Canada: Family and Matrimonial

When a client approaches you about a potential separation, financial restructuring, or long-term planning, one of the most significant assets you will help them navigate is the matrimonial home.

Divorce is never easy, but in elite circles, the process carries unique factors and stress. Your finances and assets are more complex, your time is limited, and your privacy is essential.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice examined whether a woman with diminished capacity required a court-appointed guardian to manage her substantial property holdings, or if less restrictive alternatives could protect her interests while preserving her autonomy. The case centered on balancing the state's duty to protect vulnerable persons against an individual's fundamental right to self-determination when making decisions about tens of millions of dollars in assets.

Divorce is never easy, but in elite circles, the process carries unique factors and stress. Your finances and assets are more complex, your time is limited, and your privacy is essential.

Divorce proceedings in Ontario are typically public, but high-profile individuals and those seeking discretion have private alternatives. Three established methods—mediation-arbitration, collaborative family law, and private arbitration—allow couples to resolve their separation while keeping personal and financial details confidential and out of the public record.

In today’s evolving financial landscape, divorce isn’t just about dividing the family home or bank accounts.

BC Supreme Court considers Section 33 of WESA for the first time, granting an order vesting title to a spousal home in a surviving spouse and converting the interests of the other intestate heirs into registrable charges for later enforcement.

A Power of Attorney allows someone you trust to manage your financial and legal affairs when you cannot do so yourself.

Divorce is never easy, but in elite circles, the process carries unique factors and stress. Your finances and assets are more complex, your time is limited, and your privacy is essential.