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The Federal Justice Department is looking for feedback from Canadians on the Federal Child Support Guidelines, and specifically on: the process to decide the amount of child support payable in shared parenting time arrangements (so, where a child lives at least 40% of the time with each parent); and … Read more »

I like to tell the executors of estates (also called estate trustees in Ontario) about kings who behaved badly throughout history.  King Louis XVI held the Estates General – a widespread consultative conference – 173 years after the last one, and was put to the guillotine on January 21, 1793.   King … Read more »

The Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (Ontario) or “ONCA” was proclaimed on October 19th, 2021 and provided for a three-year transition period for Ontario not-for-profits to transition to its terms from the Corporations Act (Ontario).  This means that in less than two months – on October 19th, 2024 – … Read more »

The first day as a summer law student can bring a lot of excitement and certainly some nervousness. That was the case for me. Any doubts subsided, however, when I too became privy to the well-known secret that success during a law student’s summer term (like most endeavours) can often be broken into … Read more »

Elder abuse, unfortunately, is a common topic of discussion amongst estate practitioners, particularly, financial abuse, the most common form of elder abuse. In broad terms, financial abuse, typically, occurs when an elderly person is coerced, unduly influenced or even coaxed into parting with money … Read more »