Why Canada needs a split from its messy divorce laws
Erin Anderssen
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 6:16PM EDT
Love is grand, the saying goes, divorce is 100 grand.
True words for 49-year-old Lucas Kott, a self-employed construction worker who estimates that after all the lawyer's fees, affidavits and court appearances, he and his soon-to-be ex-wife will have spent nearly $125,000 arguing over custody of their two young children. His half has already put him $20,000 in debt, even before a five-day trialscheduled for the fall – money he knows would have been better spent on his kids. Now, he can't afford to move out of his two-bedroom Vancouver apartment......
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.That cautionary lesson might have spared Tania Thompson long days in court and the $50,000 she paid in legal fees, most of it borrowed from her father. Now a single mom with two young children in Mississauga, she wishes that she and her ex-husband had been ordered into mediation before a judge was even an option. “The lawyers all of a sudden make it more of a tense situation.” And a courtroom, she says, is a cold place to reorganize your family for the future....Read More
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