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In 1999, the Superior Court of Justice was renamed from the Ontario Court (General Division). The Superior Court is one of two divisions of the Court of Ontario. The other division is the lower court, the Ontario Court of Justice. [1] The Superior Court has three specialized branches: Divisional Court, Small Claims Court, and Family Court.
It was not until 1930, when Parliament passed the Divorce Act (Ontario), that the courts of Ontario were given jurisdiction to grant divorces and annulments. The law granting divorce under this law was according to the law of England as it stood at July 15, 1870 (and thus on the same footing as the prairie provinces and the territories). [20]
Ontario: 18, or 16 with written consent from both sets of parents. [19] Quebec: 18, or 16 with authorization from the courts. [20] New Brunswick: 18, or 16 with an affidavit of consent signed by parents or guardians. [21] Nova Scotia: 19, or 16 with a signed consent form. [22] Prince Edward Island: 18, or 16 with a consent form signed by parent ...
No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage that does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. [1] [2] Laws providing for no-fault divorce allow a family court to grant a divorce in response to a petition by either party of the marriage without requiring the petitioner to provide evidence that the defendant has committed a breach of the marital contract.
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is a publicly funded and publicly accountable non-profit corporation, responsible for administering the legal aid program in the province of Ontario, Canada. Through a toll-free number and multiple in-person locations such as courthouse offices, duty counsel and community legal clinics, the organization provides more ...
However, Madam Justice Ruth Mesbur of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in M.M. v J.H that the definition of "spouse" in the Divorce Act was unconstitutional. [100] [101] In June 2005, a lesbian couple residing in British Columbia obtained a similar ruling. [102] The Civil Marriage Act in 2005 amended the Divorce Act to permit same ...
The immediate family is a defined group of relations, used in rules or laws to determine which members of a person's family are affected by those rules. It normally includes a person's parents, siblings, spouse, and children. [1]
However his mother eventually filed for a no-fault divorce which the Supreme Court of Ontario granted in 1984; [33] his father had announced his intention to retire as prime minister a month earlier. [34] Eventually his parents came to an amicable joint-custody arrangement and learned to get along quite well.