. When a couple separates, the exchange of financial is an essential ingredient in the determination...

Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 19, 2024.