New Divorce Act: Interprovincial Process Simplified
New Divorce Act Simplified procedure is available Modifications to the Divorce Act keep available the regular Court procedure when it comes to applications for support order or variations of such…
Divorce Quebec
Our lawyers are often involved in divorce procedures in Quebec. They have particular and profound expertise in the Quebec divorce procedure specificities. Also, our lawyers work often with divorce files…
How to terminate child support
How to stop child support? One of the most common mistakes many people make when it comes to child support payments is to assume that this obligation stops automatically when…
Child support calculation
There might be two situations affecting the way child support is calculated by Quebec Courts. It depends on where the parents live. Quebec Courts set child support amounts according to…
Foreign Divorce in Quebec — any good?
Foreign divorce a l’étranger So you know that getting a divorce in Quebec is a long and bumpy process, same as in Canada on the whole. Why not going for…
Parental Child Abduction
Parental Child Abduction Parental child abduction - Child abduction by a parent is a situation when one parent takes a child somewhere without the other parent’s knowledge or consent —…
Filiation and Adoption in Quebec
filiation and adoption in Quebec Filiation and adoption in Quebec. Three (3) ways of filiation are recognized in the Civil Code of Quebec: by blood, by assisted procreation and by…
Best divorce lawyer — female or male?
best divorce lawyer Rumours do not stop circulating. “Female judge will be compassionate to a wife”, they say. “A female lawyer cannot fight on a husband’s side”, they say. “The…
Child Custody During COVID-19 Quarantine
Two judgments were rendered recently, dealing with the child custody question in the times of coronavirus outbreak: Droit de la famille — 20453 (by the Quebec Superior Court) and Ribeiro…
Divorce and Coronavirus
Coronavirus and divorce: what are the impacts? The Global Times, a Chinese newspaper published in English, shared with us a legal fact deserving to be noted. Applications for divorce exploded…