Wilson on Children and Financial Support

Farrah Hudani, J.D., LL.M., is the new senior editor of the leading publication on children and their interests, Wilson on Children and the Law, and is the chapter editor of the Hague Convention section of the book. She is the founding partner of Burrison Hudani Doris, LLP. Farrah’s practice encompasses all areas of family law, including complex property and support claims and custody and access disputes. She has significant experience in jurisdictional issues, Hague Convention cases and mobility disputes. Farrah has argued leading reported cases in these areas and lectured at conferences in Canada and the United States. She has experience arguing cases at all levels of court, including the Ontario Court of Justice, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Most recently, she argued in the Supreme Court of Canada on the issue of the availability of the writ of habeas corpus for children. Farrah is a member of the Ontario bar and the American bar. She also has an LL.M. in Family Law from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Jeffery Wilson, B.A., LL.B., was the original author of Wilson on Children and the Law, a LexisNexis publication since 1978, and a work that has staked a legitimate place for children and contemporary law within and outside of Canada.

The primary source for the work contained in the Halsbury’s Education, Infants and Children and Youth Justice titles is from Wilson on Children and Law.

Maryellen Symons practises as an independent research lawyer, providing legal research and writing services and case strategy advice to litigators in a wide range of practice areas and in cases at all levels of court. She has contributed to Wilson on Children and the Law since 2000.

Maryellen received her LL.B. from the University of Windsor, adopting law as her profession after a career in the academic world. She clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario before being called to the Bar. Her experience includes several years as a legal editor at Butterworths Canada.

As a member of the Ontario Bar Association, Maryellen has organized and spoken at continuing legal education sessions and participated in drafting submissions to the Ontario Legislature and the Law Commission of Ontario. She is a past chair of the Women Lawyers Forum and the Child and Youth Law Section and a member of the Family Law Section.