TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Ontario Women's Justice Network
Common Legal Questions for Women Leaving Abusive Relationships
Durham Community
Legal Clinic
Family Law Information Centre
Lawyer Referral Services
Legal Aid Ontario
Ontario Courts & Legal Forms
Federal Child Support Guidelines & Tables
Luke's Place Support & Resource Centre for Women &
Children
Making a Complaint to the Law
Society
Ontario Human Rights Commission
Guide to Ontario Courts
Ontario Legislative Assembly
Barbra Schlifer
Commemorative Clinic
disAbled Women's Network: Justice Issues & Resources
Court Prep
Sexual Assault is a Crime
Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
of the London Family Court Clinic
Law Society of Upper Canada
Ontario Women's Justice Network
for answers to the following questions click here
Common Legal Questions
for Women Leaving Abusive Relationships
1 • If I Leave, am I Giving Up All of My Property?
2 • If I Leave, will I be Charged with Abandonment?
3 • If I Leave, will the Court Automatically Give Him the Children?
4 • The Property is in His Name Only -- Does this Mean He Gets It All?
5 • If He Gets Charged and They Arrest Him, How Long Will He Stay in
Jail?
6 • If I Have No Money to Get a Lawyer, What Can I Do?
7 • Can My Partner Get Access to Children of Mine, even if He is Not
the Biological Father? Will He have to Pay Support for These Children?
8 • If My Partner Assaults Me in Front of the Children, Will This Have
an Impact on Who Gets Custody? What about Access?
9 • Why Should I Have to Leave the Home if I Have Not Done Anything
Wrong?
10 • What is Legal Separation?
11 • Do I Have to Tell Him Where the Children and I Are?
12 • What can I Take with Me When I Leave?
13 • Do I have to Testify Against Him even if I Don't Want To?
14 • What Could Happen to Me if I Fight Back in Self-Defense?
15 • If I Decide to Disappear so He'll Never Find Me, Will I be
Charged?
For an introduction to the law as it relates
to woman abuse, see the fact sheet
What is
Assault? (in PDF format)
Legal Information Services
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Criminal Injuries Compensation Board |
1-800-372-7463 |
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Durham Family Court Clinic |
(905) 436-6754 |
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Family Law Information Centre |
(905) 579-1988 Toll Free 1-877-294-6529 |
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Family Responsibility Office |
1-888-815-2757 |
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Lawyer’s Referral Service |
1-800-268-8326 |
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Legal Aid Oshawa |
(905) 576-2124 Toll Free 1-866-595-0563 |
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Office of the Children’s Lawyer |
1-416-314-8000 |
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Ontario Association for Family Mediation |
1-800-366-0335 |
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Victim Support Line, Ministry of the Attorney General |
1-888-579-2888 |
Tel: (905) 728-4968
email: info@vpcc.ca