Ending a Common-Law Relationship? Here’s What You Need to Know

Living together without getting married doesn’t make a relationship any less valid, and those relationships experience the same issues and roadblocks that legally married couples do. Those relationships can also come to an end – even after years together. The process for ending a common-law relationship is not exactly the same as going through a divorce, but there are some important things...

First Family Principles and Divorce

All Children Are Not Equal Under First Family Practices Subsequent marriages may often lead to new siblings. Blended Families: The New Norm A previous marriage or relationship leaves a lasting impression on the future, especially when a child may be involved as a product of the former marriage. Beyond parental duties, there are financial obligations like child support that remain until a child...

Bankruptcy and Spousal Support

Spousal Support: A Debt that Cannot be Erased Following a divorce, many debtor spouses find themselves pinching pennies to make support payments. When Divorce Costs as Much as the Marriage Ceremony Divorce is expensive. It can often leave long-lasting financial problems for one or both parties. After a court grants a divorce and dissolves the legal bonds of marriage, debt obligations,...

What You Need to Know Before Using an Online Spousal Support Calculator

Many people turn to online spousal support calculators, in hopes of making sense of their situation. The anxiety of not knowing what support they can hope for will lead them to try anything. But you can’t trust an online calculator to give you the whole picture. These tools are not complex enough to be able to give you a good sense of what to expect, especially as your case may not fit...

How Much Child Support Will I Get From My Spouse?

One of the most devastating consequences of divorce is the financial impact it has on your ability to take care of your children. Child support law in Canada is set up to ensure that kids, who already suffer negative effects from the end of their parents’ marriage, receive financial support from the husband, especially when the divorce compromises the household income of a wife. Child...

Credit for Overpayment of Spousal Support

Is a person entitled to credit for overpayment of past spousal support and to termination of spousal support when the property issues between the parties have been determined? (1) Should the entire date-of-separation value of White Holdings (“the Corporation”), a corporation of which your client, Mr. White, holds the preferred shares, be included in your client’s NFP; and (2) Is your client...

Spousal Support After Equalization Payment

If a spouse receives a large equalization payment is she still entitled to spousal support? You informed me that your client is a stock trader who left his employment during the marriage to manage his own stocks. The value of his stocks exceeds $10 million. The stocks are the sole source of his income, by way of dividends and such. Your client splits income with his wife. Their combined income...