by Shirley Levitan | Mar 23, 2024 | Family Law, Fertility Law
Both women in lesbian couples can now be named as the mothers on their children’s birth certificates, Israel’s High Court of Justice has ordered. The decision, which is the result of many years of litigation, is being praised by the LGBTQ community as a historic...
by Shirley Levitan | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, Family Law
Thanks to the new Divorce Act, the following cross-examination will never again take place in a Canadian courtroom: LAWYER If the judge decides you can’t take the children with you, will you still move away? PARENT I guess so. It’s a great...
by Shirley Levitan | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog, Family Law
Some people are “all wrong” about money. They think, for example, that if they pay out $500 for some unexpected expense, and it turns out to be unnecessary and they get the money back, then they’ve profited by $500. Therefore they can go ahead and blow it...
by Shirley Levitan | Aug 13, 2018 | Family Law, Fertility Law
What is the price of a human embryo? It depends. In some circumstances an embryo, once birthed, can trigger liability for child support. In other circumstances, as shown by a recent ground-breaking case from Ontario, it can be reduced to the status of...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Family Law, Uncategorized
How not to win a court case goes like this……: Stubbornly insisting that nothing is your fault, the other person is always to blame, and they are a liar but you always see and tell the truth, is a good way to lose your credibility. In a recent Ontario...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Family Law, Uncategorized
If you think “the dog ate my homework” is a lame excuse, you should check out a recent Ontario case where the judge had to decide a not-uncommon divorce question: was the money that the parents put toward’s their son’s matrimonial home a...
