Services Focused on Children, Parents and Families

Child Custody: a Court order that grants the rights and responsibilities of a parent in respect to a child

Child Access: a Court order that grants the right to visit and be visited by the child and the same right as a parent to make inquiries and to be given information of the child

Child Support: the obligation that every parent has to provide financial assistance for the unmarried child who is either a minor or is enrolled in a full time program of education, to the extent that the parent is capable of doing so

Child Protection: keeping families together or reuniting them if the Children's Aid Society gets involved

Adoption: a Court order that legally makes one person a child's parent

Services Focused on Adults

Cohabitation and Marriage Agreements: for couples wishing to regulate their rights and obligations during their conjugal relationship, or on termination of the conjugal relationship or on death, including property ownership, support and some child issues

Separations and Divorces: formally ending a spousal relationship

Separation Agreements: for couples, who cohabited or were married, wishing to regulate their rights and obligations including property ownership, support and child issues

Parenting Agreements: for couples wishing to regulate their rights and obligations pertaining to child issues

Spousal Support: the obligation, usually of limited duration, that every spouse has to provide financial assistance to their former spouse, to the extent that spouse is capable of doing so

Property Division: following a separation or divorce, the division of property between the former spouses, and which can include bank accounts, real estate, pensions, and other property

Solicitor Services

Wills & Estates: deciding and undertaking the distribution of one's property upon death

Powers of Attorney: giving someone else the legal authority to act for you

Affidavits and Statutory Declarations: used in specific situations, including travel permits and immigration matters

Openness Agreements: for regulating the rights between birth parents and the adoptive family or the adopted child