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Barrie ON Divorce ‘Expo’ Eases Stress of Breaking Up! “The Starting Over Show,” an event dubbed as Ontario’s first Divorce and Separation Expo is being staged to give separating and…

If you are separating or divorcing, you have a story to tell. It’s a story that starts with happiness and hopefulness and ends in sadness and separation. When I separated,…

So, you lived together in a common-law relationship but now it has come to an end. Your friends say “When you separate, it’s just the same as if you had…

All relationships are trying at times but perhaps one of the more difficult ones is between a “new wife” and the “ex-wife”. (Probably this is true for the “new husband”…

Attorney General Chris Bentley, pictured above, announced that effective July 18, 2011, all new applicants to Family Court in Ontario must attend the Mandatory Information Program. This is a 2-hour…

Are you over 50 years old and thinking about getting a divorce? You are not alone. More and more older couples are getting divorced. Deborah Moskovitch, author of The Smart Divorce writes…

Separation and divorce are hard on children. Frankly, it’s hard on everyone, adult children included. Often separating couples see their adult children as being more able to cope with their…

The Parental Planner is a new way for separated parents to communicate with one another. It is essentially a communications journal that is passed between parents at the time of…

When you divorce, what would you rather have – a valuable pension or a home worth the same? Or does it matter? If a pension is worth the same as…

Everyone hates having to do a sworn financial statement. This is a court form used in Ontario to list your assets, debts, income and expenses.  It is long, cumbersome and,…

Summer is fast approaching. Now is the time to begin to work on your summer access schedule. Some separated families have the summer schedule set for every summer. Mom will…

Parenting is not easy. Parenting when separated is even more difficult. Mark A. Nacol, a Texas family law lawyer, in his blog Nacol Law Firm Blog does an excellent job describing…