Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Your Finances May Not Be Rosy After Gray Divorce
Divorce rates are decreasing, even after you account for the fact that marriage rates have also been getting lower in recent years. Fewer people get married, and the ones that do are likely to stay married. The age group accounting for an ever-larger share of divorce cases is couples over age 50. Some participants… Read More »
The Naturalization Process for U.S. Citizenship May Get More Expensive
If you believe the headlines that have dominated doom scrolling feeds for the past year and a half, then the United States and Canada are mortal enemies, and Canadians who are planning to immigrate to the United States should put their plans on hold. While no one, not even the most eloquent chatbot friend… Read More »
Cohabitation Agreements
In business, people spend a lot of time looking forward to making money, when the arrival of this money depends on many factors outside their control. One factor that is within their control is the legally binding agreements that they can enter with other parties such as business partners and vendors. Therefore, anyone who… Read More »
Common Law Relationships in Ontario
When media personalities lament the decline of marriage, they are not counting the couples who are married in all but name. According to the Simple Divorce news website, 15.7 percent of the residents of Ontario were in common law relationships in 2025. A common law relationship is one where two domestic partners live together… Read More »
Managing Co-Parenting Conflict During Summer Vacation
Now that the snow has melted and the daylight hours are getting longer, children all over Ontario are counting the days under summer vacation, even though they still have a few weeks to wait. Parents do not view summer vacation with nearly the same joyful anticipation as children do. For parents, summer vacation is… Read More »
The Ideal Timeline for Prenuptial Agreements
Elaborate weddings can bring out shockingly immature behavior in the spouses, their parents, and the wedding party, but if there is anything about weddings that proves to you that you are an adult, it is that it takes months, if not more than a year, to plan them. You must book the venue and… Read More »
Your Financial Obligations to a Freeloading Spouse Do Not Always End as Soon as You Divorce
For every divorced couple whose marriage fell apart because they prioritized their commitments to their respective careers over their commitments to the family they shared, there is a divorced couple that grew apart because only one spouse was in the workforce. At their best, families where one spouse earns employment income while the other… Read More »
Think Before You Curveball Divorce
Leave it to the Internet to make up new names for things that aren’t new and act like it just discovered or invented them, especially when it comes to relationship trends. For the past few years, the Internet has talked about gray divorce, but this is not a new phenomenon. Rather, before there were… Read More »
Getting Your Fair Share of the Marital Property After Financial Future Faking Has Wrecked Your Marriage
When you complain to a wise elder about how someone got your hopes up, the wise elder will remind you that no one can get your hopes up unless you let them. Many divorced people are divorced because they realized too late that their expectations about the future did not match their spouses’ expectations;… Read More »
Navigating Awkward Social Situations After Divorce
Divorce increases financial stress for almost everyone, even people who were financially well off during their marriages. Adjusting to lean times, which might only become leaner in the future, is not the worst part, though. The hardest part of divorce is finding a new way to interact with people, including but not limited to… Read More »