Smith, 2017 CanLII 26483 (Immigration Appeal Division) A Family's Future Hanging in the Balance A Canadian woman wanted to sponsor her husband to come to Canada. They had two Canadian-born children together. Their marriage was genuine — even the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration conceded that point at the hearing. But there was a problem: more than seventeen years earlier, her husband had a brush with the law that resulted in a finding of inadmissibility on the grounds

Alsous v. Shahin, 2024 ONCA 358 (Court of Appeal for Ontario) When the Date of Separation Determines Everything In family law, the date of separation can have enormous financial consequences. It determines the valuation date for the division of property, the duration of spousal support obligations, and the scope of assets that fall within the equalization calculation. In this case, the parties fundamentally disagreed about when their marriage had ended — the wife argued it wa