Not exact matches
No doubt taking a cue from Gordon v. Goertz, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 27, the
FLA requires, in section 37, that
agreements and orders respecting contact must be based only on the best interests of the child.
Under the Ontario Family Law Act (
FLA), you can register a separation
agreement and the support provisions of the
agreement will be treated as a court order.
If you just register your separation
agreement under the
FLA, you don't know that in the case of a later motion to change if the judge will follow the 2009 case or the later case.
It was no surprise that the judge wrote at paragraph 38: «An
agreement registered pursuant to the
FLA does not become an order under the Divorce Act.»