New Divorce Act: If your child is living outside Canada
Child abroad You brought your child in Canada... what now? If you child is living outside Canada, but is now present in your province, the provincial Court — in exceptional…
New Divorce Act: Recognizing Foreign Decisions
Foreign judgements Three kinds of foreign jurisdictions for divorce When the reform of the Divorce Act is finished as planned, there will be three kinds of foreign jurisdictions, and the…
Civil Law
New Divorce Act: When Your Ex Is in Another Country
Closer to the Convention Canada is approaching the moment when the 1996 Convention on child protection will be applicable. Some of the modifications in the Divorce Act are meant to…
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…