Spousal

Obtaining an uncontested divorce is the final step in the dissolution of your marriage. Usually, we resolve all of the issues of your divorce including issues related to the children…

I’m surprised at the number of married clients who tell me they either haven’t been involved in the family finances, or they don’t know what their spouse owns.  In many…

Trust is essential for every relationship and is often damaged when people are getting divorced. It can be damaged in many different ways. An affair, a lie or a betrayal…

Registered Retirement Savings Plans are the main savings vehicle for many Canadians, especially those who don’t have a pension through their employment. As a result, upon separation and divorce, RRSPs…

One of the most stressful aspects of separation and divorce is uncertainty. You don’t know how much money you will have, how much time you will have with your children…

Determining income is the first step toward determining the proper level of child support and spousal support. This is easy to do for employees. We just look at line 150…

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…

Do you remember the day you separated? How did it happen? Was a note left or an email sent to say it’s over? Maybe a text? Maybe it was a…

Can you imagine receiving $150,000 per month, tax-free? Karen Sala certainly could and sued Keanu Reeves hoping he would be ordered to pay that tidy sum to her. She was…

In the Ottawa Divorce Blog, the author is critical of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Leskun v. Leskun suggesting the Court is allowing “fault” to creep back into…