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# Will Hutcheson, Toronto Family Lawyer  

416-466-4747 will@hutchesonlaw.ca @HutchesonLaw

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## Posts

- [BLOG](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/blog)
- [Mediation](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/blog) - Mediation I am pleased to announce that I am now a Certified Specialist in Mediation with both the Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario (FDRIO) and with the Ontario Association of Family Mediators (OAFM). I would be pleased to assist in mediating disputes about parenting time, parental decision making, child support, spousal support and equalization
- [Voice of the Child/Hear the Child Reports](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/blog) - I am pleased to announce that I am now doing Voice of Child (also called "Hear the Child") reports for children who are between 8 and 17 years old. I have been a lawyer with the Office of the Children's Lawyer since 2016. I have also completed specific training on private Hear the Child reports
- [Ways to Keep Your Legal Bill Down in Family Law](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/blog) - Ways to Keep Your Legal Bill Down in Family Law The cost of retaining a family law lawyer can range from cases where a client only needs a one hour consultation to straightforward and amicable separations where each party just needs some advice and someone to draft a Separation Agreement, which might be as little
- [How do you count time to know whether you meet the 40% rule for child support?](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/blog) - How do you count time to know whether you meet the 40% rule for child support? Before you read this post about one of the finer details of child support, you might want to read my explanation of how child support generally works. You can find that at https://hutchesonlaw.ca/?page_id=24 One of the questions that often
- [What Should I Know About Supervised Access?](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/blog) - One of the toughest issues in family law is how to deal with a case where one parent alleges that the children are not safe with the other parent. I see those allegations frequently in my cases. When that allegation is made there are two issues that then arise. 1) is it true, or at

## Pages

- [HOME](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/) - WILLIAM HUTCHESON is a Toronto-based FAMILY LAWYER. Will is experienced in dealing with all matters and issues that arise in the family context, including divorce, custody, access, spousal support, child support, equalization of property, child protection matters, marriage contracts and separation agreements.
- [WILLS AND POA](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/wills-and-poa) - Basic wills and POAs Although I am primarily a family law lawyer, I also do basic wills (there are some complex trust arrangements that you would need a specialized estates lawyer to do but I can handle wills for what most people want to do) and powers of attorney. Why do you need a will?
- [CONTACT](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/contact) - Contact Will to schedule a consultation: Phone 416-466-4747 Fax: 647-689-3303 Email: will@hutchesonlaw.ca 197 Spadina Avenue (just north of Queen) 4th Floor Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C8 Find Will on LinkedIn Twitter: @hutchesonlaw
- [ABOUT WILL HUTCHESON](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/about-will-hutcheson) - Will Hutcheson holds a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Queen’s University and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall and was called to the bar in 2008. Will was the 2006 winner of the Wilson Moot, the 2007 winner of the Gale Cup (the national mooting championships) and represented Canada in the 2007 Commonwealth Moot Championships
- [FAMILY LAW ISSUES](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/family-law-issues) - Mariage contracts/Pre-nups Child support Pre-Separation Dividing Property
- [Marriage contracts/pre-nups](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/marriage-contractspre-nups) - What Should I Be Thinking About When Considering a Marriage Contract (Commonly Called a “Pre-Nup”)? A marriage contract, or pre-nup agreement, is a contract that can be signed either before or during a marriage. The purpose is to agree to what will happen if the couple separates. The couple is therefore altering what the normal
- [How Does Child Support Work?](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/how-does-child-support-work) - Basic child support Child Support When There is an Equal or Roughly Equal Access Schedule Imputing and Calculating Income Basic child support The paradigm case for child support is where one parent clearly has the child or children with him or her more than 60% of the time and the other parent has a clear
- [Imputing and Calculating Income](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/imputing-and-calculating-income) - Not everybody has an income that is easy to calculate. If someone is self-employed and deducts personal expenses as though they are business expenses (whether such deductions amount to tax fraud or are just aggressive but legitimate tax claims) or earns income from a tax-free or tax-reduced source, you need to convert such circumstances into
- [Child Support When There is an Equal Access Schedule](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/child-support-when-there-is-an-equal-access-schedule) - If neither parent has the children more than 60% of the time (in other words, the parents each have the children on an equal access or roughly equal access schedule), child support is calculated differently. There is no automatic formula for calculating child support in such circumstances and the legislation and courts have provided various
- [Explaining Equalization of Property Calculation](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/explaining-equalization-of-property-calculation) - When married spouses separate (things are completely different in this area of the law for common law spouses) there are equalization of property rules that need to be dealt with. These rules are complex and advice from a family law lawyer should definitely be sought. The basic rule is that spouses share the growth in
- [What do I Need to Think About Before Separating From My Spouse or Partner?](https://hutchesonlaw.ca/what-do-i-need-to-think-about-before-separating-from-my-spouse-or-partner) - The short answer is, a lot of things. How your case starts - in an amicable manner or not, with the children living primarily with you or primarily with the other parent, with you leaving the house or your partner leaving the house or you separating but both still living in the house etc.

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