LINDA'S RECORD OF PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: |
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2016
- Published Eden Cooking School Demonstrators' Recipes, First Edition, Toronto, on February 29 |
2012
- Began researching and presenting on health questions |
2010-2016
- Coordinated and demonstrated at the Eden Cooking School in Toronto |
2004
- Completed and mounted information providing web page
- Commenced lecturing on "The Colour Code" summer of 2004
- Conceived and organized WEBb's BNI Adventure Afternoon networking event
- Attained accreditation as certified Vegetarian Cooking School Instructor
- Director, Religious Liberties, Kingsview Village Church |
2003
- Director, Health and Temperance Department, Kingsview Village Church
- Revision of the Do You Know publication series
- Publication of "The Power of Personal Penmanship" in the BIG BOOK
- Received BNI's Master Networker Award |
2002
- Publication of "New Home Construction" why you need a lawyer, Toronto Business Times, June 2002
- Received BNI's MVP Award [Most Valuable Player] BNI Chapter Award of Excellence |
2001
- Director, Communications Department, and Church Clerk, Kingsview Village |
2000
- Trekked Antarctica and Easter Island and conclusion of the 7 Continents, 7 Oceans, Millennium around-the-world cruise and return to Toronto and law practice reinvigorated |
1999
- Commencement of travel sabbatical on the 7 Continents, 7 Oceans, Millennium around-the-world cruise |
1998
- Offered e-mail communication with clients
- Commenced feeding the homeless, religious liberties, and nursing home visitation programme |
1997
- Established new law in civil procedure in Lochwin v. Wasserman - see Explanatory Notes on Reported Cases 9, and the listing under Business Law, Corporate & Commercial, Trials and Civil Litigation |
1996
- Mounting of law practice's first web page |
1995
- Established new law in family law in Orzeck v. Orzeck, which clarifyies the parental obligation to pay child support to or for a child over the age of majority, who was not in communication with the parent - see Explanatory Notes on Reported Cases 10, and the listing under Family Law and Civil Litigation |
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Reported Cases
Areas of Law Considered in this case: - Family Law - Variation of Support - Child Support - Divorce Act - Child over the Age of Majority - Family Law Act, Family Support Plan Act
Orzeck v. Orzeck, [1995] O.J. No. 3443
My client, the mother of four children applied for an increase in child support for the three children who were still in high school and attending university. This was the first court appearance after the divorce some thirteen or so years earlier. I did not handle this client's divorce. Child support had been agreed upon in a separation agreement, and so it was necessary to prove a material change in circumstances in order to have the child support varied under s. 33 and 34 of the Family Law Act.
There was still tremendous acrimony between my client and her former spouse, which was evident from their demeanour both in the courtroom and in the witness stand.
The father had not had much contact with the children after he left the family to continue a relationship with one of his co-workers. He had made the child support payments required under the separation agreement, however. The father requested that the Court order that his child support obligations cease.
Responsibility for the father's lack of contact with the children was the subject of heated cross-examination of both parties, and all of the children.
At that time there was a conflict in the caselaw as to whether a father's obligation to continue support of children over the age of majority would continue if the children were not in contact with the father.
The trial judge ordered that the father did not have to pay child support for the three children over the age of 21, as he had had no meaningful relationship with them for over eight years.
However, the trial judge increased the child support payable for the youngest child until she reached 21.
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