Why Canada needs a split from its messy divorce laws

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

Divorced parents ordered to read books and write summaries by Justice David Price , #fb

Ontario Superior Court Justice David Price told the separated couple, who are bickering over money and access to children, that the books “may improve their ability to communicate and resolve some of the issues that are troubling them.”


The couple has until Nov. 30 to read the books and provide “proof they have done so, together with the one-page summary, for each book, of one insight that they have gained from it and one strategy, if any, they are prepared to adopt based on it.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/882776--judge-orders-warring-parents-to-read-report-on-three-books

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