Lawrence Brian Geffen

The Applicant sought various orders including vesting of the matrimonial home, child support, spousal support, section 7 expenses, life insurance, and a divorce.

The Respondent's pleadings were struck due to non-compliance with financial disclosure orders, and the matter proceeded as an uncontested trial.

The court imputed income to the Respondent and granted most of the Applicant's requests for support, equalization, and property transfer, but declined to compel the Respondent to facilitate the children's Romanian passports.

Costs were awarded to the Applicant on a full indemnity basis due to the Respondent's unreasonable conduct.

A child protection trial concerning two young children (ages 5 and 4) where the Children's Aid Society of Toronto sought crown wardship without access for purposes of adoption.

The mother opposed the application and sought return of the children to her care subject to a supervision order.

The court found the children in need of protection due to the mother's serious mental illness (schizophrenia), which resulted in multiple involuntary hospitalizations and periods of inability to care for the children.

Although the mother demonstrated some mental health stabilization and was cooperative with services, the court found she lacked insight into her condition, had no adequate safety plan for potential relapses, and demonstrated inadequate parenting skills despite therapeutic intervention.

The court ordered the children to be made crown wards without access, finding this was in the children's best interests given their need for certainty, stability, and permanence.

A summary judgment motion brought by the Children's Aid Society of Toronto seeking a finding that two children were in need of protection and should be made crown wards without access for adoption purposes.

The mother had experienced multiple severe mental health breakdowns requiring psychiatric hospitalization.

The court found no triable issue regarding the finding of need for protection but dismissed the society's summary judgment motion on disposition and access issues, finding genuine issues for trial regarding whether the mother had made sufficient mental health gains and whether the children's best interests would be served by return to her care under a supervision order.