Resources

Shawyer Family Law and Mediation provides links to the following resources from around the web to help its clients:

Child Support

Making Plans: A guide to parenting arrangements after separation or divorce
How to put your children first.
Publication from the Department of Justice, Canada
Parenting Plan Tool: A companion to Making Plans
Publication from the Department of Justice, Canada
Parenting Plan Guide and Parenting Plan Template. Tool from the Association of Family and Conciliation Court, Ontario Chapter to assist parents and their professional advisors in developing child-focused, realistic parenting plans.
Planning for Parenting Time
A guide for parents living apart
Parenting Coordination
Information for Parents and Lawyers
Successfully Parenting Apart: A Toolkit
A toolkit of some of the best resources available on co-parenting after separation or divorce.
Publication of the Canadian Bar Association.
More resources from the Association of Family and Conciliation Court, Ontario Chapter
- Parenting Plan Guide and Parenting Plan Template. Tool from the Association of Family and Conciliation Court, Ontario Chapter to assist parents and their professional advisors in developing child-focused, realistic parenting plans.
- Child Abductions
- Child Welfare
- Child and Spousal Support Information
- For Children and Parents
- Community Resources
- Court and Legal Services
- Domestic Violence
- Legislation
- Mediation and Counsellors/Therapists
- Parenting Plan and Communication Tools
- Separation and Divorce

Law Society Referral Service
- Offers a free 30-minute consultation with a lawyer.
- Call 1-855-947-5255 crisis line or if you do not have access to the internet.
JusticeNet
- A not-for-profit service helping people in need of legal expertise, whose income is too high to access legal aid and too low to afford standard legal fees. The legal professionals listed on this site have agreed to devote a portion of their practice to qualifying clients at reduced fees.
Ontario Family Law – Limited Scope Services project
- Family law limited scope services, also known as “unbundled” legal services, provide an innovative option between full representation and no representation at all. Under a limited scope retainer also known as “unbundling” agreement, a lawyer provides services for part, but not all, of a client’s legal matter.