Canada expected to see spike in divorces as courts reopen, lawyers say

TORONTO -- Canada's courts could see a surge in divorce proceedings once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, according to family lawyers.

"People aren't used to being at home all the time in their apartment or their house with kids. Now, they have to entertain the kids, help with the education, and their jobs are now triple if they do have a job and if they don't have a job, they have the stress of not earning income so all this adds to difficulty maintaining a positive relationship with your spouse," Nussbaum said.

"They have their own activities, they have their own friends, they have their own sort of social circle, just basically they were living two separate lives, and reasonably contently. Then all of a sudden, that is compressed and fundamentally changed and I have seen a significant number of those people... who have now realized that they no longer want to live in that sort of two parallel life scenario,” Hardwick said.

"Many couples do not have the communication and empathy skills required to spend 24/7 with each other. They need the 5 days a week of interacting with coworkers and occasional weekend time with friends and family apart from their spouse in order to make those times that they do spend with their spouse more engaging or in some cases more palatable," Zukerman said in an email to CTVNews.ca.

"Issues relating to support, whether or not that be supportive of child or supporting [a] spouse, and then we have property division issues, and the general premise at law is that you have to solve all of those issues," Hardwick said. "For people that are capable of negotiating either on their own or with the assistance of a lawyer, they will still be able to resolve those corollary issues, without any significant impact from COVID.

Amid the pandemic, El-Sayed said she has been trying to offer alternative solutions to her clients that have had divorce proceedings put on hold. "Family Law is unique because it is very relatable. All of us have parents, many of us have siblings, many of us know people who have gotten divorced, it's not something that's foreign to us. So people naturally think 'I know what to do, I know what custody is' -- biggest mistake that someone can make," Nussbaum said.

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