
How not to behave during your divorce
Estate law is the ugliest, nastiest area of legal practice. The cupidity and grasping malevolence that often arise before the corpse is cold can make a misanthrope of a saint. Family law, however, takes a close second. Divorce in particular can bring out far more hostility, selfishness, bitterness, guile, and outright criminality than one would expect from the often lavish wedding ceremony and the solemn promise lasting «till death do us part». Fortunately for prospective litigants and for the legal profession, the Honourable Marvin Kurz of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in his recent decision Alsawwah v Afifi, 2020 ONSC 2883