Case law

Factors judges consider for support of adult children: Recent case law

The issue of how much child support should be paid for adult children and for how long it should be paid is not clearly addressed in the Child Support Guidelines.
In a 2012 British Columbia case (Naylor v Naylor 2012 CarswellBC 2979), Justice Jenkins explores this issue with respect to an adult child who is still in full time school.

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Mobility: Recent case law

The case of Boudreault v Charles, 2014 ONCJ 273 (XanLII) explores the factors for a judge to consider when hearing a motion for an interim order to relocate a child.
In this case, the mother already had interim custody and the father had supervised access to the 3-year-old child.

When family property does not have to be divided equally

The Family Law Act sets out the regime by which property is divided when a married couple separates. Because marriage is considered a partnership, with each person bringing equal but different contributions to that partnership, the property they accumulate during the years of marriage is to be shared equally between them,