Dividing family property: Cultural considerations – Part 1
How do cultural traditions and norms, such as dowry and the Muslim Mahr, interact with Canadian law when property is divided?
Read moreWhy International Women’s Day still matters
Women, even in this very privileged country, in just one year, have lost some of the gains we and those before us fought hard to get.
Read moreThis International Women’s Day ensure that women’s expert voices are centred in COVID-19 recovery plans
Op-Ed in The Toronto Star by Farrah Khan and Pamela Cross This International Women’s Day we can expect to hear the usual platitudes from government, business and institutions about women’s empowerment and how far we have come. What we deserve to hear are concrete commitments to address the gender-based impacts of the pandemic. We cannot go…
Read moreGovernment of Canada Commits to National Action Plan (NAP) on Gender Based Violence (GBV)
Luke’s Place co-chairs working group for National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence
Read moreNew laws for parenting arrangements
Luke’s Place has resources available on changes to the Divorce Act and the Children’s Law Reform Act.
Read moreWebinar: Making the new Divorce Act work for women
The new Divorce Act is effective, March 1, 2021. This webinar looks at how to make the new act work for women who are leaving an abusive relationship.
Read moreStaying in the family home after separating from an abusive partner
If you are married to your ex-partner, the home the two of you shared is called the matrimonial home. The law says you each have an equal right to occupy that home, regardless of whose name is on the deed or the lease unless you have a court order or a legal agreement saying otherwise.…
Read moreShould Canada criminalize coercive controlling behaviour?
As Crystal Giesbrecht recently wrote in The Lawyer’s Daily, coercive control in situations of intimate partner abuse is often unidentified or misunderstood. While, as she noted, coercive control is not a criminal offence in Canada, that could change if MP Randall Garrison has his way. Last fall, he introduced a private member’s bill – Bill…
Read moreFirst Nation vs family law case: Part three
This case challenges the constitutionality of Ontario’s family law legislation with respect to whether the OCJ and SCJ can make custody and access orders when the child belongs to a First Nation.
Read moreRecent case: Job loss during the pandemic and child support
Moreton v Inthavixay 2020 ONSC 4881: This decision relates to the father’s request to reduce the amount of child support he was to pay because he lost his job due to the pandemic. However, it is also the most recent episode in a family law dispute that has been in litigation for three years, with…
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