This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from February 24, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Orders Money Mart to Pay $30,000 for Failure to Investigate Harassment http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/ontario-human-rights-tribunal-orders.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

#LegalTweetoftheDay: TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/34d844w8 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

Under Ontario law, legally adopted children are generally presumed to have the same rights as biological children for estate purposes.  A testator still has the freedom to make gifts and leave inheritances and specify that they are only for certain, specified children, if she chooses, so the question may depend on interpreting what the deceased intended and the wording of the Will. - Paul Adam, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge Merchan ruled that Trump again violated the gag order for the tenth time and threatened to jail Trump if he continued to violate it. #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://tinyurl.com/mup8udv6 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

The amount of support payable by separated parents in Ontario is strictly governed by the Child Support Guidelines. The Guidelines tables establish basic child support obligations and are based solely on the payor’s income, number of children, and Province of residence. Additional amounts may also be payable to cover special and extraordinary expenses incurred for a child’s daycare, medical care, education and extra-curricular activities. These additional expenses are shared by the parents in proportion to their respective incomes. - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office w ..read more

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Have you been removed from your family doctor’s patient list for visiting an Ontario walk-in clinic? #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/6mt95p8w - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

Can an employer fire an employee whose pregnancy is causing medical complications that affect her ability to perform her usual workplace duties? Employers have a duty to accommodate in those circumstances unless it would cause undue hardship. This accommodation may include changing job duties temporarily or providing time off work.  It is unlawful and discriminatory if an employer improperly fires, demotes, or lays off an employee due to a pregnancy - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Judge should be censured for street brawl, conflict of interest, New York judicial conduct commission says #law #legal #lawtwitter via @ABAJournal https://tinyurl.com/3wba5k96 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net ..read more

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 5, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: 'Harmful and discriminatory': Ontario school board investigating video showing comments staff member made towards student wearing a keffiyeh She peed in an Amsterdam alley, then waged a 9-year battle for 'urination equality' University of Toronto warns students that encampments will not be tolerated amid divestment calls Canada's divorce rate is the lowest in 50 years, but fewer people are getting married at all $9.5M sexual abuse class-action lawsuit against Calgary Stampede moves ..read more