December 17^th – Ontario is strengthening and improving access to justice by making the family courts easier to use, more focused and more affordable.

Improvements to family justice will:

• Provide more information to families up front about the steps they need to take and the impact on children when relationships break down;
• Enhance opportunities to identify issues, ensure early disclosure and provide community referrals to better support families in reaching resolutions;
• Improve access to legal advice as well as less adversarial means of resolving issues such as mediation and collaborative family law; and,
• Streamline and simplify the steps involved for those cases that must go to court.

Family justice partners in two courts in Brampton and Milton will be the first to improve access to family justice and will develop initiatives to help reduce the stress on families and the time necessary to reach decision points in their family courts.

Read the legislation.

Find out more about family law in Ontario.