COVID and the race to the negotiating table

Gary Joseph  | Sep 2020

COVID-19 has spawned an enormous wave of child-related motions.


 The decision of Justice Heather McGee in Clemente v. O'Brien 2020 ONSC 3287 appears initially as just one more.


While not quite a COVID-motivated motion it becomes one as it caused the court to consider and opine (most elegantly in my humble view) on the various test(s) necessary to get before the court on a motion given the restrictions imposed on family law litigants by the shutdown.


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