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10/19/2026

10/16/2026

In an Ontario family case, a motion is not usually the first step. The rules push you toward a case conference first, and most cases settle there.

You can ask to be heard before that conference where there is urgency or hardship. But there are two things to do first, and skipping them is the most common reason these requests fail.

First, find out when a conference is actually available. Not what you assume, not what happened on another file. Ask. It matters more than people expect, because a situation that looks manageable when a conference is two days away looks very different when the next date is five months away.

Second, try to reach a short-term arrangement to get you through to that date. Not a full settlement. A temporary support figure, a temporary schedule, something workable for a few weeks. The court will not be told what was offered, but it will want to know whether you tried.

Then put both in the affidavit. Here is the earliest date. Here is what I proposed. Here is what came back. And here is what will have gone wrong before that date arrives.

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https://amehdilaw.com/can-a-family-court-hear-you-urgently-before-a-case-conference/

10/15/2026

10/13/2026

Two business owners agreed to work together on a large order and split the profits. They did it over text messages. A written agreement was drafted but never signed.

When one side walked away, the court held there was a binding contract anyway, and awarded the other side just over $10 million.

A signature is not what makes a contract. Agreement on the essentials is.

There is a detail in the decision most people miss. The claim was for a share of gross profits. The award was for a share of net — because net was the word used in the text where the split was agreed. That one word was worth about $4.6 million.

Assume that what you send is the deal.

Read the full post: https://amehdilaw.com/the-deal-was-never-signed-the-court-enforced-it-anyway/

10/05/2026

"Can I secretly record my ex?"

It's one of the most common questions in family law, and usually the person asking has already done it.

A recent Ontario decision admitted secretly recorded phone calls in a family case. It's being talked about as though the rules have changed. They haven't.

The judge did admit the recordings. But she explained carefully why the usual caution against secret recordings didn't apply in that case: the children were independent adults, there were no dependent children, and there were no good faith relations left between the spouses to preserve. The recordings went to allegations of abuse and coercive control — the kind of thing that happens in private, with no other witnesses.

If you have young children and an ongoing co-parenting relationship, those reasons don't apply to you. The factors the judge relied on are exactly the ones you don't have.

And getting a recording admitted isn't the same as it helping you. Judges notice who was recording, for how long, and what that says about them — in a case where you're asking to be trusted as a parent.

Get advice before you record. Not after.

New article on the blog.

https://amehdilaw.com/can-i-secretly-record-my-ex-the-answer-just-got-more-complicated/

09/25/2026

If the other side destroys evidence, what can a court actually do about it?

Canadian law has a name for the deliberate destruction of evidence, and there are four things a party has to prove: that it was destroyed on purpose, that a lawsuit was underway or reasonably expected at the time, that the evidence mattered, and that the destruction was aimed at the case.

Prove those, and the court starts from the position that the missing material would have hurt the person who got rid of it. They get a chance to show otherwise. If they cannot, the court has to draw a conclusion against them.

https://amehdilaw.com/when-the-other-side-destroys-the-evidence/