Category Archives: Family Law
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 »
How Does Financial Infidelity Affect Your Divorce Case?
Lies about money are a common cause of the breakdown of marriages and intimate relationships. The laws of Ontario enable people to dissolve domestic partnerships with or without the involvement of the court if the parties are not married to each other and do not have minor children together. If you seek to divorce… Read More »
Are You Sure Your Gray Divorce Settlement Will Leave You Set for Life?
Divorce always feels like a major defeat when you are in the midst of it. If you are young when you get divorced, you might feel like your whole world has shattered, and you are no longer sure of anything you have ever believed. You feel like you are restarting your adult life from… 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 »
Daycare Is for Divorced Co-Parents, Too
Even before social media ramped up the ugliness surrounding virtually every subject of discussion, the so-called “mommy wars” raged in print journalism and on text-only online message boards accessed from desktop computers. Women who did not work outside the home shamed mothers who relied on employment income for sending their children to daycare while… Read More »
Moving Forward After an Unsuccessful Business Venture Tanks Your Marriage and Your Finances
A few weeks ago, someone who had made an unsuccessful bid for social media stardom wrote to Money Made about how to move on from this mistake. The letter writer had a cute dog who didn’t mind being dressed in costumes and photographed, so she decided to try to monetize her social media accounts… Read More »
Agreeing to Sell Your Marital Home When You Divorce Is Just the Beginning
Disagreements about whether to go the DIY route or whether to hire someone to help with a challenging project have caused conflict in many marriages. You and your spouse might not agree on whether the money you will spend hiring a new contractor is worth it for the time and stress you will save… Read More »