Ask a lawyer at divorce time if s/he’s really got your interests at heart, and you’re dead. It’s too late. All over red rover. The time for getting in synch with your divorce lawyer was long long ago. And yet an amazing number of people hiring divorce attorneys find themselves strung out on a divorce [...]

The Courts in Canada, and most particularly the Family Law Courts, routinely forget about the fundamental rights of children according to FACT Director, Brian Jenkins, writing in the Mountain News today.
“Instead, we see both children and parents subjected to massive amounts of financial, emotional and psychological pressures encouraged by the courts and other government agencies – something that should truly be described as family violence.”

Divorcing couples and their advisers usually find plenty to argue about. But one topic that often slips through the net – with disastrous consequences – is the financial life after divorce.. the not-so-happy-ever-after.

Attorneys, tax and financial advisers and assorted other specialists drawn into the fray are rarely up to speed on any topic other than their own narrow specialty, and especially not on your spending patterns.

And therein lies the trap.