Recent British Columbia Supreme Court decision in which the father was in contempt of a court order.

Recent Saskatchewan Queen Bench decision in which RRSP income was not included in the father’s annual income for child support calculation purposes.

By order dated January 14, 2016, a general claims process was approved to determine claims against the g claims procedure was granted and the Order was made on March 14, 2016. The Order provided for a streamlined grievance claim procedure. The goal was to have such claims determined by August 31, 2016, which coincides with the conclusion of the SISP and the expiry of the DIP Financing.

The Supreme Court of Canada held that the ‘disturbed mind’ element underlying infanticide must be a disturbance caused by the mother’s not having fully recovered from giving birth or from lactating.

Recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice case in which a father attempted to sue the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa.

Recent support case which dealt with the distinction between a review provision and a variation based on material change.

Ontario court rules search of car trunk under Liquor Licence Act unlawful

Recent case in which the appropriate punishment for contempt was the refusal to hear a mother’s motions until she was in compliance.

Recent Ontario cases find harsh remand conditions result in extraordinary credit for pre-sentence custody

The case comment explores the issue of whether the Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) an asset that flows into the Estate (to be divided amongst the Estate’s residuary beneficiaries)? Or, to the person named by the Deceased, pre-death, as a beneficiary on the designation/declaration form?

In the Special Focus section of this newsletter, the authors review the decision Mayotte v. Ontario which interprets and applies the scope of the duty of honest performance as set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Bhasin v. Hrynew.

The failure to consider a relevant aggravating factor, such as the interprovincial impact of heroin trafficking in this instance, would justify appellate intervention with the sentence imposed.