Why craft a cohabitation agreement?
Keeping your assets protected in a common-law relationship Over the past decade, divorce trends have been decreasing worldwide. Despite a growing Canadian population overall, fewer marriages and more cohabitation is a rising trend in Canada. Census data reports that common-law relationships rose by 13.9% and lone-parent families’ rose by 8% from 2006 to 2011. Family […]
Advice From a Lawyer – The Best Way to Divorce
Advice from a Lawyer: The Best Way to Divorce In Ontario, over a one year period ending in the spring of 2013, there were 30,254 divorce cases started in the Superior Court of Justice. A typical divorce through the Court system can take two years, costs tens of thousands of dollars, is emotionally draining because […]
A family residence is not a matrimonial home if a spouse does not have a property interest in it
In Spencer v Riesberry at issue was whether the home that the husband and wife lived in during their marriage was a matrimonial home within the meaning of section 18(1) of the Family Law Act. It was clear that the home had been the family residence since the couple was married in 1994. However, it […]