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**This title is to be purchased by students only**
Click here for the professional edition of Ontario Family Law Practice, 2025 Edition (Volume 1) + Related Materials (Volume 2).
Newly Updated for Changing Times
As the all-time “Go-To” Resource for family law practitioners, Ontario Family Law Practice, 2025 Edition contains the amendments to the Family Law Rules, along with expert insights on family law practice.
For more than two decades, Ontario Family Law Practice has been the leading text for family judges, lawyers and mediators, providing them with relevant law, practice tips, and contact information at their fingertips. In two volumes, you'll find succinct, section-by-section annotations of the key federal and Ontario legislation and rules governing family law.
Along with digests of over 5,000 cases and statutory cross-references, this book offers insight and analysis from leading members of the judiciary and bar. Key developments are noted in the year in review summary, and legislation is fully cross-referenced for ease of use. Related materials are provided in the accompanying softcover Volume 2. Only Ontario Family Law Practice continues to deliver all the family law information needed to succeed in one convenient and portable package.
The 2025 Edition – What’s New?
- Amendments to the Family Law Rules:
- O. Reg. 349/23 enacts house-keeping changes dealing with the clerk’s role in electronic and paper filing; limits the ability of parties to extend the deadline for filing expert opinion evidence; and alters the documentation for a summons to witness
- Amendments to the Divorce Act and various regulations
- Coming into force in Canada of the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
- Digests of all reported Ontario family law cases over the previous year, including the Court of Appeal’s rulings on key topics, such as:
- Appeals from uncontested trials (Lamothe v. Ellis)
- Appeals where pleadings struck (Wilson v. Fatahi-Ghandehari)
- Child protection – Costs against agency (Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex v. T.E.)
- Child Support Guidelines (Zhao v. Xiao)
- Contempt – Final or interlocutory order (Gueye v. DiNino)
- Domestic agreements – Formal requirements (El Rassi-Wight v. Arnold)
- Equalization – Unpursued trust claims (Karatzoglou v. Commisso)
- Foreign divorce decrees (Abraham v. Gallo)
- Multiplicity of proceedings (Tran v. Taylor)
- Parenting orders – Health decisions (J.N. v. C.G.)
- Parenting orders – Review term (Cuthbert v. Nolis)
- Removal of child – Habitual residence – Serious harm (Zafar v. Azeem)
- 2023-2024 Year-in-Review
- And more!
Who Should Buy
- Family law practitioners who need a quick reference guide before and in court or during client or settlement meetings
- Non-specialist lawyers who need one-stop, easy-to-use access to overlapping legislation and constantly evolving case law
- Judges of Ontario family courts who demand a comprehensive and authoritative source of the law and practice in this area
- Family Mediators and Child Protection Mediators who need to consult a reliable resource for interpretation of the law
Putting Family Law in the Palm of Your Hand
Ontario Family Law Practice is published in two volumes – a hardcover main volume to take to court (Volume 1) and a softcover Related Materials volume (Volume 2).
Table of contents
VOLUME 1
The Year in Review
New Terminology in Family Law Rules and Forms
Limitations Table
Table of Cases
Part I: Key Legislation
Annotated Divorce Act; Federal Child Support Guidelines and Simplified Tables; Child Support Guidelines (Ontario) and Tables; Children’s Law Reform Act; Family Law Act; Marriage Act; and Family Law Rules
VOLUME 2
Part II: Other Statutes
Annotated Child, Youth, and Family Services Act, 2017; Civil Marriage Act; Annulment of Marriages Act (Ontario); Marriage (Prohibited Degrees) Act; Marriage Act; Change of Name Act; Intercountry Adoption Act, 1998; Partition Act (selection); Pension Benefits Standards Act (selection); Pension Benefits Act (selection); Succession Law Reform Act (selection); Vital Statistics Act (selection); Evidence Act (Ontario) (selection); Courts of Justice Act (selection); An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Youth and Families; Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act (selection); Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act (selection); Creditors’ Relief Act (selection); Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act, 1996 (selection); Fraudulent Conveyances Act (selection); Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act, 2002 (selection); and Wages Act (selection)
Part III: Other Regulations
Annotated regulations under the Divorce Act; the Change of Name Act; the Intercountry Adoption Act, 1998; the Marriage Act; the Pension Benefits Act; the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act; the Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act, 1996; the Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act, 2002; the Children’s Law Reform Act; the Arbitration Act; and the Child, Youth and Family Services Act
Part IV: Reference Material
Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines – The Revised User’s Guide
Practice Note 1: The Family Court Branch of the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario Overview
Practice Note 2: Consolidated Provincial Practice Direction for Family Proceedings at the Superior Court of Justice
Practice Note 3: Valuation and Income Assessment: Expert Reports for Family Law
Practice Note 4: Developments in the Treatment of Pensions under Ontario Family Law
Practice Note 5: Practitioner’s Notes
Practice Note 6: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts – Ontario Chapter Parenting Plan Guide and Template
Practice Note 7: Ontario Judges’ and Lawyers’ Guide to Safety Planning
