This Week in Family Law Newsletter

COVID-19 Update

Tarkowski v. Lemieux, 2020 CarswellOnt 8070 (C.J.), Justice Jones gave the mother sole custody of the parties' daughter, but gave the father sole authority to decide whether to vaccinate her for COVID-19 if/when a vaccination becomes available.

Thibert v. Thibert, 2020 CarswellOnt 8441 (S.C.J.) Justice Pomerance was faced with the difficult question of how to ensure that the father, who had been charged with domestic assault but was not going to be able to be tried until at least 2021, could continue having in-person contact with the parties' young children after their local supervised access centre closed down because of COVID-1

Costs: The Shortest Newsletter Case You Will Ever See

Thomson v. Fleming, 2020 CarswellOnt 7581 (S.C.J.) - Baltman J

Pensions! How to Deal with Federal Pensions (in Ontario)!! Hooray!!!

Van Delst v. Hronowsky, 2020 CarswellOnt 7596 (C.A.) - Rouleau, Hourigan and Roberts JJ.A.

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