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The choice to adopt a child or children from another country may happen for a number of different reasons.

Over the last few weeks, we've discussed various ways to resolve family law disputes without resorting to court litigation.

As Ontario litigants will have been told by their lawyers, and prospective litigants likely will have learned from news coverage, Ontario courts

The Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act (the "Act") will come into force on January 1, 2023, as one of several measures enacted by the federal government to target...

If you partly own property, but your co-owner does not want to sell (or develop, or mortgage, etc.), don't worry, you have options.

A common law marriage is an informal relationship that does not require the legal form of a statutory marriage.

Child and spousal support obligations take effect either pursuant to a court order or a separation agreement (to be sure, many people make informal arrangements amongst themselves, though this is rarely advisable).

Separated Parents do have to share some expenses for their children on top of base child support. Section 7 of the Child Support Guidelines sets out what expenses parents have to pay...

FamilyMatters is the Lerners Family Law Group's weekly update on how that change is being made:

It is an unfortunate reality that divorce, or a relationship breakdown, can occur when someone is going through personal injury litigation. The stress of being injured in an accident and missing work...

Surrogacy is a crucial family planning option and intended parents and surrogates often have (or should have) questions surrounding their legal rights and the surrogacy process itself.

There can be many good reasons to enter into a Marriage or Cohabitation Agreement.

There can be many good reasons to enter into a Marriage or Cohabitation Agreement. Perhaps there are children from a previous relationship who must be protected.

On September 29, 2016, Bill 28: All Families Are Equal Act (Parentage and Related Registrations Statute Law Amendment), 2016, was introduced in the Ontario legislature.

Domestic abuse can be difficult to talk about and it is rarely an issue victims of abuse want to raise with complete or near strangers. And

The British Columbia government recently introduced changes to the Family Law Act, including amendments to the rules for pension division on relationship...

The cases of Richardson Estate v. Mew and Tower Estate v. Tower Estate considered whether a provision in a separation agreement can revoke a prior beneficiary designation.