by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
As The Beatles song Back in the USSR trumpets with enthusiasm: “Georgia’s always on my my my my mind.” With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Georgia is now a separate country. They have their own laws. These laws are not the...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Is a dog different from silverware, or a television? Of course it is. A dog is alive. It has feelings. It is, for many good reasons, “man’s best friend.” When a couple breaks up and they divide their stuff, they don’t worry about whether the...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Being named as a parent on a baby’s birth registration is not the same thing as being legally declared a parent by court order. In the world of reproductive technology, this should be kept in mind — especially if you want to make sure you truly are a...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Suppose a child has three legally-recognized parents. Suppose further that two of them are in a couple, and they break up. Would this entitle the child to more total financial support than if there were only two parents? It’s an interesting question, and a...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
As the old saying goes, “and baby makes three.” The numbers were updated in Ontario, however, when the province’s appeal court ruled that a child had three legal parents, hence, baby made four. This groundbreaking 2007 case, called AA v. BB, brought...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Mar 6, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
It’s hard to argue with the wisdom of Neil Sedaka, whose classic 1962 song captured an obvious truth: Breaking Up is Hard to Do. Thanks to the Ontario government, it just got a whole lot harder. The problem is that if you break up, the deadline for launching a...
