Resources and Links for Family Law
DR. SANFORD SIEGEL - PSYCHOTHERAPIST & COUNSELLOR
Everyone could use emotional support and guidance when going through the separation process. I suggest you check out Dr. Sanford Siegel at www.ottawapsychotherapy.com Dr. Siegel is a psychotherapist who offers individual psychotherapy and counseling for people recently separated. In his practice, he also deals with the impact of early family and childhood issues in adulthood, navigating midlife transition, dealing with relationships, parenting issues, and enhancing career performance and creativity in work and life. Click the link to read one of Dr. Sanford Siegel's articles entitled: Navigating Relationship Breakup: Suffer Less, Gain Wisdom and Strength, Get on with Life
COLLABORATIVE LAW NETWORK
Web site of Ottawa's Collaborative Law organization. It has information about Collaborative Law and its' advantages as well as links to other Collaborative Law sites.
FAMILY LAW CENTRE
This excellent comprehensive Family Law web site is maintained by Toronto lawyer Gene C. Colman. Mr. Colman's own articles on a wide variety of Family Law topics go into great detail. Some articles are more geared to lawyers but non-lawyers will still find them of interest. In addition, Mr. Colman has created a forum for discussion of topical Family Law subjects by printing the views of his readers. This site explains the division of pension benefits between a federal pension plan member and his or her spouse upon relationship breakdown. You may also find many resource links to other Family Law and legal sites with a short, helpful description of those sites.
ORDERING A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
You will need an original Marriage Certificate when applying for a Divorce. It is ideal to have provided your Marriage Certificate to us prior to your first appointment, however if you are needing to order your certificate, it is only technically required by the signing of your Affidavit for Divorce, which is your second appointment. Clients are to order their own Marriage Certificates. You may visit https://www.orgforms.gov.on.ca/eForms/start.do for the ordering process.
GML ACTUARIAL SERVICES
Guy Martel is the actuary that does the pension valuations for my clients.
DIVORCEmate SUPPORT CALCULATOR DIVORCEmate has a new tool called "MySupportCalculator" which provides the Canadian public with very simple, straightforward child and/or spousal support calculations. The link is www.mysupportcalculator.ca However, it should be noted that legal advice is still needed because the Support Calculator does not allow for some of the even "normal" or standard expenses to be added to the calculations. This tool should be used for a very rough idea of child and spousal support.
FEDERAL CHILD SUPPORT GUIDELINES and ONTARIO CHILD SUPPORT TABLES
Visit the Federal Government's site and the provincial governments site for more information about guidelines.
CANADA PENSION PLAN CREDIT SPLITTING
Visit the Federal Government's site concerning Canada Pension Splitting upon divorce or separation. Click on "Forms" to access the appropriate form required.
PENSION BENEFITS DIVISION ACT
Federal Government's site
DIVORCE HELP FOR WOMEN
Information and resources to help women survive the divorce process.
PARENTING TIME CALENDAR
A great user-friendly program for easily creating parenting time (visitation) schedules with automatic features.
YOUR SOCIAL WORKER
Gary Direnfeld is a social worker in family matters. Please see his site for information on child development, parent-child work relations, marital and family therapy, custody and access recommendations and social work.