Separation/Divorce

With 4 in 10 marriages ending in divorce, it is an issue that affects a large number of Canadian families. There are more than 70,000 divorces every year in Canada of which approximately 11,500 are in the GTA. As of 2006, roughly 16% of all families in Canada were single-parent families or 1,414,060 in total. There are approximately 400,000 child support and spousal support cases currently in Canada, of which 186,000 are in Ontario.