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Shankar Law Office
- Jul 21, 2020
- 4 min
Imputation of Income for Support Purposes
This case addresses the issue of the imputation of income for support purposes.
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Shankar Law Office
- Jul 16, 2020
- 5 min
Analysis of the Assets on the Date of Separation
understand and decide on what the assets of the parties are on the separation date.
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Shankar Law Office
- Jul 14, 2020
- 4 min
Calculation of Amount Payable for Child Support
Cheng v Sze-This blog will again focus on the same case and on a new issue which relates to calculation of amount payable for child support.
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Shankar Law Office
- Jul 9, 2020
- 12 min
What The Valuation Date?
Often I am asked by clients in matrimonial cases as to what the valuation date is. Generally the valuation date is the date of separation
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Shankar Law Office
- Jun 30, 2020
- 13 min
Partition and Sale of a Matrimonial Home
the issue of partitioning and sale of a matrimonial home – when one party wants such a sale and the other party resists such a sale
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Shankar Law Office
- Jun 26, 2020
- 7 min
Imputation of Income or Under-Employment?
A good example of when income may be imputed when that party claims non-affordability to pay child support.
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Shankar Law Office
- Jun 23, 2020
- 12 min
Exclusive Possession vs. Nesting Order
exclusive possession or a relief for a nesting order for a matrimonial home
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Shankar Law Office
- May 27, 2020
- 3 min
Exclusive Possession of Family Home
guidance on the issue of exclusive possession of family property
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Shankar Law Office
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
Status Quo vs. Best Interests of the Children
What does the Court do when there are allegations against a spouse having long-standing custody of the children
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Shankar Law Office
- May 14, 2020
- 5 min
Valuation and separation dates - how are these decided?
How are separation dates decided? Also, why are these dates important? How does the Court decide on the valuation / separation date?
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Shankar Law Office
- Apr 24, 2020
- 3 min
CUSTODY AND ACCESS - DOES MY CHILD HAVE A VOICE?
I often have clients ask how their child’s voices may be heard by the Court.
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Shankar Law Office
- Apr 15, 2020
- 3 min
Don’t snatch a child and try to change status quo - IT WON’T WORK
Differences erupt between the parents about the child’s well being. The father calls the Children’s Aid Society to complain about the mother
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Shankar Law Office
- Mar 24, 2020
- 11 min
Support Payor Paying Less Than What They are Supposed to Pay Due to Their Own Conduct:
Imputing income to persons who are earning less than they should be earning due to their own reckless behaviour or misconduct
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Shankar Law Office
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
What is Status Quo and When is it Really Status Quo?
When the mother wants to leave with the child to start a new life, step grandmother calls up the CAS to do a welfare check on the child ...
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Shankar Law Office
- Feb 13, 2020
- 3 min
Undue Hardship in Paying Child Support For First v Second Family
Often enough people get together and have children then split. And again, the cycle repeats leaving the payor with two families to support
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Shankar Law Office
- Feb 8, 2020
- 4 min
Equalisation
some very useful principles related to how the limitation period applies to a claim for equalisation under the family law act
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Shankar Law Office
- Jan 21, 2020
- 4 min
When does a couple actually separate after they say they are separated?
The reality of life is that couples commit to be together for life time and yet, differences cropped up and inevitably they separate
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Shankar Law Office
- Jan 6, 2020
- 2 min
How do you effectively determine a payor’s income for support purposes?
Before a lawyer or judge can determine an appropriate amount of support for a person to pay, it is necessary to first determine income
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Shankar Law Office
- Dec 1, 2019
- 6 min
Spousal support: what does it mean and who qualifies?
legal principles of the meaning of the term spouse.
The legal principles - who is a spouse?:
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