New Year, New Leaf: Divorce in January

With the arrival of the first month of each new year, many lawyers report a steep increase in inquiries concerning separation or divorce. For those looking for precedents or general primers on divorce and separation, the Great Library has a wealth of material amongst our family law collection:

• Lexis Practice Advisor – Family Law (Ontario) (contact refstaff@lso.ca with requests)
  • features checklists, precedents, and practice notes concerning such topics as child and spousal support, domestic contracts like separation agreements, and divorce proceeding pleadings like affidavits, applications, notices, etc.

• O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms – Ontario Family Law (contact refstaff@lso.ca with requests)
  • includes domestic contracts like mediation and separation agreements (the latter with clause-by-clause breakdowns), pleadings like affidavits, applications, and notices, and more.

• Law Society CPD papers from recent family law programs (publicly and freely available on AccessCLE), such as:
  • Family Law Refresher 2021
  • Six-Minute Famiy Law Lawyer 2021
    
• CPD programs often contain useful precedents and drafting commentary like in:
  • Drafting an Effective Separation Agreement
  • Sample Separation Agreement

• Domestic Contracts by Hugh G. Stark and Kirstie J. MacLise (contact refstaff@lso.ca with requests)
  • contains guidance, best practices, checklists, and precedents concerning such domestic contracts as separation agreements, mediated separation agreements, parenting agreements, child support provisions, and more.

• Canadian Divorce Law and Practice by James C. MacDonald, Lee K. Ferrier (contact refstaff@lso.ca with requests)
  • includes precedent domestic contracts like separation agreements as well as sample pleadings such as memorandums, petitions, applications, etc.

This is but a snipping of the material dealing with divorce and separation that the library possesses in our collection. Need more information about our family law materials? Just ask us!